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Now we need someone to combine these two to give us a picture the whole parameter space. Wouldn't a 3d graph by awesome here? Premature death rate on the Z ax
by tempestn 12y ago
Now we need someone to combine these two to give us a picture the whole parameter space. Wouldn't a 3d graph by awesome here? Premature death rate on the Z axis, minutes of weekly exercise and percentage that is beyond a given intensity threshold on the X and Y? You could then compare that to the same thing, except using average intensity as the metric instead of amount of time spent over a threshold.
450 minutes per week was optimal when it was mostly light exercise, and intense exercise is more beneficial, with diminishing returns after 30 minutes per week. But if you do a higher percentage of intense exercise, does the optimal time per week decrease? (Or maybe even increase as you get beyond a certain fitness threshold! Although I somewhat doubt that.)
- niels_olson 12y agoReading the abstracts, the measurement the US study uses for "dosing" is metabolic-equivalent hours per week. The Australian study uses "vigorous". If you want to grade your activities of choice to METs, there are various sources to do estimate them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolic_equivalent http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolic_equivalent