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A study published in The New England Journal of Medicine suggests that “exercise capacity” (how intensely you can work out) may be a better measure of your overall fitness than your heart rate. Since fitness = longetivity we were quite excited by this article.

In this study, 5,720 healthy women were given stress tests; their exercise capacity was measured in METs (metabolic equivalents).  Then during an 8-year follow-up, researchers found that those whose METs were less than 85% of the target for their age were 2.5 times as likely to die from a cardiac-related cause.

Exercise researchers have developed a simple to use calculation to find out your target MET level:

-For women, MET level = 14.7 - (0.13 x your age in years)

-For men, MET level = 14.7 - (0.11 x your age in years)