For Endurance Athletes
Metabolic Efficiency Training™
Take your endurance training to the next level. Metabolic Efficiency Training™, a concept created by Bob Seebohar, is a system of nutrition and exercise strategies designed to improve the body’s ability to burn fat and conserve glucose — with a positive impact on performance, longevity and health.
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Why it matters
Performance
Enhance endurance performance by training your body to maximize available nutrients during aerobic activity. Improve fat burn utilization at higher intensities and stave off glycogen depletion. Experience less GI distress by optimizing the right amount of carbohydrate supplementation for your body.
Longevity
A significant portion of disease risk can be controlled by stabilizing and optimizing blood sugar levels. Controlling blood sugar is the main concept behind the nutrition strategies for improving fat burn. Being proactive now helps decrease your overall disease risk factors later in life — a greater health span, not just lifespan.
Health
Other benefits include weight management, improved energy levels, less brain fog and faster exercise recovery.
Metabolic Efficiency Testing at METAFITRX
Metabolic Efficiency Testing (MET) involves two assessments, which together map out your nutrition and exercise strategy.
Resting Metabolic Rate assessment
Establishes your resting heart rate, the calories you burn at rest over a 24-hour period, and the ratio of carbohydrate to fat you are burning at rest.
The Metabolic Efficiency Test
Establishes your Metabolic Efficiency Point — the intensity at which you are using a 50/50 split of carbohydrate and fat as fuel during aerobic exercise. A sub-maximal assessment on a bike or treadmill, with walk and run protocols available.
Your strategy
The two results are used to improve your Metabolic Efficiency Point with a specific cardio prescription, and to reduce GI distress through the right glucose and carbohydrate supplementation for your body.
Your two appointments
Testing · 90 minutes
The Resting Metabolic Rate assessment followed by the Metabolic Efficiency Test.
Results · 30 minutes
Your results, your exercise recommendations, and the nutrition strategies that follow from them.
Pricing
Metabolic Efficiency Training™
Two appointments · 90 min + 30 min
Includes the Resting Metabolic Rate assessment and the Metabolic Efficiency Test, plus your results and strategy session.
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30 min
Only needed if you want exact macronutrient ratios for nutrition planning.
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- What is Metabolic Efficiency Training™?
- A system of nutrition and exercise strategies, created by sports dietitian Bob Seebohar, designed to improve your body’s ability to burn fat and conserve glucose. The testing establishes where you currently sit, and the strategies move that point in your favour.
- Who is it for?
- Endurance athletes are the clearest fit — anyone who has run out of fuel late in a session or event, or who deals with GI distress from carbohydrate supplementation. The same blood-sugar principles apply to weight management and long-term disease risk, so it is not only for competitors.
- What is a Metabolic Efficiency Point?
- The exercise intensity at which your body is drawing an even 50/50 split of its fuel from carbohydrate and fat. Below it you are predominantly burning fat; above it you are increasingly spending glycogen. Raising that point means you can go harder before you start drawing down a limited fuel tank.
- How is this different from a VO2max assessment?
- A VO2max assessment is a maximal test that measures your aerobic ceiling and maps your heart rate zones. This is a sub-maximal test measuring something different — which fuel you are burning, and at what intensity the mix shifts. It answers a nutrition question rather than a capacity one.
- How many appointments is this?
- Two. The first is 90 minutes and covers the RMR assessment and the Metabolic Efficiency Test. The second is 30 minutes and covers your results, exercise recommendations and nutrition strategies.
- Do I need a DEXA Scan as well?
- Only if you want exact macronutrient ratios for nutrition planning. The general concepts and strategies of Metabolic Efficiency Training™ do not require one.
- How should I prepare?
- Prep instructions are emailed before your appointment; the standard guidance for our exercise assessments is below.
- Dress in comfortable exercise attire and closed-toe workout shoes.
- Refrain from heavy endurance training for 24 hours beforehand.
- No food, tobacco, alcohol, or caffeine for at least 3 hours prior — the resting measurement depends on it.
- Continue medications as usual.
Explore the other assessments
Zone 2 Blood Lactate Assessment
Pinpoint your Aerobic Threshold and the true upper limit of your Zone 2.
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Your maximal aerobic capacity and the heart rate training zones that follow from it.
Learn more →DEXA Body Composition Scan
Body fat, visceral fat, lean mass, and bone density from the gold-standard method.
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