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I had many centurions in my family on the side and they walk that’s all they did was walk because their jobs were farmers. They were also out nature state food that they grew and so the foods were Whole Foods so their mental health was better being out in nature, they also drink tea, plain regular tea with sugar, and some of them drink some coffee, some of them smoked in the early ages and gave it up and some didn’t drink anything at all
Question on the nice graphs for the steps, but is the grey area not the confidence interval, and if yes, that would mean not that we do no know what is going on, but the confidence in what would go on goes down. Also, the widening intervalls would mean, less people out of the participants fall into this area, with many people managing 100 steps, a bit less 5000, and decent chunk less 25k.
@@sciencefliestothemoon2305 Exactly the right interpretation! We’re not sure what happens, best guess is not much, and the reason is that only a handful of people do 25k steps every day.
I am 74 with a resting heartrate of 55 doing about 600 mins cycling / week split equally between zone 2 and above. Favourite Garmin stat is fitness age at 61.5!
My Apple Watch 4 consistently estimates my VO2max to be below average, at around 35, which is weird since I exercise quite a lot. Then I did a proper VO2max test and my result was above 50. So yes, those wearables' VO2max results can be quite off the mark.
@@cyc00000 No it is not, 50 is a good VO2max. According to wiki "The average untrained healthy male has a V̇O2 max of approximately 35-40 mL/(kg·min).[11][12] The average untrained healthy female has a V̇O2 max of approximately 27-31 mL/(kg·min)." Don't confuse the VO2@max numbers for genetic elite from Olympic Games with what 99% of population is actualy capable of.
@@cyc00000 Not so for an average person, particularly above age 45. By all charts, 50 is considered fit for men at almost any age. For an athlete, yes it's low.
My resting heart rate is 49 average over a year and my sleeping average is 43 and dips to 36 when sleeping. I cycle about 5 hours a week on average mostly high intensity. But when i used to vape my resting heart rate was 63 and i still did the same amount of exercise then. If you use nicotine daily and care for your health, you know what to do
He didn't cover what actually begins to happen down in the under-40 club. The lowered risk starts going away rather quickly, sometimes requiring monitoring / intervention in highly-conditioned athletes. The body really doesn't like that state of affairs, either. The old conventional wisdom about "balance in everything" remains excellent advice, and maybe even more so in a world highly influenced by the nut-job voices in social media.
At the age of 51 my resting heart rate is in the 50s. I used to see high 40s about 3 years back but that not the case now. I do cardio at least 3 days a week every single week since mid February 2015. Which was the year my father passed away from diabetes. Seeing all he went through his final year from surgeries, amputations, dementia .. was what got me started and kept me going.
@@DrAndrewSteele Thanks. It has been a long journey between cardio, diet changes & work to improve sleep. For anyone who has had a similar experience to what my father went through (or other health condition that scared you) my advice is the changes you make to improve your health will not happen over a short period of time. If you try to make too many changes at once you make it too difficult to be able to accomplish your goals.
@@drescherjm I think this is great advice, and applies beyond the realm of improving health too-doing too much at once and therefore failing at all of it is seriously demotivating. Having the resolve to make lots of small changes over a long time can have its challenges too because it can feel slow, but probably has far better results. Great to have some motivational reading in the RUclips comments for a change. :)
@@drescherjm Something similar motivated me, its been 2 months since I started a healthy lifestyle, I'll continue to do it. i used to fail earlier, as I made too many changes suddenly and jumped straight to running, but this time I started with just 6k steps daily target, and now it has became a habit, and I've started including running sessions.
@@devanshsharma5212 Keep up the hard work! I do agree that making too many changes at once can be difficult. I have at times had to back off a bit when this happens. I am still at my cardio doing cycling, inline skating and treadmill running. My diet is not as good recently as I have been through some additional difficult times. I will have to get back working on that.
This video was recommended to me by RUclips. I thought it was a joke to start with; two blokes on garden chairs with half an upside down skeleton and one ridiculous moustache. However, very interesting. Learnt a lot, thanks.
Haha, the topsy-turvy world of RUclips, where two blokes on garden chairs are legit and yet those inhabiting flashy podcast studios are often, well… Thanks for clicking! :)
I'm 63 and spend about 11 hours a week at the gym doing a variety of aerobic, core, and strength classes. Plus I take frequent brisk walks of anywhere between 2-5 miles. I don't have a wearable and don't have a particular desire for one. All I know is I feel effin' fantastic. I have no idea what people my age mean when they say they feel old. I did just take my resting pulse rate and it was 59 bpm. It would be cool to know my VO2max, though.
I’m 1.92m tall, and there is no way I can complete 10000 steps in only an hour. My mom and I walk together a lot, for a time we used the same Fitbit model. She consistently gained 50% or more more steps than me. I’m curious if that consideration shows up in any of these studies.
That’s a really good question! I’ve never seen a study that takes that into account (though step counting is definitely not my expertise!) and I suspect because most people are about the same height (‘most’ and ‘about’ are doing a lot of work there…) it probably comes out in the wash…unless you’re super-tall or -short!. Probably a good reason to go with my favourite stat, Active Zone Minutes. :)
Completely disregarded the impact of maximum moustache volume on health outcomes 😋 There must have been a reason all the old-school strongmen had exquisite moustaches😁
I remember hearing that while the VO2 max estimate on watches wasn't necessarily accurate, as long as it was precise (ie same person same conditions gets same result) it was still a worthwhile metric to see how it changed for you over time. so you don't care about the absolute number, but your trend
There is value in a relative number. As long as better is better and worse is worse. And like mentioned in the video, seeing progress has a positive psychological effect.
Almost all the times my watch has thought I'm exercising hard enough to report a VO2 max have been when I've been carrying heavy grocery bags home from the supermarket, making me seem a lot less fit than I am. Or at least, that's my story and I'm sticking to it!
The Dr. makes a good point regarding wearable device data. It’s better to view it as relative rather than absolute measures of fitness. So, if your watch tells you your fitness is improving over the weeks that’s probably good enough, but don’t think the actual number it’s giving you is absolutely right.
FYI active zone minutes don't work so well if you have anxiety. I easily get over 100 every day I'm in office or anywhere where i socialize a lot. Talking to people raises my heart rate quite a bit 😅😬
7:47 10K total steps aligns with a 60% risk reduction. 7:52 10K purposeful step only gives a 48% risk reduction, yet presumably their total steps were higher than 10K? This doesn’t make sense, there must be a missing factor somewhere.
as a 25 year old smoker and non exerciser my resting heart rate was high 70s in June 2022, as of December 2022 my resting heart rate is high 50s. It’s strange because in that time period i haven’t changed a single thing, still smoking and not exercising, eating the same meals and weighing the same
220 - age shoud be taken with more than a grain of salt (it sucks) and zone 5 is absolutely not an all-out sprint. If you did a very short exercise all-out, your heart rate doesn’t reach high, and if you did a long endurance event, you don’t have the energy to get close to max HR for the long time. (sweet spot is ~20 min.) At high heart rates, you should ideally be measuring with the much more accurate chest-based or arm-based heart rate monitors. I really liked the message from the video about the importance of heart health! We need more people to do exercise, because it’s sad that walking is considered exercise, and zone 2 is considered vigorous, though it is something you should be able to hold all day. (Realistically, when people do more than walking, they go too hard anyway, way past z2.)
