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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 long...
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 t...