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Cardio for Health and Weight Management

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Using Mets to Quantify Energy Expenditure

The third method here is just aiming to meet the general physical activity guidelines that are provided by governing institutions and medical organizations. A paper by Pearson colleagues from 2018 explains a pretty simple physical activity guidelines. They recommend 150 to 300 weekly minutes of physical activity at moderate met levels between 3.0 and 5.9 Mets. Or they recommend getting 75 to 150 weekly minutes of exercise at what they call vigorous met levels above 6.0 or equal to or greater than 6.0.

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