Metabolic Rate | Basal Metabolic Rate

Metabolic activity is determined by how much oxygen and electrolytes can be utilized, and delivered to all the cells. Usually it is calibrated in terms of muscle work. Metabolic Rate (MR) = Resting Metabolic Rate (BMR or RMR) + energy consumed by daily activities. In order to burn more fuel (glucose) more efficiently, it's necessary to increase the amount of oxygen available to deep organs, otherwise overall metabolic rate is limited to increasing V02max in muscle, primarily. Better electrolyte delivery to accelerate electrical activity and better oxygen delivery to accelerate energy consumption in both muscle and deep tissue during both rest and exercise is required to produce a radical improvement in both the MR and BMR. This is the key to achieving Peak Metabolic Potential™ (PMP™).

While building muscle mass with resistance training is typically used to raise the BMR and interval training is used to raise the MR, the Body'Fit pH Fitness™ exercise warm-up (short form... pHx™) now offers a specialized way to raise metabolic potential in all tissues and get More Out of Exercise™. Not an invention, but a discovery. pHx utilizies the most economical movement of the entire musculature to elicit the most efficient pH health fitness response. The design of the 24-exercise pHx program is engineered to drive significantly more oxygen and electrolytes into deep organs, faster. Simply put, PMP is to all the tissues of our body, what V02max is to muscle tissue.

Aerobic Capacity
Any improvement on exercise-induced delivery and utilization of oxygen results in greater aerobic endurance, and the ability to maintain submaximal effort for a long time (on which more intense training depends). With greater aerobic endurance there's quicker more complete recovery between work intervals, faster adjustment at the beginning of each work interval, and more aerobic metabolism of blood and fat, as well as reduction in lactic acid buildup which causes fatique. The window of opportunity is better O2 delivery and better utilization in the heart, brain and deep organs under conditions of pH balance, and this must be engineered since exercise usually makes the body acidic and virtually cuts off circulation to much of the deep tissue. Achieving PMP means a stronger, more efficient heart, improved oxygen exchange in the lungs, greater oxygen carrying capacity of the blood, and a proliferation of capillaries in all tissues (normally reserved for muscle only), and an increased concentration in aerobic enzymes in all tissues. Body'Fit can thereby improve aerobic training capacity of sports like basketball, soccer, hockey, and long distance running.

Achieving pH health fitness in minutes requires optimal absorption and distribution of electrolytes needed in the propogation of nerve impulse, polarization and depolarization of muscle tissue, and general cellular metabolism, under aerobic conditions. Fast reovery from acid pH fatique (due to high temperatures and metabolite build-up) quickly, raising overall metabolic rate by involving deep tissues, and building staying power to compete and perform all skills with elevated comfort into the final minutes of the game, is perhaps as significant to the engineering of physiological mechanisms of pHx™ as muscle-balancing injury prevention is to its anatomical structuring.

When pH health fitness is not figured into a training regime, studies indicate that the level of aerobic fitness does not have any correlation with resting metabolism. This is significant because most aerobic and endurance exercise acidifies the body, impacting metabolism (which requires an alkaline pH to operate at it's maximum power during both rest and exercise). When the Body'Fit warm-up cool down is used as a tool to boost aerobic capacity of endurance training, and during interval training to improve anerobic endurance, its physiological benefits become obvious. The pHx DynaStretch techniques help to further speed up the distribution of electrolytes neutralizing any pH acidity produced by muscle contraction. Utilization of ATP, free fatty acids, and carbohydrates during both rest and exercises increases with regular performance of the Body'Fit routine, accounting for the increased MR and BMR observed.

Design Engineering vs Adaptation 
The health fitness advantage of raising both the MR and BMR to their peak potential with specially designed pH Fitness is the increase in oxygen levels in all tissues. Among the most important outcomes of optimization of cellular action potential (body voltage) with fast restoration of acid-base equilibrium not only in muscle but in deep organs, is its impact on neural networks including the hypothalamus. Furthermore, metabolic pH cannot be restored without stimulating the five major endocrine plexes in the sequence determined to open up blood and lymphatic circulation in deep tissues. To mitigate the shut down of circulation (except in muscle) by physical training, Body'Fit stress-free cardio warms up the heart and deep organs before asking them to work harder. The neural and circulatory integration produced by this cyclical synergy is to a great extent responsible for reducing, to the minimum, the exertion stress involved in achieving PMP. 

To build greater aerobic and anaerobic capacity for adaptation. Body'Fit achieves Peak Metabolic Potential for aerobic and anaerobic capacity by increasing availability of oxygen and electrolytes in all tissues producing a greater overall metabolic rate during exercise than by increasing the V02max alone. Greater endurance is a function of increased delivery of oxygen and increased uptake and utilization by active muscles (Astrand, 1977). The same is true of other tissues of the body, except that sports training usually limits the increase of oxygen to muscle. By increasing rather than decreasing circulation to deep tissues along with electrolyte balance and availability, a greater BMR is possible than by building muscle mass alone. And when acid base equilibrium is restored rather than disrupted, cellular metabolism for adapatation and regeneration improves significantly.

Anaerobic Capacity 
Interval endurance training raises the anaerobic threshold by improving adaptation for more oxygen consumption through delivery and utilization of oxygen ie. V02max. Body'Fit raises the threshold by engineering fast oxygen delivery and metabolite removal to increase cardiac output, efficiency of gas exchange in the lungs and tissues, blood volume and oxygen carrying capacity. More hemoglobin is made available to carry oxygen when it isn't required as a buffering agent for excess H+ resulting from lactic acid and metabolite build-up. More efficient gas exchange in the lungs and tissues means greater cardiac output with less work.

Whereas local adaptations are reflected in the increased uptake and utilization of oxygen with anatomical and biochemical changes within muscles, subsequent metabolic acidity uses up electrolytes in an attempt to rebalance the pH. Peak Metabolic Potential is reflected in the increase in electrolyte distribution associated with expansion of systemic circulation in deep organs and restoration of acid-base equilibrium through stimulation of neuro-lymphatic meridians. In the case of Body'Fit pH Fitness anatomical and biochemical changes are not limited primarily to muscle, and include: proliferation of capillary networks, increase in the molecules that bind to oxygen, greater metabolic efficiency of mitochondria (the small organelles in cells that contain the enzymes of aerobic metabolism), and increases in concentrations of enzymes which determine the potential for aerobic metabolism in the mitochondria.

While local biochemical improvements like enzyme concentrations (local adaptations) are much more rapid and larger than the change in measured functional capacity (V02max), they are also lost much more quickly with detraining compared to V02max. The absorption and distribution of electrolytes is critical to pH balance and heightened electrical activity which sustains local adaptations within cells.

Conclusion
Body'Fit pH Fitness exercise raises metabolic activity by increasing osygen and electrolyte delivery and uptake in both muscles and deep organs. By radically improving on the biochemical changes of exercise by design engineering rather than relying solely on exertion stress, pHx raises the bar on conditioning speed and sustainability as well as post-exercise recovery and regeneration. The difference is noticable immediately. By providing a useful biofeedback tool through its ability to achieve PMP at a neutral pH during all degrees of performance intensity without exceeding compensatory mechanisms. Body'Fit pHx trains mental awareness as well as physical strength.