Assessing Body Composition, Metabolic and Cardiovascular Function.
What are body composition, metabolic & cardiovascular function?
This combination of assessments is perfect to better understand your daily calorie needs and how it plays a part in your body composition. This is ideal for those wishing to optimises weight loss, or maintain a healthy body composition. Understanding metabolism and body composition is of use for a wide range of athletes as well as those within to better control excess weight. Understanding your individual metabolic rate, your daily macronutrient usage in conjunction with your lipid profile and blood pressure, is one of the most important aspects in the control of weight related disorders such as metabolic syndome. See Dr Simon Fryers physical activity and health Research Profile here and call him for a discussion of your assessment needs.
Test re-test Assessment of Combined Body Composition, Metabolic Rate, Blood Pressures and Cholesterol Profile
Cost
£399
Duration
2 -2.5 hours per visit
Test details
This combination of assessments is perfect to better understand your daily calorie needs and how it plays a part in your body composition and how this affects your health. This is ideal for those wishing to optimise weight loss or maintain a healthy body composition.
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For this assessment we ask that you attend the centre in the morning following an overnight fast. Following a 10-15 minute consultation to allow us to better understand your goals, we will fit you with a mask and ask you to lay supine on a test bed for 20 minutes. During this time we will assess your inspired and expired oxygen and carbon dioxide. From these we can determine metabolic rate, daily kcals and macronutrient utilisation. Following this we will assess your blood pressures and screen for heart arrhythmias before using a capillary blood sample to determine your lipid profile including cholesterols HDL, LDL, Ratios as well as triglycerides.
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Following your resting metabolic rate assessment and bloods we will offer you a small snack. This will be followed by the body composition assessment. Using the ISAK (International Society for the Advancement of Kinanthropometry) method of assessing subcutaneous body fat in 7 locations, we are able to accurately and reliably determine body fat percentage. This will be conducted using skinfold callipers.
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What you get
This package includes two assessments seperated by a period of time, usually 12 weeks. In each visit you get:
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1. Your individualised resting metabolic rate (RMR) in kcal per day.
2. VO2 max test of maximal aerobic capacity
3. Maximum strength assessment
4. Breakdown of carbohydrate, fat and protein utilisation.
5. Breakdown of total estimated daily energy expenditure.
6. Blood pressures
7. Some heart arrhythmias
8. Cholesterol and fasted glucose test.
9. Detailed report and discussion which relates your data to your body composition and health related goals whether that be weight loss, weight gain or change in composition. We can discuss physical activity, exercise, sedentary behaviour and nutritional behaviors.
Assessment of Combined Body Composition and Metabolic Rate
Cost
£95
Duration
1 to 1.5 hours
Test details
This combination of assessments is perfect to better understand your daily calorie needs and how it plays a part in your body composition. This is ideal for those wishing to optimise weight loss or maintain a healthy body composition.
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For this assessment we ask that you attend the centre in the morning following an overnight fast. Following a 10-15 minute consultation to allow us to better understand your goals, we will fit you with a mask and ask you to lay supine on a test bed for 20 minutes. During this time we will assess your inspired and expired oxygen and carbon dioxide. From these we can determine metabolic rate, daily kcals and macronutrient utilisation.
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Following your resting metabolic rate assessment we will offer you a small snack. This will be followed by the body composition assessment. Using the ISAK (International Society for the Advancement of Kinanthropometry) method of assessing subcutaneous body fat in 7 locations, we are able to accurately and reliably determine body fat percentage. This will be conducted using skinfold callipers.
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What you get
1. Your individualised resting metabolic rate (RMR) in kcal per day.
2. Breakdown of carbohydrate, fat and protein utilisation.
3. Breakdown of total estimated daily energy expenditure.
4. Detailed report which relates your data to your body composition goals whether that be weight loss, weight gain or change in composition.
Test-Re-
Test Assessment of Combined Body Composition and Metabolic Rate
Cost
£170 (10% Saving)
Duration
1 to 1.5 hours
Test details
Following a period of intervention, one of your most changable variables is your resting metabolic rate and body composition. A re-assessment is important to help you determine the effictivness of the intervention, any adjustments needed to optimilise the intervention, prevent plateaus, monitor health, maintain motivation, provide accountability and optilalise goals setting. As such, we strongly recommend frequent re-assessments.
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The re-assessment will be the very similar to the initial visit. We ask that you attend the centre in the morning following an overnight fast. Following a 10-15 minute consultation to allow us to better understand your goals, we will fit you with a mask and ask you to lay supine on a test bed for 20 minutes. During this time we will assess your inspired and expired oxygen and carbon dioxide. From these we can determine metabolic rate, daily kcals and macronutrient utilisation.
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Following your resting metabolic rate assessment we will offer you a small snack. This will be followed by the body composition assessment. Using the ISAK (International Society for the Advancement of Kinanthropometry) method of assessing subcutaneous body fat in 7 locations, we are able to accurately and reliably determine body fat percentage. This will be conducted using skinfold callipers.
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What you get
1. Your individualised resting metabolic rate (RMR) in kcal per day.
2. Breakdown of carbohydrate, fat and protein utilisation.
3. Breakdown of total estimated daily energy expenditure.
4. Detailed report which highlights your changes in resting metabolic rate, daily energy expenditure, macronutrient usage, and body composition.