Ever notice the color-coded exercise "zones" listed
on cardio machines? There's a "fat burning" zone, an "endurance
training" zone, and so forth. The colors look nice, but how many times
have you chosen the "fat burning" zone and watched as your fat stayed
put? That's because fat-burning programs keep you at a lower intensity
level, when to lose weight you really need to burn big calories. That
only happens when you exercise at a higher-intensity level.
Let's
look at the math. In a half hour of low-intensity exercise, you might
burn 100 calories. Of those 100 calories, roughly 80 percent will be fat
calories, meaning that you've burned 80 fat calories. In a half hour of
high-intensity exercise, you might burn 300 calories. Of those 300
calories, roughly 33 percent will be fat calories, meaning that you've
burned around 100 fat calories.
Get it? Even though the
percentage of fat calories burned is higher during a low-intensity
workout, you're burning so many more total calories during a
high-intensity workout that, percentages aside, you are still burning
more fat calories — not to mention the 200 additional carb calories.
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