Brady Holmer

For sure.

Yeah, I think this will be an interesting new structure kind of for the podcast, new for, you know, some of our episodes.

And I'm excited to see how it goes.

Excited to talk about this study.

I think it was really a eye opening one in my mind.

So, yeah, let's get into it.

Yeah, and that was kind of like the biggest, not surprise to me because I've known about this stuff for a long time, but when you really dig into it, it's like, what's the foundation of these recommendations?

It is based on the idea of the thing called metabolic equivalent or metabolic equivalent of task.

People maybe will have heard that referred to as METS or M-E-T-S.

And basically it is just, what's the caloric expenditure of these various different activities?

If you're doing a light activity,

that might be somewhere between, you know, like zero to three mets, moderate activity, three to six mets, vigorous activity over six mets.

And it's basically saying, what's your oxygen consumption or your, you know, calorie burn during these activities.

And so by that logic, yes, moderate activity, you burn, you know, that might be three to six mets.

Well, if you're going harder than that, that's double the mets, double the caloric expenditure.

So you need half as much physical activity to get the same health benefit as

the more moderate intensity activity.

So that kind of formed the foundation of that either 75 to 150 minutes of vigorous, 150 to 300 minutes of moderate.

And it makes sense logically, but as you just said, you know, well, for what?

What health outcomes are we looking at?