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Decoding the MET: A Critical Analysis of Exercise Science’s Favourite Metric

While the Metabolic Equivalent of Task provides a brilliantly clear shorthand for measuring exercise intensity, its reliance on a "standard human" constant of 3.5 ml/kg/min often sacrifices individual accuracy for the sake of public health convenience. This creates a "convenient fiction" where the metric remains a robust tool for studying large populations but a potentially misleading guide for the unique metabolic realities of an individual body.

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