Brady Holmer

um, speed at which you were moving that dumbbell, that would probably be categorized as like a vigorous intensity activity because it's purposeful movement.

And, you know, it's, you know, the force and the torque at which you're measuring your arms.

So that would be probably categorized as a vigorous intensity activity.

It doesn't necessarily matter whether you're moving physically forward or backward in space.

It's just like, what is the, um, speed or the intensity at which your body is kind of moving.

So, yeah, a little bit complicated, but, you know, that's the best way to describe it without.

They are similar.

This study, they said, you know, light activity, they gave some examples of it.

That would be just light household chores.

So even maybe you're, you know, emptying the dishwasher or sweeping or vacuuming or something like that.

That would be considered like light activity based on this study.

Moderate activity would be something like actively commuting.

So say you were

riding your bike leisurely to work or you were commuting to work, walking from the bus to work, going up some stairs, doing maybe some more moderate household chores.

And then vigorous, they gave some examples like, you know, outside playing with your kids or you're running or you're riding a bike or exercise.

Exercise would be categorized in that vigorous bout or that vigorous type of activity.

But really anything, you know, purposeful movement, I think is, you know, we're chatting offline.

Anything that would be purposeful movement, you're doing this for a reason of, you know, either to exercise or to get somewhere that would kind of be considered vigorous in this study.

So again, like the guidelines, maybe a little bit less intense than what people imagine when they think of vigorous, which I think is kind of cool because when we start to discuss the benefits that vigorous activity had, it goes to show just the power that even kind of purposeful movement, even if it's not high intensity interval training can have.

For sure.