New Leaf Metabolic and Resting Assessment
Our New Leaf metabolic assessment is a two-step process. First, there’s the Resting Metabolic Rate assessment. The first part measures your resting metabolic rate (RMR). Your Certified Personal Trainer will help you position the mask over your nose and mouth, and then you will be seated in a chair while you breathe naturally while you stay awake. What the RMR reveals is the number of calories your body requires to go through its daily work of sleeping, eating, breathing, and so on. Consider this: Let’s say your RMR is 1300 calories.
If we take into account your overall lifestyle expenditure, we figure out your body needs 1690 calories to maintain its weight. If you eat 1500 calories, and you burn 500 during a workout, you’ve got 1000 calories available for your body to do its daily necessary work and that’s 300 fewer than your RMR. While a deficit may sound like a good way to drop some pounds, in reality your body will slow its metabolism to compensate for the lack of calories needed for daily function.
Basically, you want to stay as close to your RMR as possible to reap the most benefit from your metabolism.
The second part of the assessment measures your metabolic rate during exercise. You’ll put the mask back on, and for 10 to 15 minutes, you’ll walk or jog on a treadmill at increasing levels of intensity. This is where you’ll learn how many calories your body burns while exercising; whether those calories come mainly from fat, carbs, or a combination of both; and at what intensity level you burn calories most efficiently.
This information will help you and your Certified Personal Trainer chart a speedy path to redefining your fitness. A personal daily workout plan ends the guesswork about how often and how intensely to workout. Just follow the plan, and you’ll get results.
Please contact us
at (408) 356-2136, or email FitnessInfo@lgsrc.com
for additional information or any questions you may have.
