Treadmill for fat loss

charlieaulert

Hi All,

I’m looking for a good fat burning treadmill routine. I’ve been weight training for a few years, but this time around I want to get physically fitter as well as getting lean. (Mainly due to football). I’ve been running on the treadmill a few times a week now and am comfortable with 30 minutes at a fairly quick pace. Sometimes I’m probably going too quick to be in the ‘fat burning zone’.

Ideally I’d like to burn fat and try to gain some endurance at the same time, my first thoughts are HIIT or incline jogging.

I’m looking to do 4/5 cardio sessions per week with 1 of those being my preseason football training. This is as well as weight training 4-5 times per week.

Any advice would be great,
Thanks!

StealthHealth

There aren't fat/non-fat buring zones. If you're in calorific deficit over a time period you will have burnt fat (and probably lost water and some lean mass too). To get lean you need more calories going out than in. You can achieve that by diet, exercise, or a combination of both.

To gain endurance fitness long, steady state cardio is your friend - HIIT, less so. But you say that you're exercising to improve your football? If that is the case I'd say that improving your endurance is not the goal but rather that you need speed, power, and agility.

With that in mind HIIT does seem like a better match for your goal (all puns intended). But, I personally find HIIT difficult to do on the treadmill - it's much easier as sprint HIITs done outside.

Generally, it looks like you are doing a lot of exercise - without knowing what those exercise sessions entail and the level of exertion in each it's difficult to tell but my guess is that you're doing too much.

Reading between the lines somewhat, but I think you need to decide on what your priority/main goal is - football, aesthetics, general fitness, something else and then train to that, knowing that the other areas may or may not "come along for the ride".

trigden1991

Calorie deficit

mmapags

Exercise for fitness and performance based on your goals. Exercise burns calories.
Calorie deficit for fat loss.
Simple as that.