Burning Fat Information
Why you Should NOT focus on calories burned during a workout session?
Just yesterday, I read an article talking about how many calories you can burn doing this activity and how many calories you can burn doing that activity.
This only proceeded to remind me again that we need to reevaluate what we are focusing on in our workouts - the duration of the workout or the intensity? The quantity or the quality?
By now I think you know the answer - quality, Quality, QUALITY!
High intensity training, such as interval or sprint training, is far more effective than doing moderate exercise for 1 hour. This is because after your 1 hour of moderate exercise, you are done burning calories from your workout.
But with high intensity training, you will continue to burn calories for up to 24 hours AFTER your workout - even in your sleep! It’s almost like the high intensity training puts your body into calorie-burning autopilot mode, and it is due to the fact that the harder your body works out, the longer it takes for it to recover afterward.
Trainer Alan Aragon sums it up by saying “Caring how much fat is burned during training makes as much sense as caring...
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Exercises to Lose Weight Quickly - How to Best Use Cardio
Like many people who use exercise equipment regularly or semi-regularly, you have probably seen a setting somewhere called fat burning zone or something similar. This zone is touted as the best zone to stay withing while you are exercising.
A good method that many people use is to pick a time frame and intensity for their exercise that allows them to keep within the fat burning zone. It is a matter of trial and error for some time for some people though. Finding the right setting can be tricky at first.
The fat burning zone allows your body to stay within a pre-defined level that forces the individual to exercise at a semi difficult but maintainable pace. The key is to make sure that you can handle the level that you set on the machine that will put you within this zone. You should be challenged but not super intensely.
This zone is designed so that people are able to exercise for a longer period of time at a manageable level so as to cause the body to continue burning fat. This range is supposed to be the best for fat burning and there are many...
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