No Insurance. This testing was purely elective on my part.
I had the RMR portion completed today. I am very pleased with the results of the initial tests.
BOBFRMCHGO 3/2/06 9:15 P
Cool, $170 sounds really cheap for all that testing and follow-up given what ripoffs the retail rate usually is on testing of any sort, did insurance cover part or negotiate the rate for you?
GOLFPRO 3/2/06 7:02 P
Chris,
Sounds like you're doing well!! I'll be interested to hear about the results from the follow up test.
matt
CHRISSMITH 3/2/06 5:06 P
Well, I took the plunge and completed the VO2 test earlier in the week. The VO2 Max is a measurement of my lungs ability to do work. I surprised myself and the young lady testing me with a VO2 Max of 44.3 ml/kg/min. This placed me well into the above average range for a 38 yr old male. I have RMR testing on Friday morning.
As an amateur athlete, the benefit as I see it is that I will know my resting heart rate which will give me my minimum calorie burn/day. I should then be able to accurately predict my weight loss/gain based on exercise. I also now know at which heart rate my body most efficiently burn fat (for me the target is 147 bpm which burns 7.6 fat for every 10.4 KCal/Min).
The Trainer/tester should be able to also offer a detailed program to expand zone 2 for even better fat burning capability.
The moral of the story is that good anaerobic exercise is not going to be at my heart's maximum rate. I was also somewhat surprised at how close the pre-programmed Polar heart rate monitors were at estimating the best fat burn range by simple resting rate tests. For reference, I paid $170 for the total test package which includes follow-up testing in 12 weeks along with 12 weeks of access to a Nutritionist.