As a young adult, above average fitness, more accidental than training, I was textbook 72bpm resting. Once I started winter climbing I really noticed things changing. Was 47/48-ish bpm sometimes in my late 30s and 40s. Now same age as rock n roll and had a rather inactive year for training and hill days but 49-53 bpm resting. Going straight out now for 6000 steps up and down that hill before bed. 😎
Zone 2 training isn't about heart rate, it is about lactate (below LT1, first lactate threshold). Going as hard as possible, while being able to hold a conversation, is the best way to determine it. Which is nice because anyone can do it, even without a heart rate monitor. Other nice thing about zone 2 is that it leads to improvements over time. Most people would start at 70% of their maximum HR, and then, after a few years, move up to 80-85% of maximum heart rate. Which is huge. Unfortunately, lots of people still train in zone 2 by heart rate, which means they will remain forever there without noticing any metabolic adaptations.
7:11 Hang on. Increasing your daily steps to 10000 gives you an adjusted hazard ratio of -0.59 (great!). Yet 10000 *_purposeful_* steps drops that only down to -0.47 (not quite so great...). So, either those graphs are telling us that 'daily steps' is quite a bit better than 'purposeful steps' - or those graphs have been done wrong. Which one is it? It's odd for you to get excited about something that's apparently contradicting the point you're making....
I did think about going into that but thought it would overcomplicate things… The issue is probably down to which model they use for each graph (ie whether they consider total steps, or split them up, which will change the stats a bit), plus the practical point that it’s very hard to eg get 10,000 incidental steps unless you have a very inconveniently laid-out house! More practical for most people is just to purposely integrate walking into their day. :)
On VO2 max accuracy. How do you think the accuracy of these measurements would be affected if taken during cycling with a power meter as you then have a pretty exact measurement of the work load you are doing?
The steps taken around the house are not that important? Please explain why? During the winter 8 do not spend so much time outside and easily clock my 10,000 steps around the house, as I have a spacious house. Is it really not good enough? And why? What am I doing wrong?
It’s not that the fact of being inside matters! As we discuss in the video, the paper looked at ‘purposeful steps’ which I think they defined at > 40 steps/minute, ie walking somewhere rather than pottering about. If you’re striding from one end of the big house to the other these might well be ‘purposeful’ as defined in the research, so don’t panic! And, as I hope we communicated in the video, steps are a good guideline but probably not the best value to optimise for your health. :)
Well the answer to this title is obvious based on the guest Rohin...the size of your 'stache is what matters most. I suspect having a pelvis for a head as demonstrated by the background model might factor in as well.
I would say use the watch a week every month, learn from it, apply what you've learned, do the same the next month until you've got good habits going, then just use it every few months for maintenance. Don't use it all the time and let it become neurotic. Remember one part of why lower heart rate is associated with health is that it's associated with less stress, so don't cancel out a percentage of your gains by ruminating over numbers every day I also want to say that you can get these for about 15 euro, they are accessible for people who can't access expensive health fads
Garmin had me at a VO2max of 57 for running, which I was pretty proud of as a 37 yo. Then I did a proper test on a treadmill, worried it that the results would be well below, but turned out it was almost 70! In that moment I realised something. I've always been a homebody nightowl guy who liked to party a bit much, now I'm up at dawn on the weekend training for a marathon PB, and I don't intend to ever stop
@@briandriscoll1480 that's true, and I think I have full gassing it on my bike after every stop light to thank for a lot of it. Unbeknownst to me I was probably doing many vo2max type efforts every day for a decade before I started looking closer at these things
I usually wear a chest strap when it comes to measuring heart rate when exercising. Like Rohan, I don't pay attention to it during exercise (I either use feel for low intensity cardio, or pace/power targets for higher intensity intervals, or for sprints I just max out), but I do like collecting data almost pathologically. I'm not sure how accurate chest straps are however. I assume they are much more accurate than the optical sensors on watches, since they are detecting the electrical signals that cause the heart to beat, but I don't know if they are perfect. As a side note, the 220-age has always been funny to me. I am 38, and hit a 206 heart rate in a recent interval running session (measured with a chest strap). I like to imagine I have the heart of a 14 year old, but in reality I suspect I have a smaller than average heart compared to my size (1.99m/90kg) and it has simply adapted to beat faster to supply the same flow rate than a larger heart would manage with a lower heart rate. I've heart stories of professional rowers of the same age with max heart rates (and lactate threshold heart rates) varying by 40+ BPM too. It just seems highly personalised. Anyway, I came here from Medlife Crisis, and have smashed that like subscribe button!
Welcome, thank for the sub! From what I’ve read, chest straps are essentially as accurate as medical-grade devices they’ve been tested against so pretty trustworthy. You might enjoy the previous video in this series, ‘Can you trust your smartwatch?’ :)
220 minus age is totally bogus. In my thirties I could barely attain 160. I was a cycling time triallist in my younger days with quite a few wins. It’s about volume delivered, not RPM.
Devices are all over the place as far as max HR. At 67, I can easily crank out 180 without max effort, on my Garmin Epix. On my Garmin Fenix 6 a couple years ago, I hit 190 while cycling. Are those numbers real? Well, 25 years ago in a lab VO2max test, my HR maxxed out at 186, at which point further intense effort became impossible, and I felt like crap afterward. I find it hard to believe I'm still there, 25 years later.
Has anyone taken into account people who died under the buses and how many steps did they take? I would say in some circumstances more steps brings you closer to death.
As a reasonably fit athlete (in my 40s far from elite) I do find this fascinating. I’ve always had a very low resting hr since I started training in my teens at less than 40 and a max of 187 with a functional threshold of 170. Nice to know I’m protected against a lot
@@patrickkalin4437 it’s from cycling, my functional threshold power is around 270 watts, I can hold that along with a heart rate of 170bpm for an hour.
Most doctors do not consider that athletes can have a resting heart rate even lower than 30 per minute. My heart rate now is 36, which is not even included in the graph shown at the beginning of the video. This is a problem when we are to be diagnosed for desies. A resting hart rate of 80 indicates more than twice our baseline but we may be regarded as healthy and missing the diagnosis of potentially dangerous infections!
