All age groups benefit from physical activity.
Current recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention state that elementary school-aged children should accumulate at least 30 minutes of activity on all, or most, days of the week. Some of the activity should be in periods lasting 10 to 15 minutes or more and should include moderate to vigorous activity. Moderate activity is defined as activity that raises the heart rate to 50 to 75 percent of the maximum heart rate. This would be considered the low end of the target heart rate zone. This would be considered the high end of the target heart rate zone.