The resting metabolic rate (VO_{2 rest}) of Silurus meridionalis was measured under treatment of starvation and of maintain ration level (1.5% wt) during 15 d anaerobic exercise training (5 min chasing) and then following 5 d resting at 25℃.Two groups of fish either on fast or feeding at maintain ration level (1.5% wt) but without exercise training were treated as control.VO_{2 rest} of both feeding and fasting control groups were significant decreased during experiment (P<0.05).VO_{2 rest} of fasting training group was significantly increased after 4 to 15 days training (P<0.05) while VO_{2 rest} of feeding training group was relatively unchanged.VO_{2 rest} of both training groups were significantly decreased to the similar level of the control groups after 3 to 5 days without training.It suggested that VO_{2 rest} was increased after 4 to 7 days anaerobic exercise training.While the influence of training was eliminated after 3 to 5 days resting.It also suggested that training had more profound effect on VO_{2 rest} in fasting group than in feeding treatment.