@@marty197666 I don't know my VO2max & functional threshold; I haven't measured it. But since I returned to mountainbiking, my resting heart rate is somewhere between 60 bmp & below.
I was told in a chiropractic new patient training to get 30 minutes/2 miles of deliberate walking time daily. I have followed that pretty deliberately for 20+years doing 2-4 miles most days. My resting HR remains about 60bpm. (I try to walk 2.5 miles a day minimum at 17.5 minutes per mile).
Apple watch is the best by far from multiple tests, comparing many watches. Best sensors by far also for sleep tracking. Just expensive and short battery, unless you can afford the ultra edition.
Agree to an extent…the heart rate measurements are very accurate during exercise but very infrequent during all-day tracking, and I’m loath to not collect a bit more data! They are good watches though, and none I’ve tried/looked into seem to be perfect… :)
Cycling is probably my main form of aerobic exercise. I find it practically impossible to keep to a zone 2/3 heart rate, generally going close to, or above, my calculated maximum heart rate (220-68=152), without really feeling like I am working very hard. Is this normal? I should probably mention that I cycle-commuted 18km each way daily for 30 years.
Interesting angle to using fitness devices👍 We need more studies, but no doubt sleep quality is extremely important for our health! If you are serious about pulse training, you always wear a pulse strap. It gets the max pulse right and definitely gives better precision on the VO2Max estimate.
One question that hunts me from time to time is : if people that have very bad health can't even walk it , unless they deal first with their internal biology through nutrition ,supplementation and medication first . Would this mean that those who walk to get these benefits are already quite healthy and with no major nutritional deficiencies , no bad metabolism , well balenced hormones and very low toxicity levels .
Not to be "that guy" but you don't veryify which device was more accurate when measuring your maximum HR. From the graphs 188, and 186 are pretty close enough if these represent your actual maximum HR.🤓
2:50 My theory, from a non-medical person, is that the lower the heart rate the better the health. When I got COVID I noticed it because I went from my normal 50-55 bpm to 80 bpm resting (that was basically my only symptom), so when something is going wrong in the body and it needs to spend more energy for it, the heart rate increases. Also, it could be due to the metabolism. The lower the metabolism, the lower the heart rate, that I think it's my case since it started to go down when I started intermittent fasting (I started with 16/8 and now I'm more like 20/4, but if I have to cheat one or two days, I cheat 😂). When the metabolism lowers, the cells don't multiply as fast so the probability of cancer lowers and maybe the autophagy mechanism is triggered as well, so cancerous cells are killed sooner. Again, this is a theory from someone just curious about medicine and I could be wrong in many of the things I've said!
Regarding how long it takes to walk 10,000 steps, a brisk, purposeful walk for a normal person might be up to 120 steps per minute. An exceptionally vigorous, highly trained walker may be able to achieve 140 to 145 steps per minute. So this is ~84 minutes for a normal person walking fast to as little as 69 minutes for an exceptional athlete walking very hard. If you are running, then getting just over 10k steps an hour is normal.
Yes step counters are truly crap at the 'incidental' steps as you said. I bought a cheap-ish Mi-band just to see what the fuss was about. Like you I was pleasantly surprised how accurate it was when walking around outside. But after a few days I realised how shit they were, because it counted 50 steps from me standing at my kitchen counter making a coffee, and another 400 steps just while I showered (probably from washing my hair I guess?) This isn't a small over-count. Imagine you don't go out and walk much that day, but it's registering thousands of steps while you're making the bed, hanging washing or chopping vegetables. It's show more false positives than actual real steps. Gah, somewhat useless things.
So the best measure of exercise is????? Yes, VO2 Max!!!! Nothing is more critical. It is a reflection of the work done or exercise over time. The minutes of exercise you do is irrelevant. The research says grow you VO2 max. Everything else is NOT relevant.
@@alanmalarkey HRV is a non specific marker of stress. It correlates inversely with the latter. A low HRV, assuming it has dropped from your baseline, means something is not quite right with your health and your body is struggling to fix this something. The issue could be lack of sleep, psychological stress, impending illness (like a flu starting up) or a chronic health problem or something else. The practical aspect is this. If the HRV has dropped, look for a cause but also be aware that it’s a sign to take it easy that day. This might mean having a light workout rather than a heavy one, more sleep etc..
Ah nice video ! Just one negative note : Exercise ,exercise ,exercise ....don't bother about your very bad diet by design that is disregarded by doctors and health authorities .If you have nutritional deficiencies , leaky gut , low Level chronic inflammation ,different toxicities like heavy metals , mold , xenoestrogens ,parabens ... , It will all wither away magically by the power of exercise . But actually there is research that exercise with a bad diet doesn't do much☝️.
I don't think I've ever gotten an accurate measure of resting heart rate because I ALWAYS get nervous/performance anxiety when it's time to take it, even if just a little and even if I'm taking it myself in a calm environment. So I feel my pulse quicken. I've been resisting getting any kind of wearable but the fact that it's always on and I can't always be nervous about the measurement might mean I get an actually accurate measure.
I get terrible white-coat hypertension and tachycardia (ie my blood pressure and pulse measurements in the doctor’s office are much worse than at home!) so I feel you!!
@@DrAndrewSteele Same here with the white coat syndrome! One thing I've found that helps it be a little more accurate at the doctor's office is to hold/rest your wrist across your chest just at heart level (it's how it's supposed to be taken especially with wrist monitors). Also if you can get there a little early and relax after driving. And you're dead on Ridley with wearing it all the time you can't always be nervous, IMO it's worth knowing and tracking
@@ThePetalesharo Good tips! Alas, to add to the white coat hypertension, once a nurse took my blood pressure after forcing me to run down a corridor carrying my bike so relaxation wasn’t an option!!
How does this relate to max heart rate? Im 42 years old. Resting heartrate is 40. Can go upto 45 and down 35 depending on my training. Bad sleep and alcohol make it shoot up. Lots of resting and low intensiteit training make it drop. My max heart rate is also on the low end. 175 to 180.
People want to obsess over these things but dividing things up by quartiles or quintiles, of any of these metrics, is about the highest level of exactitude you can really expect or put some stock in. I've read that resting heart rate can be genetically low or high but a change toward lower can be an indicator of fitness. Drastic changes should be run by a doctor though as it can go down or up for non-fitness related reasons. Comparisons between individuals may not work even though people want to do that so bad! It may be an internally consistent metric though. So many want it to be an externally consistent metric. It isn't at this level of testing/measuring. This is a lot like bodyfat testing. You might actually have a 3% drop but you might not really know your actual bodyfat percentage with the same accuracy as your estimation of drop. It's still useful to compare yourself to yourself but less good to compare yourself to others which is what so many want. I'm suggesting that might be something to deemphasize and for more than one reason.
