The benefits and barriers of physical activity among college students play an important role in how to create a physically active environment (Brown, 2005). Many students feel the best benefit to exercising is to improve their physical appearance (English, 2007). Students have expressed that some of the barriers to physical activity are that recreational facilities are too far away, or the centers did have not activities in which students wanted to engage (Brown, 2005). Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to provide a brief overview of the benefits and challenges of physical activity for college students.