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Intensity Paradox—Low-Fit People Are Physically Most Active in Terms of Their Fitness
Depending on their cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF), people may perceive the exertion of incident physical activity (PA) differently. Therefore, the use of relative intensity thresholds based on individual fitness have been proposed to evaluate the accumulation of PA at different intensity levels. A...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8002087/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33804220 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21062063 |
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author | Vähä-Ypyä, Henri Sievänen, Harri Husu, Pauliina Tokola, Kari Vasankari, Tommi |
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description | Depending on their cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF), people may perceive the exertion of incident physical activity (PA) differently. Therefore, the use of relative intensity thresholds based on individual fitness have been proposed to evaluate the accumulation of PA at different intensity levels. A subsample of the FinFit2017-study, 1952 adults (803 men and 1149 women) aged 20–69 years, participated in this study. Their maximal oxygen uptake (VO(2)max) was predicted with a 6 min walk test, and they were instructed to wear a triaxial hip-worn accelerometer for one week. The participants were divided into CRF tertiles by five age groups and sex. Raw acceleration data were analyzed with the mean amplitude deviation method in 6 s epochs. Additionally, the data were smoothed with 1 min and 6 min exponential moving averages. The absolute intensity threshold for moderate activity was 3.0 metabolic equivalent (MET) and for vigorous 6.0 MET. Correspondingly, the relative thresholds were 40% and 60% of the oxygen uptake reserve. Participants in the lowest CRF tertile were the most active with relative thresholds, and participants in the highest CRF tertile were the most active with absolute thresholds. High-fit people easily reached the absolute thresholds, while people in the lowest CRF tertile had to utilize most of their aerobic capacity on a daily basis simply to keep up with their daily chores or peers. |
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spelling | pubmed-80020872021-03-28 Intensity Paradox—Low-Fit People Are Physically Most Active in Terms of Their Fitness Vähä-Ypyä, Henri Sievänen, Harri Husu, Pauliina Tokola, Kari Vasankari, Tommi Sensors (Basel) Communication Depending on their cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF), people may perceive the exertion of incident physical activity (PA) differently. Therefore, the use of relative intensity thresholds based on individual fitness have been proposed to evaluate the accumulation of PA at different intensity levels. A subsample of the FinFit2017-study, 1952 adults (803 men and 1149 women) aged 20–69 years, participated in this study. Their maximal oxygen uptake (VO(2)max) was predicted with a 6 min walk test, and they were instructed to wear a triaxial hip-worn accelerometer for one week. The participants were divided into CRF tertiles by five age groups and sex. Raw acceleration data were analyzed with the mean amplitude deviation method in 6 s epochs. Additionally, the data were smoothed with 1 min and 6 min exponential moving averages. The absolute intensity threshold for moderate activity was 3.0 metabolic equivalent (MET) and for vigorous 6.0 MET. Correspondingly, the relative thresholds were 40% and 60% of the oxygen uptake reserve. Participants in the lowest CRF tertile were the most active with relative thresholds, and participants in the highest CRF tertile were the most active with absolute thresholds. High-fit people easily reached the absolute thresholds, while people in the lowest CRF tertile had to utilize most of their aerobic capacity on a daily basis simply to keep up with their daily chores or peers. MDPI 2021-03-15 /pmc/articles/PMC8002087/ /pubmed/33804220 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21062063 Text en © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Communication Vähä-Ypyä, Henri Sievänen, Harri Husu, Pauliina Tokola, Kari Vasankari, Tommi Intensity Paradox—Low-Fit People Are Physically Most Active in Terms of Their Fitness |
title | Intensity Paradox—Low-Fit People Are Physically Most Active in Terms of Their Fitness |
title_full | Intensity Paradox—Low-Fit People Are Physically Most Active in Terms of Their Fitness |
title_fullStr | Intensity Paradox—Low-Fit People Are Physically Most Active in Terms of Their Fitness |
title_full_unstemmed | Intensity Paradox—Low-Fit People Are Physically Most Active in Terms of Their Fitness |
title_short | Intensity Paradox—Low-Fit People Are Physically Most Active in Terms of Their Fitness |
title_sort | intensity paradox—low-fit people are physically most active in terms of their fitness |
topic | Communication |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8002087/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33804220 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21062063 |
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