Yes, I almost mentioned this but then decided to keep things simple because most devices do a measurement while you’re active! The H10 (and I think a few other devices) seem to use some combination of resting heart rate and heart rate variability, but from the papers I saw they tend to be (even) less accurate… I’ve been playing around with the one on my H10 and I’ve not quite worked out why but my measurements vary wildly!
@@DrAndrewSteele I don’t know how accurate it is, but I find it tends to match what Garmin predicts. The problem with most of the VO2 estimates is that they need the person to input their training volume on a 1-10 scale. Do you know if VO2 estimates using a power meter on a bike/trainer are more accurate? Garmin will give a separate VO2 estimate for running and cycling and they often don’t match for me.
@@Marty72 I wonder if this might be the issue…I reduced my training volume in the Polar app (after a few busy months) and my VO2 max dropped by 15! LOL. I’ve not seen any data for bikes/trainers specifically, but my guess is they’d suffer from most of the same problems of indirect measurement-they might be a bit better because they know exactly how hard you’re working because they set the resistance etc, but they still don’t know any specifics of your physiology…
What does risk/probability of death mean? I was wondering because 50% less likely to die this week and 50% less likely to ever die is a big difference. Looked it up and it’s the likelihood that someone will die within the next year. This is typically stratified by age or gender, etc.
So much slow talk, and missing facts about apple watch which also counts active minutes, and leaves without saying what is the healthy resting heart rate ?
But if you have had these devices for years and constantly hovering around 55-60 vo2 surely you know that you should have reasonable vo2 if tested in a lab.
tss isn't a good indicator, it doesn't meassure heart rate and especially saturation levels compared to my blood pressure meter (medisana) and my BPM/SAT meter. Smartwatches are not accurate.
You can rack up steps with very little effort - this ‘goal’ is junk and has fooled loads of people thinking they are doing lots for their fitness as their daily steps total is > 10000, but in reality it was all low intensity junk steps. I’ve seen tests showing short brisk walks or even shorter hiit sessions do considerably more in a far more efficient manner.
I'm a 57yr old woman who likes to cycle. My heart rate rests in the low 40s when I'm just sitting there (on the sofa, not my bike!) (I feel great but nevertheless it freaks me out) and my max hr cycle up a really steep hill is 188bpm. I don't drink wine or eat late any more because it makes me wake in the night with a 130bpm hr. Very very scary.
great video! I hated the part about resting heartrate, but that moustache made up for it by a factor of 100. I'd pretty much assumed that the masculinity requirements to manifest such a beast were lost to history.
Great video very interesting, I'd also say that the amount of time sleeping is another very important metric that the watches can measure. Like all the data wearables measure it's not always the most precise. I question its accuracy in measure the different zones of sleep and quantifying the quality with a sleep score but people often neglect sleep when its really important for maintaining and improving health and fitness.
Yes, lots of them do actually! Some of them give it a strange name (eg Fitbit calls it ‘cardio fitness score’ for some reason), but it’s often there somewhere if you poke around in the app.
fitbit charge 6 is significantly more precise. next time do the tests with up to date hardware and watches that has up to date algorithm to evaluate data. its as good as the apple watch 8 or 9.
The Charge 6 didn’t exist when I made this video. :) Hopefully I’ll make an update at some point soon though so feel free to subscribe if you don’t want to miss it!
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I had many centurions in my family on the side and they walk that’s all they did was walk because their jobs were farmers. They were also out nature state food that they grew and so the foods were Whole Foods so their mental health was better being out in nature, they also drink tea, plain regular tea with sugar, and some of them drink some coffee, some of them smoked in the early ages and gave it up and some didn’t drink anything at all
Question on the nice graphs for the steps, but is the grey area not the confidence interval, and if yes, that would mean not that we do no know what is going on, but the confidence in what would go on goes down. Also, the widening intervalls would mean, less people out of the participants fall into this area, with many people managing 100 steps, a bit less 5000, and decent chunk less 25k.
@@sciencefliestothemoon2305 Exactly the right interpretation! We’re not sure what happens, best guess is not much, and the reason is that only a handful of people do 25k steps every day.
@@DrAndrewSteele those lazy people.😁
Would be great to get a larger sample for the higher step group.
Biology has a habit to U-curve on the extremes.
The most important number for your health is your age: the higher it gets the longer you live.
No, the higher it gets the shorter live.
@@marktapley7571Weird. My 80 year old grandpa has lived longer than my 37 year old grandma who I never got to meet.
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@@MedlifeCrisis Possibly the strongest moustache game in the yt and medical community as well.
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I am 74 with a resting heartrate of 55 doing about 600 mins cycling / week split equally between zone 2 and above. Favourite Garmin stat is fitness age at 61.5!
doing 10 h per week is way, way more than the average 74 yo. So 61 probably isn't far off.
That moustache. Wow. Not enough comments appreciate it's magnificence.
Lol, looks so fake.
@@micker9830 Agreed. How can a practicing surgeon, who has to wear surgical masks all the time, keep such a large moustache?
My Apple Watch 4 consistently estimates my VO2max to be below average, at around 35, which is weird since I exercise quite a lot. Then I did a proper VO2max test and my result was above 50. So yes, those wearables' VO2max results can be quite off the mark.
Shave your arms where you wear the watch and wear it higher on the arm
@@Fridelain Thanks for the tip!
Nuts, 50 is still pretty low for a fit person, but yeah thats way out.
@@cyc00000 No it is not, 50 is a good VO2max. According to wiki "The average untrained healthy male has a V̇O2 max of approximately 35-40 mL/(kg·min).[11][12] The average untrained healthy female has a V̇O2 max of approximately 27-31 mL/(kg·min)." Don't confuse the VO2@max numbers for genetic elite from Olympic Games with what 99% of population is actualy capable of.
@@cyc00000 Not so for an average person, particularly above age 45. By all charts, 50 is considered fit for men at almost any age. For an athlete, yes it's low.
My resting heart rate is 49 average over a year and my sleeping average is 43 and dips to 36 when sleeping. I cycle about 5 hours a week on average mostly high intensity. But when i used to vape my resting heart rate was 63 and i still did the same amount of exercise then. If you use nicotine daily and care for your health, you know what to do
And after you switched to cocaine, did things get better 😀 ?
Or, rather, what not to do!
He didn't cover what actually begins to happen down in the under-40 club. The lowered risk starts going away rather quickly, sometimes requiring monitoring / intervention in highly-conditioned athletes. The body really doesn't like that state of affairs, either. The old conventional wisdom about "balance in everything" remains excellent advice, and maybe even more so in a world highly influenced by the nut-job voices in social media.
Age?
