The Ultimate Guide to Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR)
Kettle on, tea brewing, laptop barely open, and your body is still hard at work. That quiet truth is the […]
Kettle on, tea brewing, laptop barely open, and your body is still hard at work. That quiet truth is the […]
Somebody has just used a BMR calculator after breakfast, sees a number such as 1,450 or 1,800 calories, and immediately
It’s 7:15 on a rainy Tuesday morning in Leeds. You haven’t moved off the sofa yet, you’re still in your
Someone sits down with a cup of tea, types their age, height and weight into the first BMR calculator they
Picture a rainy morning in Manchester, kettle on, phone out, typing your age, height, weight and sex into a BMR
Tea finished, BMR calculator checked, verdict announced: “my metabolism is broken.” I hear that sentence constantly, whether I am chatting
Sofa, telly on, absolutely nothing happening, and your body is still busy working away underneath it all. Your heart is
Right, let’s answer this one plainly before anything else. A BMR calculator itself does not normally change its maths every
“So is AMR just another word for BMR?” That’s the question I get asked more than most, usually from someone
Wet Tuesday in Leeds, scales just stepped off, and you have decided this is the week you sort it out.
Picture sitting on the sofa in Manchester on a cold Sunday morning, mug of tea in hand, doing absolutely nothing
“What do all those numbers in a BMR formula actually mean?” That’s the question most readers bring to this page,
Right, let’s get one thing sorted before we touch a single number. I remember sitting with my old gym notebook
Right, so you have spotted both BMR and REE sitting on the same calculator page and you are wondering if
Right, picture this. You sit down with a cuppa, type your age, sex, height and weight into three different calculators,
Right, so you have got your age, height and weight written down, a cup of tea beside you, and no
Picture a chilly morning in Manchester, still tucked under the duvet before the kettle has even clicked on. Your body
Right, let’s clear this up once and for all. I get asked about bmr vs rmr vs tdee almost every