Aerobic or "cardio" activities. These make your heart beat faster and make you breathe harder, such as brisk walking, riding a bike, or running. They strengthen your heart and lungs and build up your endurance. Strength training activities. These make your muscles work against, or "resist," something.

Physical activity can be divided into the following types: Aerobic: like running, swimming, or going for a brisk walk. This can be broken down further into low, moderate, and vigorous intensity. Strengthening: such as pushups, lifting weights, or digging in the garden. Flexibility: for example, stretching exercises or yoga.

Here are the three main types of exercise: Aerobic exercise is exercise that uses oxygen and raises your heart rate significantly, so that you are consistently improving your heart muscle, and burning calories effectively. Anaerobic exercise is high intensity exercise usually performed for less than two minutes.

The three main types of physical activity are aerobic, muscle strengthening, and bone strengthening. Balance and flexibility activities are also beneficial.

That said, many types of exercise activities can be classified into four main groups, namely (5) Endurance exercise aka Aerobic training Strength training Balance exercises Flexibility exercises