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WHAT IS METAFIT TRAINING?
The Metafit workout aims to:
- Work major muscle groups functionally.
- Deplete glycogen stores.
- Create a metabolic disturbance.
- Increase Resting Metabolic Rate (Your Resting Metabolic Rate or Basal Metabolic Rate is number of calories your body needs to just exist).
- Increase fat burning.
RESTING METABOLIC RATE
- RMR accounts for 65-75% of calories burnt.
- The majority of calories stored as body fat are used at rest.
- Increasing your RMR is the best way to increase your fat burning potential.
- After a metafit workout your RMR will remain elevated for a minimum of 24 hours.
THE ROLE OF LEAN MUSCLE IN RMR
- 1 lb of lean muscle requires 50 calories per day to survive.
- Therefore increasing lean muscle mass increases calorie output and metabolism.
- Humans lose 2-4% of their lean muscle mass every 10 years after the age of 25.
- As a result of this loss of muscle the metabolism slows down by 5% every 10 years.
HOW DOES METAFIT INCREASE RMR?
- Maintaining or increasing lean muscle mass.
- Taking advantage of the EPOC (Excess Post-exercise Oxygen Consumption) effect or in simple terms the afterburn effect.
EPOC: THE AFTER BURN EFFECT
- “Excess Post-exercise Oxygen Consumption” is the effect that you get after a workout.
- EPOC is your body returning to a state of rest after physical exertion.
- This effect varies depending on the intensity of the workout.
- High intensity work outs increase EPOC more than any other type of training.
METAFIT USES LEAN MUSCLE & EPOC TO BURN FAT!
- Metafit is not performed in the ‘fat burning zone’.
- We are aiming to deplete glycogen stores in the muscles and maximize EPOC to burn fat during recovery.
- You WILL NOT burn fat during your metafit workout.
- You WILL increase your RMR & preserve muscle mass : which as we have seen, is the single most effective way of burning fat.