I think it's more about pulling vapor or smoke into your lungs than the nicotine.
Took me a while to notice that something was wrong with the skeleton 😂
At the age of 51 my resting heart rate is in the 50s. I used to see high 40s about 3 years back but that not the case now. I do cardio at least 3 days a week every single week since mid February 2015. Which was the year my father passed away from diabetes. Seeing all he went through his final year from surgeries, amputations, dementia .. was what got me started and kept me going.
Very sorry to hear about the source of the motivation, but great to hear about the end result. Keep up the good work!
@@DrAndrewSteele Thanks. It has been a long journey between cardio, diet changes & work to improve sleep. For anyone who has had a similar experience to what my father went through (or other health condition that scared you) my advice is the changes you make to improve your health will not happen over a short period of time. If you try to make too many changes at once you make it too difficult to be able to accomplish your goals.
@@drescherjm I think this is great advice, and applies beyond the realm of improving health too-doing too much at once and therefore failing at all of it is seriously demotivating. Having the resolve to make lots of small changes over a long time can have its challenges too because it can feel slow, but probably has far better results.
Great to have some motivational reading in the RUclips comments for a change. :)
@@drescherjm Something similar motivated me, its been 2 months since I started a healthy lifestyle, I'll continue to do it.
i used to fail earlier, as I made too many changes suddenly and jumped straight to running, but this time I started with just 6k steps daily target, and now it has became a habit, and I've started including running sessions.
@@devanshsharma5212 Keep up the hard work! I do agree that making too many changes at once can be difficult. I have at times had to back off a bit when this happens. I am still at my cardio doing cycling, inline skating and treadmill running. My diet is not as good recently as I have been through some additional difficult times. I will have to get back working on that.
This video was recommended to me by RUclips. I thought it was a joke to start with; two blokes on garden chairs with half an upside down skeleton and one ridiculous moustache. However, very interesting. Learnt a lot, thanks.
Haha, the topsy-turvy world of RUclips, where two blokes on garden chairs are legit and yet those inhabiting flashy podcast studios are often, well…
Thanks for clicking! :)
I haven’t finished watching but can attest to the fact that Rohan is very very funny, as well as being a clever medic.
the moustache and the chairs makes all this serious info look like a joke
@ 0:40 "favorite RUclips cardiologist" ghastly set with rummage sale chairs and skeleton oddly propped between speakers
Having a Giant moustache restricts your breathing therefore increasing blood pressure.
I'm 63 and spend about 11 hours a week at the gym doing a variety of aerobic, core, and strength classes. Plus I take frequent brisk walks of anywhere between 2-5 miles. I don't have a wearable and don't have a particular desire for one. All I know is I feel effin' fantastic. I have no idea what people my age mean when they say they feel old. I did just take my resting pulse rate and it was 59 bpm. It would be cool to know my VO2max, though.
I’m 1.92m tall, and there is no way I can complete 10000 steps in only an hour. My mom and I walk together a lot, for a time we used the same Fitbit model. She consistently gained 50% or more more steps than me. I’m curious if that consideration shows up in any of these studies.
That’s a really good question! I’ve never seen a study that takes that into account (though step counting is definitely not my expertise!) and I suspect because most people are about the same height (‘most’ and ‘about’ are doing a lot of work there…) it probably comes out in the wash…unless you’re super-tall or -short!. Probably a good reason to go with my favourite stat, Active Zone Minutes. :)
Run for an hour and you can.
Of course you can! Try harder
Make smaller steps :-)
Ignore 10k steps. It's marketing by a Japanese fitness company. The only thing your heart cares about is time in zones.
Completely disregarded the impact of maximum moustache volume on health outcomes 😋
There must have been a reason all the old-school strongmen had exquisite moustaches😁
If that’s a relevant factor, Rohin will live to 100…and I’ve only got a few years left!!
I remember hearing that while the VO2 max estimate on watches wasn't necessarily accurate, as long as it was precise (ie same person same conditions gets same result) it was still a worthwhile metric to see how it changed for you over time. so you don't care about the absolute number, but your trend
There is value in a relative number. As long as better is better and worse is worse. And like mentioned in the video, seeing progress has a positive psychological effect.
Being internally consistent is about all you can hope for at this time.
That's not valueless though as you said.
My resting HR is 27bpm, and garmin's VO2 is maxxed out at '60+'
I expect to live to 500
Scientists say the first person to live to be 200 may already have been born. I believe i am that person.
Almost all the times my watch has thought I'm exercising hard enough to report a VO2 max have been when I've been carrying heavy grocery bags home from the supermarket, making me seem a lot less fit than I am. Or at least, that's my story and I'm sticking to it!
Haha!
The Dr. makes a good point regarding wearable device data. It’s better to view it as relative rather than absolute measures of fitness. So, if your watch tells you your fitness is improving over the weeks that’s probably good enough, but don’t think the actual number it’s giving you is absolutely right.
Hopefully it's internally consistent.
I think a lot of bodyfat testing is like that too.
Just note the change.
FYI active zone minutes don't work so well if you have anxiety. I easily get over 100 every day I'm in office or anywhere where i socialize a lot. Talking to people raises my heart rate quite a bit 😅😬
7:47 10K total steps aligns with a 60% risk reduction.
7:52 10K purposeful step only gives a 48% risk reduction, yet presumably their total steps were higher than 10K?
This doesn’t make sense, there must be a missing factor somewhere.
as a 25 year old smoker and non exerciser my resting heart rate was high 70s in June 2022, as of December 2022 my resting heart rate is high 50s. It’s strange because in that time period i haven’t changed a single thing, still smoking and not exercising, eating the same meals and weighing the same
Is it possible that you changed the measurement equipment?
220 - age shoud be taken with more than a grain of salt (it sucks)
and zone 5 is absolutely not an all-out sprint. If you did a very short exercise all-out, your heart rate doesn’t reach high, and if you did a long endurance event, you don’t have the energy to get close to max HR for the long time. (sweet spot is ~20 min.) At high heart rates, you should ideally be measuring with the much more accurate chest-based or arm-based heart rate monitors.
I really liked the message from the video about the importance of heart health! We need more people to do exercise, because it’s sad that walking is considered exercise, and zone 2 is considered vigorous, though it is something you should be able to hold all day. (Realistically, when people do more than walking, they go too hard anyway, way past z2.)
As a young adult, above average fitness, more accidental than training, I was textbook 72bpm resting. Once I started winter climbing I really noticed things changing. Was 47/48-ish bpm sometimes in my late 30s and 40s. Now same age as rock n roll and had a rather inactive year for training and hill days but 49-53 bpm resting. Going straight out now for 6000 steps up and down that hill before bed. 😎
My resting heart rate is equal to or below 60 bpm since I returned to mountainbiking in 2020. I'm 40 years old now.
