|
Physical Demand
|
Met Level
|
Examples of similar activity intensity
|
| Sedentary to Light |
0 - 3.5 |
Light house cleaning, washing dishes, serving food, food shopping, sitting, standing, computer work. |
| Medium |
3.6 - 6.3 |
House work (mopping, scrubbing), health club exercising, treadmill work, stretching, yoga, walk/run-play with children, aerobic class, dancing, carrying bucket/wood, auto body repair, shoveling snow, golf (carrying clubs). |
| Heavy to Very Heavy |
> 6.4 |
Calisthenics (push up, pull up, sit up, vigorous effort), carrying groceries upstairs, shoveling coal, bailing hay, fire fighting, sawing by hand, splitting wood. |