Tuesday, December 1, 2009

What Is Basal Metabolic Rate?

Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) is a calculation of your gender, age, height and weight. It is an easy way to calculate your calorie intake based solely on your body weight.

Women: BMR = 655 + ( 9.6 x weight in kilos ) + ( 1.8 x height in cm ) - ( 4.7 x age in years )
Men: BMR = 66 + ( 13.7 x weight in kilos ) + ( 5 x height in cm ) - ( 6.8 x age in years )

After obtaining your results, you now know how many calories are required to keep the body functioning at rest. What does this mean? The calories obtained is the minimum calories your body needs to complete necessary functions such as breathing, heat, pump blood etc . Of course this will not be the case as we must walk to make lunch, run for the bus and simply performing our day to day tasks so we need to intake many more calories. This step becomes an important step when working out your dailing calorie intake.

Keep a look out as I will be posting more information and how you can measure how many calories you need every day.

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