Measuring your own fitness There are a number of benefits from being able to measure your own fitness: It can give you an idea of how fit – or unfit – you are in comparison with others of your own sex and age. You should be concerned if you find that you are average...
Another recap Total exercise dose can be calculated as MET minutes1 or MET hours. And one MET, or metabolic equivalent, is the rate at which energy is used by the body at rest. It is expressed in relation to body weight and is taken as 3.5ml of oxygen per minute per...
Measuring exercise dose Last week I explained the various ways of measuring dose of exercise and I gave some reasons for wanting to do so. For instance one use is to assess the balance between calories consumed as food and calories expended in physical activity. The...
Units of measurement There are many ways of measuring exercise dose and the the best unit of aerobic exercise is the Metabolic Equivalent or MET. This is a measure of the intensity of exercise or physical activity, not total dose. It reflects the rate at which oxygen...
VO2 and VO2max A few points from last week’s Blog as a recap: 1. Aerobic exercise means exercise fueled by oxygen. 2. The rate of oxygen usage is directly associated with the intensity of exercise. 3. The rate of oxygen use is usually expressed as millilitres...
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