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150. What’s the “Best” Exercise?

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What Exercises Do the Most Good?

Exercise is probably best measured in terms of the total number of calories that you burn. The efficiency of exercise, in terms of calories burned per unit of time is commonly measured in something called the metabolic equivalent score (mets) And they rank all the exercises that you could imagine doing from the most intensive to the least intensive.

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