On days that I don't ride my bike, I walk at least 6,000 steps.
For the graph at around 3:00, I wonder if XKCD 2311 is applicable?
60-100??? Now like 40-70. Have some standards for people. We're all athletes
Zone 2 training isn't about heart rate, it is about lactate (below LT1, first lactate threshold). Going as hard as possible, while being able to hold a conversation, is the best way to determine it. Which is nice because anyone can do it, even without a heart rate monitor. Other nice thing about zone 2 is that it leads to improvements over time. Most people would start at 70% of their maximum HR, and then, after a few years, move up to 80-85% of maximum heart rate. Which is huge. Unfortunately, lots of people still train in zone 2 by heart rate, which means they will remain forever there without noticing any metabolic adaptations.
7:11 Hang on. Increasing your daily steps to 10000 gives you an adjusted hazard ratio of -0.59 (great!). Yet 10000 *_purposeful_* steps drops that only down to -0.47 (not quite so great...). So, either those graphs are telling us that 'daily steps' is quite a bit better than 'purposeful steps' - or those graphs have been done wrong. Which one is it? It's odd for you to get excited about something that's apparently contradicting the point you're making....
I did think about going into that but thought it would overcomplicate things… The issue is probably down to which model they use for each graph (ie whether they consider total steps, or split them up, which will change the stats a bit), plus the practical point that it’s very hard to eg get 10,000 incidental steps unless you have a very inconveniently laid-out house! More practical for most people is just to purposely integrate walking into their day. :)
On VO2 max accuracy. How do you think the accuracy of these measurements would be affected if taken during cycling with a power meter as you then have a pretty exact measurement of the work load you are doing?
I was about to ask the same
Why can't I focus on the video and instead constantly wonder if it is a real moustache...?
The steps taken around the house are not that important? Please explain why? During the winter 8 do not spend so much time outside and easily clock my 10,000 steps around the house, as I have a spacious house. Is it really not good enough? And why? What am I doing wrong?
It’s not that the fact of being inside matters! As we discuss in the video, the paper looked at ‘purposeful steps’ which I think they defined at > 40 steps/minute, ie walking somewhere rather than pottering about. If you’re striding from one end of the big house to the other these might well be ‘purposeful’ as defined in the research, so don’t panic! And, as I hope we communicated in the video, steps are a good guideline but probably not the best value to optimise for your health. :)
The liver is my favourite organ ,,,just saying
Well the answer to this title is obvious based on the guest Rohin...the size of your 'stache is what matters most. I suspect having a pelvis for a head as demonstrated by the background model might factor in as well.
I would say use the watch a week every month, learn from it, apply what you've learned, do the same the next month until you've got good habits going, then just use it every few months for maintenance. Don't use it all the time and let it become neurotic. Remember one part of why lower heart rate is associated with health is that it's associated with less stress, so don't cancel out a percentage of your gains by ruminating over numbers every day
I also want to say that you can get these for about 15 euro, they are accessible for people who can't access expensive health fads
I ❤️ rohin bringing his weird skeleton to this video
Garmin had me at a VO2max of 57 for running, which I was pretty proud of as a 37 yo. Then I did a proper test on a treadmill, worried it that the results would be well below, but turned out it was almost 70! In that moment I realised something. I've always been a homebody nightowl guy who liked to party a bit much, now I'm up at dawn on the weekend training for a marathon PB, and I don't intend to ever stop
70 puts you into Olympic track territory, or at least very close. You didn't get that from partying.
@@briandriscoll1480 that's true, and I think I have full gassing it on my bike after every stop light to thank for a lot of it. Unbeknownst to me I was probably doing many vo2max type efforts every day for a decade before I started looking closer at these things
@@aeriegrove Why did you ride a bike so much?
What are some of your running times/paces?
I usually wear a chest strap when it comes to measuring heart rate when exercising. Like Rohan, I don't pay attention to it during exercise (I either use feel for low intensity cardio, or pace/power targets for higher intensity intervals, or for sprints I just max out), but I do like collecting data almost pathologically.
I'm not sure how accurate chest straps are however. I assume they are much more accurate than the optical sensors on watches, since they are detecting the electrical signals that cause the heart to beat, but I don't know if they are perfect.
As a side note, the 220-age has always been funny to me. I am 38, and hit a 206 heart rate in a recent interval running session (measured with a chest strap). I like to imagine I have the heart of a 14 year old, but in reality I suspect I have a smaller than average heart compared to my size (1.99m/90kg) and it has simply adapted to beat faster to supply the same flow rate than a larger heart would manage with a lower heart rate. I've heart stories of professional rowers of the same age with max heart rates (and lactate threshold heart rates) varying by 40+ BPM too. It just seems highly personalised.
Anyway, I came here from Medlife Crisis, and have smashed that like subscribe button!
Welcome, thank for the sub!
From what I’ve read, chest straps are essentially as accurate as medical-grade devices they’ve been tested against so pretty trustworthy. You might enjoy the previous video in this series, ‘Can you trust your smartwatch?’ :)
220 minus age is totally bogus. In my thirties I could barely attain 160.
I was a cycling time triallist in my younger days with quite a few wins. It’s about volume delivered, not RPM.
Devices are all over the place as far as max HR. At 67, I can easily crank out 180 without max effort, on my Garmin Epix. On my Garmin Fenix 6 a couple years ago, I hit 190 while cycling. Are those numbers real? Well, 25 years ago in a lab VO2max test, my HR maxxed out at 186, at which point further intense effort became impossible, and I felt like crap afterward. I find it hard to believe I'm still there, 25 years later.
The most important number for my health is my bank balance. Stress is real 😂
Haha fair!!
Has anyone taken into account people who died under the buses and how many steps did they take? I would say in some circumstances more steps brings you closer to death.
As a longevity expert, I recommend not walking in the road
As a reasonably fit athlete (in my 40s far from elite) I do find this fascinating. I’ve always had a very low resting hr since I started training in my teens at less than 40 and a max of 187 with a functional threshold of 170. Nice to know I’m protected against a lot
How would you describe functional threshold?
@@patrickkalin4437 it’s from cycling, my functional threshold power is around 270 watts, I can hold that along with a heart rate of 170bpm for an hour.
Most doctors do not consider that athletes can have a resting heart rate even lower than 30 per minute. My heart rate now is 36, which is not even included in the graph shown at the beginning of the video. This is a problem when we are to be diagnosed for desies. A resting hart rate of 80 indicates more than twice our baseline but we may be regarded as healthy and missing the diagnosis of potentially dangerous infections!
@@marty197666 I don't know my VO2max & functional threshold; I haven't measured it. But since I returned to mountainbiking, my resting heart rate is somewhere between 60 bmp & below.
