Cardio Burn
explain the difference between fat burn heart and cardio heart rate?
why am i not burning fat when i’m working at my cardio heart rate? what about interval training? does that not burn fat?
You are burning fat at a cardio heart rate, and don’t let anybody tell you differently. That is a huge misconception in the fitness industry. Every kind of training, whether it’s interval or otherwise has the potential to burn fat, it’s how much fat is burned that makes the difference between one activity and the next.
Low-intensity exercise is not as effective as high-intesity exercise at burning calories. High-intensity exercise is not as effective (percentage wise) as low-intensity exercise at burning fat calories. Regardless, high-intesity exercise always wins the race at burning more total fat calories in the end.
Calories are an important consideration since you need to be in a daily calorie deficit to lose weight. Low-intesity walking typically burns a greater percentage of fat calories than running. For example, say you walk for 60 minutes and burn 300 total calories. The percentage of fat burned for energy usually averages about 70%. When you take 70% of 300 this means you’ve burned 210 fat calories. BUT jogging burns average 40% of calories from fat, so if you jogged the same duration (60 min) then you’ll have burned likely over 600 calories. If 40% of those come from fat, that’s 240 calories. So even though you’re burning a lower percentage of fat calories when you jog, it is still a greater amount of fat calories and total calories in the end which helps maintain a daily calorie deficit and accordingly a greater chance at weight loss.
The problem with high-intesity exercise is that it’s typically harder mentally and physically so it’s difficult to keep up with it unless you program yourself and commit to a tough workout every week. Age and health are also factors. My best advice is to alternate low-intesity and high-intensity to avoid burn out and make workouts more enjoyable and varied. I train this way as do all my clients with excellent results.
Hope that gives you a better overview on thsi subject.
In the meantime try these useful calculators to assess calorie consumption, and energy expenditure:
Total Energy Expenditure:
http://www.preventdisease.com/healthtools/articles/bmr.html
Calories burned through various activies:
http://www.preventdisease.com/healthtools/tools.html#cbva
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