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Resting Metabolic Rate & Body Composition

Resting metabolic rate testing (RMR) measures the number of calories you burn at rest. Understanding your daily caloric intake helps to inform weight loss and ensure sufficient fuelling for training and performance.*.

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For individuals wanting to understand their daily caloric needs. If you want to lose, gain, or maintain weight, a scientifically accurate understanding of your resting metabolic rate is essential.

Resting metabolic rate test

Resting Metabolic Rate & Body Composition

Resting metabolic rate test

For individuals wanting to understand their daily caloric needs. If you want to lose, gain, or maintain weight, a scientifically accurate understanding of your resting metabolic rate is essential. .

To complete this test as accurately as possible, please arrive in a fasted state (only water for 8 hours prior to the test).

  • Price:
  • Duration:Approximately 45 minutes
  • Details:Before completing the test, we start with a short 10-minute consultation with one of our team to understand your goals and explain the process. The test involves wearing a gas sampling mask and being sat in a reclined position in a quiet room for 15-20 minutes.

    To complete this test as accurately as possible, please arrive in a fasted state (only water for 8 hours prior to the test).

    Following significant weight loss and/or an increase in exercise, it is important to have your RMR retested. The body adapts to changes in weight and exercise by increasing or decreasing your RMR. A consistent, accurate measure of your RMR is crucial for establishing an appropriate calorie intake for a desired goal and allows further programmes to adjust for the variations in RMR caused by the change in body weight.
  • What You’ll get:
    1. Measured Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR) - kcal/day
    2. Estimated total daily energy expenditure breakdown (RMR, digestion or TEF, and activity)
    3. Information about energy balance

    All information is included in a report you receive following the test.

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Body Composition Assessment

Using girth and skinfold measurements to understand body composition and estimate body fat %

  • Price:
  • Duration:Approximately 30 minutes
  • Details:Using the ISAK (International Society for the Advancement of Kinanthropometry) methods for obtaining measurements, a pinch of skin (subcutaneous body fat) is taken and measured for its thickness using skinfold calipers at various sites across the body.

    Objectively assessing body composition can provide you with baseline information that can be used, following reassessment, to show the effectiveness of an intervention or training programme. Individual skinfold measurements, girth measurements, and sum of skinfolds (4 site or 7 site) are also useful to look at when comparing pre- and post-intervention.

    To obtain the measurements, we require access to the bicep, tricep, upper back, hip, thigh, abdomen, and calf. Please wear appropriate clothing so that this is possible.
  • What You’ll get:
    1. Body fat %
    2. Lean mass %
    3. Girth measurements

    All information is included in a report you receive following the test.

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Resting Metabolic Rate Test & Body Composition Assessment

For individuals wanting to understand their daily caloric needs, and understand more about their body composition to optimise weight loss efforts.

  • Price:
  • Duration:Approximately 60 minutes
  • Details:See above individual tests for information
  • What You’ll get:
    1. Measured Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR) - kcal/day
    2. Estimated total daily energy expenditure breakdown (RMR, digestion or TEF, and activity)
    3. Body fat %
    4. Lean mass %
    5. Girth measurements
    6. Detailed weight-loss plan (required kcal/day intake to achieve target weight)
    7. Information about energy balance

    All information is included in a report you receive following the test.

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