This document proposes a correntropy induced dictionary pair learning framework for physical activity recognition using wearable sensors. It begins with an introduction to physical activity recognition and related work. It then presents the proposed methodology, which consists of two stages: data processing and recognition. The recognition stage involves jointly learning a synthesis dictionary and analysis dictionary based on the maximum correntropy criterion. This is done using an alternating direction method of multipliers combined with an iteratively reweighted method to solve the non-convex objective function. The framework is validated on physical activity recognition and intensity estimation tasks using a publicly available dataset. Experimental results show the correntropy induced dictionary learning approach achieves high accuracy using simple features and is competitive with other methods requiring prior knowledge