I was told in a chiropractic new patient training to get 30 minutes/2 miles of deliberate walking time daily. I have followed that pretty deliberately for 20+years doing 2-4 miles most days. My resting HR remains about 60bpm. (I try to walk 2.5 miles a day minimum at 17.5 minutes per mile).
Chiropractic??? Medlife Crisis not a fan 😅
Dr Francis has an insanely dope mustache
Risk of death increases with age.
11:22 The skeleton's head is funny
So are its hips, lol.
@@mjbates Yes, I think so
Apple watch is the best by far from multiple tests, comparing many watches. Best sensors by far also for sleep tracking. Just expensive and short battery, unless you can afford the ultra edition.
Agree to an extent…the heart rate measurements are very accurate during exercise but very infrequent during all-day tracking, and I’m loath to not collect a bit more data! They are good watches though, and none I’ve tried/looked into seem to be perfect… :)
Cycling is probably my main form of aerobic exercise. I find it practically impossible to keep to a zone 2/3 heart rate, generally going close to, or above, my calculated maximum heart rate (220-68=152), without really feeling like I am working very hard. Is this normal? I should probably mention that I cycle-commuted 18km each way daily for 30 years.
Dr. Francis, the 1890s called, they think you're rocking that mustache.
I am honestly surprised given that face furniture we went a whole video about anti-ageing and he didn’t once try to sell me literal snake oil
That skeleton is worrying…
I hadn't seen the glorious moustache. Wonderful.
Interesting angle to using fitness devices👍
We need more studies, but no doubt sleep quality is extremely important for our health!
If you are serious about pulse training, you always wear a pulse strap. It gets the max pulse right and definitely gives better precision on the VO2Max estimate.
One question that hunts me from time to time is : if people that have very bad health can't even walk it , unless they deal first with their internal biology through nutrition ,supplementation and medication first .
Would this mean that those who walk to get these benefits are already quite healthy and with no major nutritional deficiencies , no bad metabolism , well balenced hormones and very low toxicity levels .
In a way the fake VO2 max from watches is more important, bcs it measures overall efficiency, of which V02 max is only one component.
Not to be "that guy" but you don't veryify which device was more accurate when measuring your maximum HR. From the graphs 188, and 186 are pretty close enough if these represent your actual maximum HR.🤓
2:50 My theory, from a non-medical person, is that the lower the heart rate the better the health. When I got COVID I noticed it because I went from my normal 50-55 bpm to 80 bpm resting (that was basically my only symptom), so when something is going wrong in the body and it needs to spend more energy for it, the heart rate increases. Also, it could be due to the metabolism. The lower the metabolism, the lower the heart rate, that I think it's my case since it started to go down when I started intermittent fasting (I started with 16/8 and now I'm more like 20/4, but if I have to cheat one or two days, I cheat 😂). When the metabolism lowers, the cells don't multiply as fast so the probability of cancer lowers and maybe the autophagy mechanism is triggered as well, so cancerous cells are killed sooner. Again, this is a theory from someone just curious about medicine and I could be wrong in many of the things I've said!
I noticed this when I had covid too…with almost the same numbers! 70s and 80s bpm _while sleeping_ was pretty wild, and I had some crazy covid dreams…
Regarding how long it takes to walk 10,000 steps, a brisk, purposeful walk for a normal person might be up to 120 steps per minute. An exceptionally vigorous, highly trained walker may be able to achieve 140 to 145 steps per minute. So this is ~84 minutes for a normal person walking fast to as little as 69 minutes for an exceptional athlete walking very hard. If you are running, then getting just over 10k steps an hour is normal.
Calorie Defecit + Increased Fitness = Increased Longevity. Who would have thought it? (that's what VO2max essentially measures)
Yes step counters are truly crap at the 'incidental' steps as you said. I bought a cheap-ish Mi-band just to see what the fuss was about. Like you I was pleasantly surprised how accurate it was when walking around outside. But after a few days I realised how shit they were, because it counted 50 steps from me standing at my kitchen counter making a coffee, and another 400 steps just while I showered (probably from washing my hair I guess?)
This isn't a small over-count. Imagine you don't go out and walk much that day, but it's registering thousands of steps while you're making the bed, hanging washing or chopping vegetables. It's show more false positives than actual real steps. Gah, somewhat useless things.
I honestly thought the mustache was a fake in the thumbnail. Like he was pretending to be a Victorian explorer. OMG!
So the best measure of exercise is????? Yes, VO2 Max!!!! Nothing is more critical. It is a reflection of the work done or exercise over time. The minutes of exercise you do is irrelevant. The research says grow you VO2 max. Everything else is NOT relevant.
Heart rate variability (HRV) seems to be a more important metric to track, yet it isn’t mentioned. Strange.
Yes, not sure what it means. Mine seems not to vary much
@@alanmalarkey HRV is a non specific marker of stress. It correlates inversely with the latter. A low HRV, assuming it has dropped from your baseline, means something is not quite right with your health and your body is struggling to fix this something. The issue could be lack of sleep, psychological stress, impending illness (like a flu starting up) or a chronic health problem or something else. The practical aspect is this. If the HRV has dropped, look for a cause but also be aware that it’s a sign to take it easy that day. This might mean having a light workout rather than a heavy one, more sleep etc..
I would have said the most important number for your health is your age
Haha, have you been watching my other videos/reading my book/etc
Looking forward to the day when we can do something about that…
@@DrAndrewSteele sure great video with medlife crisis. Sure it will happen only have a doubt concerning the timeframe ;)
@@jado96 Let’s see whose opinion ages the best ;)
Ah nice video !
Just one negative note :
Exercise ,exercise ,exercise ....don't bother about your very bad diet by design that is disregarded by doctors and health authorities .If you have nutritional deficiencies , leaky gut , low Level chronic inflammation ,different toxicities like heavy metals , mold , xenoestrogens ,parabens ... , It will all wither away magically by the power of exercise .
But actually there is research that exercise with a bad diet doesn't do much☝️.
I don't think I've ever gotten an accurate measure of resting heart rate because I ALWAYS get nervous/performance anxiety when it's time to take it, even if just a little and even if I'm taking it myself in a calm environment. So I feel my pulse quicken. I've been resisting getting any kind of wearable but the fact that it's always on and I can't always be nervous about the measurement might mean I get an actually accurate measure.
I get terrible white-coat hypertension and tachycardia (ie my blood pressure and pulse measurements in the doctor’s office are much worse than at home!) so I feel you!!
