Health & fitness DECODED
1 BMR : Basal Metabolic Rate
The number of calories your body would burn if you did nothing for 24 hours. ‘It’s what the body needs to perform basic functions like breathing and your heart pumping blood,’ explains Claire Smith, personal trainer at The Training Room. ‘The BMR is used to calculate the overall number of calories burned in a day, based on activity levels, and therefore the calories needed to lose body fat, gain muscle mass or
