Ep.70: Your guide to Metabolic Efficiency Testing
How is your daily nutrition working for your physiology? How do you know how well your body burns its fuel sources during exercise? What’s a sweet spot for carbohydrate amounts to consume during training and competition? To get more accurate and objective insight, Metabolic Efficiency Testing is the way to go to find out the answers to these questions and more.
In this episode, we cover the details about Metabolic Efficiency Testing: its purpose, how it’s done, differences between other types of physiological testing, and the benefits for an array of athletes and other individuals.
We cover:
The origin story of the Metabolic Efficiency Testing (MET) and its purpose
What is the Crossover concept and its pertinence for MET
How is the test conducted?
Differences in metabolic cart technology that affect the accuracy of the results you receive
Differences between VO2max, lactate, and MET
Is the testing only useful for endurance athletes?
What data points do you get out of a ME test and utility for health and performance
Links:
Catch our episodes 9, 23, and 64 to hear more about Metabolic Efficiency Training
Bob’s Metabolic Efficiency Training book
find a certified professional and learn more about MET
Randall paper that was mentioned https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27580144/
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