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In the first part of a new miniseries on not just feeling good, but looking good, Coach D walks you through how to understand and improve your metabolism for better body composition.   Metabolism is the total energy usage of your body and all its activities, which can be broken down into three broad categories: Resting activity, or all the processes your body uses to maintain life, such as breathing, circulation, digestion, cellular regeneration, and many others. One way to think about it is the total of all the cellular activity in the body; each cell in your body needs a certain amount of calories to survive and carry out its duty in the body. The total energy burn for all these activities is known as your basal metabolic rate or resting metabolism. Exercise and physical exertion, which is pretty self explanatory. As we mentioned in previous episodes, most exercise and activities burns calories for the duration of the activity. However certain types of high intensity exercise, such as barbell training and