FAQ

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Set your own objectives

When you are connected on the web platform, go to the “ranking” section (red menu) and then choose “profile” (grey menu). Click on “My objectives”. By default, there is a specific amount of health-kilometers that was attributed to each participant. You can change that number of health-kilometers. You can also add more specific qualitative objectives, for example: “eat at least 5 vegetables and fruits a day” or “increase my flexibility”.

Level of intensity

The amount of health-kilometers that an activity gives you corresponds to the amount of energy spent doing an activity. This calculation is based on 3 variables: the type of activity, the duration and the intensity. It is important to understand that the intensity variable is dependent of your health condition.

The intensity level is an easier way to calculate the target heart rate of an activity. Here are your guidelines for choosing the right level of intensity:

• Recreational: you can talk and discuss easily while doing the activity
• Moderate: you can talk but you cannot sign because you are a bit short of breath
• Intense: you can say one or two words but not more because you are too short of breath.

Please note that an intense activity corresponds to 85-95% of your maximum pulse and that’s why it CANNOT be done for more than 40 minutes without interruption for an average individual (maybe a bit more if you are an athlete).

Examples:

• If you take a one hour class of zumba, you don’t calculate stretching at the beginning and the end as “zumba”, but as “stretching”.
• If you “pause” in your running session to walk, you don’t enter the entire duration as “running”.

Other Examples:

• swimming, 40 minutes, moderate
• Jogging, 30 minutes, recreational
• Spinning, 50 minutes, intense

Duration

You need to enter the duration of the physical activity while you are active.

Examples:

• If you do downhill skiing from 1 to 4 p.m., you CANNOT enter 3 hours of skiing because you waited the chairlift or were sitting on the chairlift part of those 3 hours. Please enter the number of minutes you were actively going down the hill.