The Human Performance Centre promotes healthy lifestyles, elite performance and innovation. With specialist biomechanics, physiology and gait analysis laboratories, we have assisted elite and Olympic level as well as developing athletes, and our reputation grows year on year.

Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR) is the baseline energy expenditure necessary for maintaining basic physiological functions, such as breathing, circulation, and cell maintenance, while the body is at rest.

RMR can be measured using indirect calorimetry, a method that estimates energy expenditure through gas analysis during rest. Measuring RMR is important for weight management helps establish a baseline for daily caloric requirements. The result of this test allows for the creation of personalized caloric intake recommendations.

Please note: You will be required to attend the assessment in a 2-4 hour (no food, water only) fasted state.

• 30-minute session to include ~15 minutes assessment of energy expenditure at rest whilst wearing a mask for gas analysis.
• Digital report of results

We will meet you outside the Faraday Wing Building. From here we will direct you to E132 – Environmental Psychophysiology Laboratory - where the service will take place. Please see a picture of the laboratory below.

Steve Hunter

Dr Lisa Zaidell

For information on our policies (payment, cancellation, terms and conditions, etc.) visit our general information page.

If you have a question that we haven’t answered here, please contact lsbushortcourses@lsbu.ac.uk  and we will respond to your query within 24 hours.