Metabolic Efficiency Assessment
METABOLIC EFFICIENCY ASSESSMENT
To achieve weight loss, fitness and performance, it is critical to
discover one's ability to use fat -- versus carbohydrates -- as an
energy source. A Metabolic
Efficiency Assessment determines the type of fuel (Fat –vs- Carb)
your system prefers to utilize at different efforts, including at
rest. The more
efficiently your body can use fat as a fuel, the longer you can
perform workloads and the less fuel replenishment you’ll need.
Plus, you’ll be leaner!
WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT?
For the Weight Loss and/or Fitness Client:
A metabolic efficiency assessment will determine the
appropriate prescribed training zones and nutritional requirements
to turn you into a fat burner.
You’ll burn more calories from fat, even when you are
sleeping! Why waste one
minute of your training session!
Discover your true fat burning training zones and the exact
amount of substrate ratios YOU need.
Discover exactly what intensity you need to train to turn
your body into a fat burning machine.
For the Athlete:
The results will give caloric expenditure required for
your event, show you how to preserve carb stores to decrease the
amount of fuel replenishment, prescribes exactly how to increase fat
as fuel so you can
perform workloads, faster-longer and determine why you have GI
distress or bonk during your trainings and events.
A MUST for all athletes.
The Test:
While on a treadmill, your
bike or a stationary bike,
a comfortable breathing mask will be placed over your mouth and
nose. Tubes from the facemask are connected to an analyzer.
You will perform a ramped exercise session, which starts very
easy. Every 3-5
minutes, intensity will progressively increase, until you are at a
hard effort. This is a
sub-max assessment and you will NOT go to maximal effort.
Thereafter,
results are correlated to PACE, POWER and HEART RATE, VO2, VCO2,
Kcals, Fat%, Carb %,
Ventilation and RQ.
Check out video of Efficiency Assessment here.