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"moderate-to-vigorous physical activity time might seem a quite high, at more than 2 hours a day, we defined it as more than 100 steps per minute. This equates
by freitzkriesler2 2y ago
"moderate-to-vigorous physical activity time might seem a quite high, at more than 2 hours a day, we defined it as more than 100 steps per minute. This equates to a brisk walk."
The scale here made me laugh.
So does actually going to the gym to break a sweat make it extreme physical activity?
- Swizec 2y agoI feel like all these articles/research are written from an extreme American perspective where people never move unless it’s from the couch to the car. You basically can’t exist in a European (and many others) lifestyle without getting this much exercise every day.
- Dunedan 2y agoNothing prevents somebody in Europe to stay at home without significant exercising all day, especially now as a lot of jobs are work-from-home.
- eastbound 2y agoI live in an area in France where the car reigns, and if I don’t do conscious exercise every day, I can end up with fewer than 1000 steps a day: Bed to kitchen, to the car, to meetings, then back home.
- kortilla 2y agoMost people in Europe would not qualify. The standard getting around the city paces are not fast enough for the threshold defined in this paper.
- OJFord 2y agoIt's right there in the comment above, 100 steps/minutes. Just over one and a half steps a second. It's not ambling around window shopping, but that's not really that brisk at all if you're going somewhere.
- freitzkriesler2 2y agoBasically the "averages" are so paheticly sedentary and unhealthy that getting any physical activity puts you in the outlier.
- naveen99 2y agoBreaking a sweat puts you above zone 2, which is basically extreme even by athlete standards and they spend less than 20% of their training time actually sweating.
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- freitzkriesler2 2y agoI don't know what athletes you're looking at that don't break a sweat training.