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Importance of rest and recovery
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We May Not Be Exercising Enough
The World Health Organization recommends 150 to 300 minutes of moderate to heavy exercise per week, which many of us are not doing as we overestimate our activity levels.
A vigorous exercise, where our heart rate reserve is more than 60 percent cannot be the same for every person, as one first needs to calculate their resting heart rate as well as the estimated maximum heart rate.
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Calculating Your Heart Rate: Normal And Maximum
- A healthy resting heart rate is usually in the range of 60 to 100 beats per minute (bpm) for an average adult.a
- The estimated maximum heart rate can be calculated by subtracting your age from the number 220. So if you are 4o years old right now, yo...
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Steps Per Minute
If the heart rate calculation sounds complicated, one can try a simple tracking method: The number of steps we take per minute.
To attain an intensive workout level, one has to keep the steps per minute above 100. This means that an average of 30 minutes activity per day is only effective ...
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Physical activity is defined as any bodily movement produced by skeletal muscles that requires energy expenditure. This includes exercise and activities undertaken while working, playing, carrying out household chores, travelling, and ...
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