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These two terms are used interchangeably, although they are not technically the same.
Resting metabolic rate is really what most lay people mean when they say basal metabolic rate.
Resting metabolic rate is the energy required by a human to stay alive with no activity.
Your real metabolic rate is always significantly higher than your RMR. Calculating RMR is
a very useful first step in calculating your real metabolic rate.
Your metabolic rate =
your resting metabolic rate (easy to calculate reasonably accurately)
+ energy consumed by your daily activities (must guestimate).
For the vast majority of people, resting metabolic rate can be
calculated knowing a few key variables. They are age, sex, weight, height.
Calculating your basal metabolic rate (BMR)
You take a certain percentage of your RMR and add that to the RMR,
giving your total estimated metabolic rate.
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Activity Level
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Men
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Women
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Sedentary (inactive)
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15%
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15%
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Lightly Active (most professionals, office workers, shop workers, teachers, homemakers)
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40%
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35%
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Moderately active (workers in light industry, most farm workers, active students,
department store workers, solders not in active service, commercial fishing workers)
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50%
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45%
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Very active (full-time athletes and dancers, unskilled laborers, forestry
workers, military recruits in training, soldiers in active service, mine workers, steel workers)
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85%
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70%
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Exceptionally active (lumberjacks, blacksmiths, female construction workers)
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110%
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100%
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