So around 4200 Met-min/week is my guess for your total activity level. The data is too noisy for me to make a solid recommendation for someone like you up at the tail end of the measured results. For what it’s worth, I doubt you’re negatively impacting your health at that level. Marathons and other extreme endurance events seem harmful to me based on limited data, but stuff well below that is probably beneficial.
Now if we include optimal for stress as an additional criteria beyond just optimal total activity I think we could make some more solid predictions. It sounds like your current routine is dovetailing pretty well with the rest of your work/life balance, so I’d be loathe to change it much if I was in your shoes. OTOH if it does seem like there is a pain point I also doubt you’d be harming yourself significantly by reducing your exercise load slightly. Just be sure to set up some sort of Schelling fence for yourself so you don’t fall too far. I’m guessing maybe setting up such a fence is what motivated your question. I’ll just keep pointing at the 3500 Met-min/week as something we actually have evidence for, even if slight. This pretty much exactly corresponds in your case from switching from 6d/wk to 5d/wk. If you anted to drop it any further you’d probably be wanting to up the intensity to compensate.
So around 4200 Met-min/week is my guess for your total activity level. The data is too noisy for me to make a solid recommendation for someone like you up at the tail end of the measured results. For what it’s worth, I doubt you’re negatively impacting your health at that level. Marathons and other extreme endurance events seem harmful to me based on limited data, but stuff well below that is probably beneficial.
Now if we include optimal for stress as an additional criteria beyond just optimal total activity I think we could make some more solid predictions. It sounds like your current routine is dovetailing pretty well with the rest of your work/life balance, so I’d be loathe to change it much if I was in your shoes. OTOH if it does seem like there is a pain point I also doubt you’d be harming yourself significantly by reducing your exercise load slightly. Just be sure to set up some sort of Schelling fence for yourself so you don’t fall too far. I’m guessing maybe setting up such a fence is what motivated your question. I’ll just keep pointing at the 3500 Met-min/week as something we actually have evidence for, even if slight. This pretty much exactly corresponds in your case from switching from 6d/wk to 5d/wk. If you anted to drop it any further you’d probably be wanting to up the intensity to compensate.
Keep up the awesome work.