Saturday, 4 Sep 2021
GOLF!!
The place of golf in helping maintain physical activity and good health is a somewhat…
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Saturday, 28 Aug 2021
How good are official exercise recommendations?
Last week I gave you the Department of Health’s recommendations for exercise – This week I am looking at just…
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Saturday, 21 Aug 2021
How much exercise?
So how much exercise should you take? The effectiveness of exercise is proportional to its intensity and total dose. From…
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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, 31 Jul 2021
Measuring Your Own Fitness
Measuring your own fitness There are a number of benefits from being able to measure your own fitness: It can…
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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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