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+ Your Basal Metabolic Rate
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+ Even when you are not moving, your body uses a lot of energy to keep your heart, brain, liver, kidneys, and other organs running.
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+ This constantly ongoing energy burn is called your basal metabolic rate, or resting metabolic rate, and it is simply the energy it takes to keep you alive.
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+ Your basal metabolic rate (shortened BMR) is fairly stable, but it can increase or decrease slightly depending on things like how much food you’re eating or if you’re injured or sick.
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+ Mostly, however, it’s determined by your lean body mass.
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+ Body fat, it turns out, isn’t very biologically active compared to your other organs (including muscle), and doesn’t affect your metabolic rate too much.
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+ Instead, lean body mass is the single best predictor of BMR, and can be used to estimate it with this equation:
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+ BMR(kcal/day) = 500 + 22 (LBM in kg)
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+ Another way to calculate your BMR is with the Mifflin-St Jeor formula.
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+ Calories Burned Lifting Weights
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+ So your basal (or resting) metabolic rate is the energy it constantly takes to keep you ticking. But in addition to that, you might also move your body, which costs additional energy.
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+ In physics, the movement of mass (such as your body or a barbell) is called work, which requires energy.
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+ For example, the amount of work required to lift 100 kg one meter up in the air is 0.23 kcal (kilocalories).
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+ This is calculated with m×g×Δh where:
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+ m is the mass of the object
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+ g is Earth’s gravitational force (9.8 m/s2)
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+ Δh is the difference in height
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+ (and the answer is given in joule)