Does regular exercise increase the basal metabolic rate?

probably

SCIENCE said:

probably

+1

dv said:

Does regular exercise increase the basal metabolic rate?

In high performance athletes there are some changes in BMR, in the rest of the plebs it seems to not change.

cheers

Briefly, no. BMR is determined by the total volume of muscle.

Total MR will increase during the exercise and recovery, obviously.

Rule, what’s the correlation between BMR and BMI off the top of your head.

Peak Warming Man said:

Rule, what’s the correlation between BMR and BMI off the top of your head.

Well, to maintain your fatness, you need to eat more…

http://www.mydr.com.au/tools/basal-energy-calculator

Thanks, Rule.

I suppose it might be the case that regular exercise can increase muscle mass so it may indirectly affect BMR…

Teh intorweb tells me that there is a component of large variation in BMR among cohorts of people with the same muscle mass that is basically unexplained.

I can’t help being inefficient.

dv said:

Teh intorweb tells me that there is a component of large variation in BMR among cohorts of people with the same muscle mass that is basically unexplained.

Are you channelling transition?

OK, time for me to work again.

dv said:

Thanks, Rule.

I suppose it might be the case that regular exercise can increase muscle mass so it may indirectly affect BMR…

Yes.

dv said:

Teh intorweb tells me that there is a component of large variation in BMR among cohorts of people with the same muscle mass that is basically unexplained.

I can’t see that changing any time soon.

buffy said:

dv said:

Teh intorweb tells me that there is a component of large variation in BMR among cohorts of people with the same muscle mass that is basically unexplained.

Are you channelling transition?

No.