Your guide to Metabolic Efficiency Testing - Ep. #70

Inside Sports Nutrition

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: https://www.enrgperformance.com/ebooks
• https://www.metabolicefficiency.org/ to 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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