Saturday, 27 Jul 2024

Measuring your own fitness level

In my previous blog I explained the importance of measuring physical fitness level – so seldom done by the medical…

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Sunday, 14 Jul 2024

Measuring physical fitness

The value of knowing physical fitness level The level of an individual’s aerobic or cardio-respiratory fitness (CRF) is the best…

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Saturday, 14 Aug 2021

How often, how hard, how long?

How much exercise do we need? Here’s a quick guide – more or less applicable to any endurance exercise. The…

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Saturday, 7 Aug 2021

The meaning of your VO2max

Your VO2max Last week I explained how you could measure your own fitness level as your VO2max. Since you are…

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Saturday, 24 Jul 2021

Energy expenditure, health and fitness

Another recap Total exercise dose can be calculated as MET minutes1 or MET hours. And one MET, or metabolic equivalent,…

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Saturday, 17 Jul 2021

Energy Cost of Different Activities

Measuring exercise dose Last week I explained the various ways of measuring dose of exercise and I gave some reasons…

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Saturday, 10 Jul 2021

Measuring the Dose of Exercise

Units of measurement There are many ways of measuring exercise dose and the the best unit of aerobic exercise is…

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Saturday, 3 Jul 2021

OXYGEN UPTAKE AND TRANSPORT

VO2 and VO2max A few points from last week’s Blog as a recap: 1. Aerobic exercise means exercise fueled by oxygen.…

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Saturday, 26 Jun 2021

OXYGEN AND VO2max

Fueling exercise I have described the importance of oxygen for fueling exertion, but it was a long time ago –…

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Saturday, 24 Oct 2020

EXERCISE AND LUNG DISEASE

Lung disease The secret of longevity is to keep breathing. Sophie Tucker Lung disease encompasses a large collection of widely…

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