Abstract: Objective To investigate the current status of physical activity of college students in a university of Hebei province and improve college students’ status of physical activities and put forward corresponding proposals. Methods 424 college students from Heibei University were conducted with retrospective investigation on status of physical activity in the last 1 week randomly. Results In the last one week, the time spent on daily life physical activity, leisure-time physical activity and high physical activity were respectively 5.71, 32.86 and 165minutes per day for male college students and 10, 17.14 and 90 minutes for female ones, there was significant difference between them(P<0.001). The energies spent on daily life physical activity, leisure-time physical activity and high physical activity were respectively 200, 960 and 1 320 METs per week for male students, and 320, 518, 720 METs per week for female college students, signiifcant difference was also found between them(P<0.01). The survey showed that almost 60%students were in high active degree. 77.14%of the male students was in high active degree while female was 53.92%, 19.43% of female students was mainly in sitting situation while male was 6.67%. Conclusion High physical activity of female college students is signiifcantly lower than that of male. It is urgent to explore the key factors for physical activity of college students.

Key words: college student, physical activity, MET