Simple exercise can limit harmful weight gain
New research shows that physical activity equivalent to 100 PAI a week can counteract excessive weight gain.
PAI stands for Personal Activity Intelligence and tracks how physically active you are throughout the week. You can measure PAI with just about any device that can measure heart rate.
The activity metric has been developed by the Cardiac Exercise Research Group (CERG) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) under the leadership of NTNU Professor Ulrik Wisløff.
Previously, we found that 100 PAI a week can give us a longer and healthier life without cardiovascular disease. Our new study shows that PAI can also help people maintain a healthy body weight.
Doing This One Simple Thing Will Keep Your Weight Down, Says New Study
Doing This One Simple Thing Will Keep Your Weight Down, Says New Study
As the inventor of the concept of the fitness age and a physiologist responsible for no shortage of breakthroughs in the field of exercise research Ulrik Wisløff, Ph.D., is someone who commands a lot of attention in health and fitness circles. More recently, Wisløff unveiled a concept he calls Personal Activity Intelligence (PAI), which is essentially an algorithm that produces a single score that not only rates your physical activity but also tells you how much exercise is needed for maximum protection from cardiovascular disease mortality and other lifestyle disease mortality. In the simplest terms, the better your PAI score, the healthier and fitter you ll be, and the longer you ll live.
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