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Wiki linked this on 150 Scottish people :
"One study of 150 adults representative of the population in Scotland reported basal metabolic rates from as low as 1027 kcal per day (4301 kJ/day) to as high as 2499 kcal/day (10455 kJ/day); with a mean BMR of 1500 kcal/day (6279 kJ/day). Statistically, the researchers calculated that 62.3% of this variation was explained by differences in fat free mass. Other factors explaining the variation included fat mass (6.7%), age (1.7%), and experimental error including within-subject difference (2%). The rest of the variation (26.7%) was unexplained. This remaining difference was not explained by sex nor by differing tissue size of highly energetic organs such as the brain."
Yukirin
Thanks dude. Yeh, the BMR stuff is the last thing it measures I'm interested in really, but nice to have a basic understanding. Are you aware of what male BMR for our age group (i'm 30) is supposed to be, just out of interest?
It is all about the mass, fat and water % really though. My water % is way over the average.