Hey, so standard recommendation for aerobic activity is: 150-300 mins of Moderate aerobic exercise or 75-150 of Vigorous, per weeek. Moderate = 3-6 METs and Vigorous is >6 METs. Some activity examples listed cycling at 15 km/h as 5.8 METs. My question is once you adapt to current cardio workload, your conditioning will get better, and that activity now won't be equivalent to 5.8 METs (since it's easier for you to do it now right?), so it will be equivalent to less METs, and you won't get to that requires weekly dose. Maybe I'm wrong about this, maybe METs aren't dependant on conditioning, otherwise you'd need to do more and more activity just to reach required weekly dose of METs. Same with HR, standard knowledge is that brisk walking puts you at 60-70% HR, but once you get more conditioned, it might not even put you at 60%. How to measure this stuff once you get more conditioned?
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