@@DrAndrewSteele Same here with the white coat syndrome! One thing I've found that helps it be a little more accurate at the doctor's office is to hold/rest your wrist across your chest just at heart level (it's how it's supposed to be taken especially with wrist monitors). Also if you can get there a little early and relax after driving. And you're dead on Ridley with wearing it all the time you can't always be nervous, IMO it's worth knowing and tracking
@@ThePetalesharo Good tips! Alas, to add to the white coat hypertension, once a nurse took my blood pressure after forcing me to run down a corridor carrying my bike so relaxation wasn’t an option!!
So no one is going to discuss what appears to be an inverted pelvis bone on top of the skeleton?
How does this relate to max heart rate? Im 42 years old. Resting heartrate is 40. Can go upto 45 and down 35 depending on my training. Bad sleep and alcohol make it shoot up. Lots of resting and low intensiteit training make it drop. My max heart rate is also on the low end. 175 to 180.
People want to obsess over these things but dividing things up by quartiles or quintiles, of any of these metrics, is about the highest level of exactitude you can really expect or put some stock in.
I've read that resting heart rate can be genetically low or high but a change toward lower can be an indicator of fitness.
Drastic changes should be run by a doctor though as it can go down or up for non-fitness related reasons.
Comparisons between individuals may not work even though people want to do that so bad!
It may be an internally consistent metric though. So many want it to be an externally consistent metric. It isn't at this level of testing/measuring.
This is a lot like bodyfat testing.
You might actually have a 3% drop but you might not really know your actual bodyfat percentage with the same accuracy as your estimation of drop.
It's still useful to compare yourself to yourself but less good to compare yourself to others which is what so many want.
I'm suggesting that might be something to deemphasize and for more than one reason.
The Polar H10 chest strap doesn’t use exercise to measure your VO2 max it get’s you to lay on the floor for a set time, and then stand up.
Yes, I almost mentioned this but then decided to keep things simple because most devices do a measurement while you’re active! The H10 (and I think a few other devices) seem to use some combination of resting heart rate and heart rate variability, but from the papers I saw they tend to be (even) less accurate… I’ve been playing around with the one on my H10 and I’ve not quite worked out why but my measurements vary wildly!
@@DrAndrewSteele I don’t know how accurate it is, but I find it tends to match what Garmin predicts. The problem with most of the VO2 estimates is that they need the person to input their training volume on a 1-10 scale. Do you know if VO2 estimates using a power meter on a bike/trainer are more accurate? Garmin will give a separate VO2 estimate for running and cycling and they often don’t match for me.
@@Marty72 I wonder if this might be the issue…I reduced my training volume in the Polar app (after a few busy months) and my VO2 max dropped by 15! LOL.
I’ve not seen any data for bikes/trainers specifically, but my guess is they’d suffer from most of the same problems of indirect measurement-they might be a bit better because they know exactly how hard you’re working because they set the resistance etc, but they still don’t know any specifics of your physiology…
What does risk/probability of death mean? I was wondering because 50% less likely to die this week and 50% less likely to ever die is a big difference. Looked it up and it’s the likelihood that someone will die within the next year. This is typically stratified by age or gender, etc.
Your chance of death is 100%. This talk of reducing your chance of death is grossly misleading.
So much slow talk, and missing facts about apple watch which also counts active minutes, and leaves without saying what is the healthy resting heart rate ?
Amazing video. Thank you for putting so much work in and making things clear
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! :)
Interesting how nobody noticed that skeleton has its head and pelvis position swapped lol
But if you have had these devices for years and constantly hovering around 55-60 vo2 surely you know that you should have reasonable vo2 if tested in a lab.
Love this format and the simplicity of your RUclips style. Don’t feel the need to join in the thumbnail mania though hahaha.
How could I not celebrate that moustache
(And thanks!)
@@DrAndrewSteele i already watched the one hour video on Medlife crisis's channel and i only noticed the moustache now after reading this comment
@@therabbithat He wears is so naturally
tss isn't a good indicator, it doesn't meassure heart rate and especially saturation levels compared to my blood pressure meter (medisana) and my BPM/SAT meter. Smartwatches are not accurate.
You can rack up steps with very little effort - this ‘goal’ is junk and has fooled loads of people thinking they are doing lots for their fitness as their daily steps total is > 10000, but in reality it was all low intensity junk steps. I’ve seen tests showing short brisk walks or even shorter hiit sessions do considerably more in a far more efficient manner.
What would Nietzche know about cardiovascular health anyways?
How did I not know about such a great and well put together channel? ❤
I'm a 57yr old woman who likes to cycle. My heart rate rests in the low 40s when I'm just sitting there (on the sofa, not my bike!) (I feel great but nevertheless it freaks me out) and my max hr cycle up a really steep hill is 188bpm.
I don't drink wine or eat late any more because it makes me wake in the night with a 130bpm hr. Very very scary.
What the hell, medlife crisis rocking that Nietzsche look
11:38: 'compared to other women running that pace" - huh? applies to women (only)?
That really is a nice mustache. I usually don’t like them, but I like yours!
The #1 number is bench press PR
great video! I hated the part about resting heartrate, but that moustache made up for it by a factor of 100. I'd pretty much assumed that the masculinity requirements to manifest such a beast were lost to history.
How can it reduce the risk of dying? As far as I know the risk of dying is 100%.
oh man, relax! you start the video talking with so many emotions. its just a video.
If you tied health to endothelia function it might look similar to the other charts. Love me some nasal breathing
Who's this guy with the mustache? He looks familiar. 😜🤔
Great video very interesting, I'd also say that the amount of time sleeping is another very important metric that the watches can measure. Like all the data wearables measure it's not always the most precise. I question its accuracy in measure the different zones of sleep and quantifying the quality with a sleep score but people often neglect sleep when its really important for maintaining and improving health and fitness.
Is there a watch that gives vo2 Max?
Yes, lots of them do actually! Some of them give it a strange name (eg Fitbit calls it ‘cardio fitness score’ for some reason), but it’s often there somewhere if you poke around in the app.
Man, get yourself a Garmin. They are so much better than the ones you always talk about.
Polar was found more accurate than hollter monitor and equivalent to more advanced testing with leads on your chest
LDL cholesterol, blood pressure and BMI.
resting heart rate can be influenced by breathing and anxiety
That man has a magnificent moustache, rivals even the likes of Nieztsche
150min per week is pathetic though lmao, i hit that in a day...
Most important number is bench press PR.
Love your upside-down alian-like skeleton :-)
fitbit charge 6 is significantly more precise. next time do the tests with up to date hardware and watches that has up to date algorithm to evaluate data. its as good as the apple watch 8 or 9.
The Charge 6 didn’t exist when I made this video. :)
Hopefully I’ll make an update at some point soon though so feel free to subscribe if you don’t want to miss it!
Thanks, that's interesting.
How would you see the heart rate variability as indicator for your health? Modern watches can measure it.
Keep an eye out for a future video in which me and Rohin will cover this!