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The MET : brief history, current uses and concerns /

The MET: Brief History, Current Uses and Concerns offers an easy-to-understand resource that details the key factors attendant to this widely used quantitative measure of work. Featuring a Tutorial Lecture from the 2010 ACSM annual meeting the DVD details what a MET is, how it's used, and why i...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: American College of Sports Medicine (Producer)
Other Authors: Howley, Edward T., 1943- (Speaker)
Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:This edition in English.
Published: Monterey, CA : Healthy Learning, 2010.
Series:Sports medicine and exercise science in video
Subjects:
Energy metabolism.
Exercise > Physiological aspects.
Metabolism.
Internet videos.
Instructional films.
Filmed lectures.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The MET
  • Derivative expressions of metabolic rate
  • First use of the term "MET"
  • Basal metabolic rate
  • The MET and how it's used
  • Max METs
  • Recommendations and conclusions.