Each body movement derived by activating skeletal muscles that results in energy consumption is considered to be physical activity. Unlike sports training, the basic objective of sports recreation is to raise and maintain the body's mental and physical abilities solely through fun and entertainment. Public Health benefits of physical activity can be classified into five categories: health, psychological, social, ecological and economic. Physical inactivity can lead to disturbed health, increasing health problems. Motivation can be explained as a group of individuals acting for a certain act, which needs to be activated to achieve the desired goal. Motives are the motives that direct man's actions to a certain goal, maintain that effect and intensify its intensity. Motivation for exercise makes a certain ratio between the psychological and physiological factors that stimulate the exerciser. Each presence of the motif is followed by appropriate physiological changes and is expressed as a certain state of tension that is a condition of action and direction towards a goal. The aim of this cross-sectional research is to examine the level of body activity of the local population after the opening of the Vukovar Swimming Pool and their motivation for exercise. The Croatian version of the EMI-2 questionnaire was applied for assessment of exercise motifs, while a questionnaire developed for the purpose of this research was used to assess the level of physical activity. The research has confirmed the differences in body activity level and motivation for exercising in terms of age of respondents.