Metabolic Fitness

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Understanding Metabolic Fitness

Sara B. preparing for her test at
the '07 Heart Zones International
Conference in Denver Colorado.

What is Metabolism? Metabolism is all the processes that occur in the body that turn the food you eat into energy your body can use. Essentially, the body transformation of food into energy (calories) needed for important life processes.

Martin C. taking the Aerobic Metabolic Test at
the '07 Heart Zones International Conference.

Aerobic Metabolism is a process of converting fat and glycogen or glucose (carbohydrates and/or sugars) to make energy to be used as fuel by the muscles; also known as aerobic respiration as this process uses oxygen.

Metabolic Fitness Assessments

Depending on your current fitness level and goals, INFITNESS offers two 10 - 15 minute assessments to assess your Metabolic Fitness conveniently at your location or in a small studio setting located on the Eastside. Detailed reports are provided with each test to explain every detail of your fitness results. These tests have been proven to benefit individuals of all abilities. You will learn how to maximize your time, training and performance and get the results you want!

Why Assess Your Metabolism

Have you ever had a test done to tell you how many calories you burn just by breathing?

Or a test done to tell you how many calories you need to eat to lose or gain weight?

How about a test that shows you how you burn your calories and how you can maximize your cardiovascular workouts?

Metabolic testing provides individualized, real data on the number of calories needed to survive each day, the number of calories you burn during exercise and also indicates the exact exercise heart rate to maximally burn fat.

Information Revealed from the Assessments

Resting Metabolic Rate

Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR) measures your calorie utilization while at rest needed to maintain the body’s vital functions. If you want a weight loss plan that really works, you have to target your individual metabolism and forget about charts and averages. There is no such thing as one size fits all. Each person’s resting metabolic rate is based on genetics, eating habits, and fitness level. Knowing your RMR is the first step towards balancing your caloric intake with the amount of calories you burn each day.

This test can be used to maximze your weight loss, overcome plateaus or just maintain or even gain weight. Athletes find this an extremely useful tool to calculate how much they need to consume for optimal athletic performance and recovery. A resting metabolic rate test is a simple test that can help you to achieve your training or weight management goals.

Active VO2 Metabolism

Oxygen usage and carbon dioxide production are very specific to each person and provide a very detailed analysis of how the body uses fat and glycogen as exercise intensity increases. This is one of the most comprehensive physiologic test INFITNESS has to offer. It provides insight into the performance of the aerobic system by evaluating cardiorespiratory and metabolic function.

During a test, exercise intensity measured in watts or speed is increased while data is provided every 15 seconds. Aerobic and anaerobic thresholds are determined as well as peak VO₂. The ability to sustain a high percentage of ones VO₂^max rather than VO₂^maxitself is an important characteristic of a strong endurance athlete.

An individual fitness program will then be designed using heart rates corresponding to the thresholds to help anyone train and/or workout smarter and acheive the results they want.

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