Metabolic Testing

The fastest way to lose fat without the guess work!

WHAT OUR METABOLIC MACHINE MEASURES:

Slow, normal or fast metabolism

Exact calories for workout and training days`

If you are a sugar or fat burner

Exact calories for cheat days

Maintenance calories

WHAT IS METABOLIC TESTING?

At Body Measure we have a research grade metabolic device.

Metabolic Testing, through Indirect Calorimetry is the accurate, reliable measurement of your metabolism. The machine, by measuring both OXYGEN and CARBON DIOXIDE as you inhale and exhale, at rest, calculates total calories your body needs for either weight loss or for your maintenance zone.

In this way, all the guess work is removed, giving you the fastest and most reliable way of getting to your ideal body composition.

*Metabolic testing is best paired with a MACRO ratios consult or an appointment with a dietitian/ nutritionist.

WHAT IS YOUR RESTING METABOLIC RATE?

This is the amount of calories your body needs to burn whilst at rest to live, i.e. the calories needed to beat your heart, move your diaphragm, maintain your body temperature etc. From this, science has determined the amount of calories one would need to eat to achieve their ideal body composition.

Your Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR) is a measure of how many calories you burn at rest in 24 hours.

Body Measure will directly measure your metabolism using research grade technology which will give you an accurate personalised measurement rather than using a generic formula which is an estimate.

This means that you can now determine exactly how many calories you need to eat in a day to successfully lose weight and reach your body composition goals.

WHAT IS YOUR RESTING METABOLIC RATE?

Fast for 6 hours prior to your test, no food or fluids
Don’t exercise the day of your test
Relax and breath into an individual sterilized tube for 15 minutes
Receive your calorie plan that day!
To understand the full nutrition picture, it is important to consider your MACRO ratios, this can be booked in with us, or you can take your information to a dietitian/ nutritionist.

FIND OUT HOW TO EAT TO SUIT YOUR METABOLISM

Losing weight can be difficult at the best of times, especially if you start off with inaccurate data. We see many clients who try to lose weight by dramatically under eating. This over time can make the body enter famine mode, which can cause your metabolism to slow down.

Things like Yo Yo dieting, long term calorie restriction, overtraining, stress, certain medical conditions and just ageing can all slow down your metabolism.

Also we see the situation where clients are training really hard but not replenishing their body with the right amount of calories. This can lead to muscle loss, fatigue and injury.

Knowing the right amount of calories to eat on training days and non-training days gives the body enough energy to recovery from training whilst allowing for safe and effective fat loss.

You may be training really hard but not replenishing your body with the right amount of calories and this can lead muscle loss, fatigue, injury and possibly weight gain.

WHY METABOLIC FORMULAS DON’T WORK

Until now we have had to use predictive metabolism formulas. This is where you enter your weight, height, sex and age into a calculator and your metabolism is estimated. The problem is that these formulas are inaccurate and can vary considerably from test to test.

There are 4 main metabolic testing formulas that exist and if you put in your details into each of these formulas there is whopping 200 calories a day in variation! Eating 200 calories above you maintenance would cause you to gain a staggering 9kg in a year!

It’s fairly obvious that these predictive formulas are a best guess. For example if two people had the same height, weight and sex, and one was an elite athlete, the other an overweight couch potato, they would not have the same metabolisms. The predictive formulas would show that their metabolisms were the same!

Our Metabolic test is state of the art and completely individualized to each client.

It’s a research grade machine that measures your metabolism through O2 and Co2 direct measurement.

So there is no guess work. Get your unique metabolism measured and know the exact amount of calories you need to lose fat fast.

FIND OUT HOW TO EAT TO SUIT YOUR METABOLISM

Using DEXA scans to measure metabolic rate is also unfortunately inaccurate.

DEXA scans still use a predictive formula. But rather than being based on height, weight and sex, it is based on the recorded lean tissue mass. But being a formula it is still open to great inaccuracies.