explain the difference between fat burn heart and cardio heart rate?
April 7th, 2008 | by Michael |
cra_zda_z asked:
because they are not burning fat when i 'm that works to my cardio heart rate? What about interval training? is not that fat dell'ustione?
because they are not burning fat when i 'm that works to my cardio heart rate? What about interval training? is not that fat dell'ustione?
3 Responses to “explain the difference between fat burn heart and cardio heart rate?”
By badgolfer828 on Apr 11, 2008 | Reply
In the fat burn level you body uses fat for energy. If you get into the cardio level your body *can* start to use protein(muscle) for energy. However for a stronger heart and cardiovascular system do the higher heart rate training.
By FitGuy on Apr 11, 2008 | Reply
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:
Calories burned through various activies:
By Roxy21 on Apr 15, 2008 | Reply
In the fat burning zone, your body is working at 55-70% of your max heart rate. In the cardio zone your body is working at 70% and higher. If you want to burn the most calories you need to get your heart rate up and keep it up for at least 30 minutes. All the hype about the fat burning zone is not worth the energy. Bottom line: The higher you get your heart rate up, the more calories you will burn and the more weight you will lose. You will always be burning fat, your body will just be utilizing different stored energy sources. Interval training is an awesome way to get your heart rate up and then recover. You will be burning fat while doing that as well. Just make sure that during your recovery, your heart rate doesn’t drop too low…always keep it elevated up to 60%.
Max heart rate: 220-age
Target heart rate: 220-age multiplied by the intensity 60-90%