Was I behind the door for this.........

Azdak

I feel like I was behind the door when this information was passed out and it's still a little confusing to me. I am going to lay it out and can someone tell me if I am right or how this works. I have been busting my hump for the last few months with exercise, jogging, strength training, circuit training, you name it. Now I think I am finding out that I wasn't really doing fat burning workouts, like I had my HR too high and not in the body fat burning zone. I know I would still lose fat, but is it possible that the workouts I have been doing have been great for me underneath but not really burning off that top layer of fat covering what will be an awesome bod? I am gonna be ticked if I have been overexercising and missed the opportunity to really get in some fat burning exercises because I thought it didn't matter as long as you moved your butt as hard as possible.

The fuel you burn during an exercise session is irrelevant when it comes to long term weight (fat) loss. First of all the difference in actual fat metabolized between a "fat burning" workout and a higher intensity workout is too trivial to even think about. Second, it doesn't make any difference what your body burns during exercise--it compensates the rest of the day anyway.

In the long run, most people will get the best results from a balanced program that includes effective strength training, endurance cardio, tempo cardio (which I am seeing referred to as "high (er?) intensity steady state), and high-intensity interval cardio. It has always been that way and none of the extraneous noise that periodically erupts in the fitness universe changes that fact.

stephanielynn76

Honestly, I'm never in the "fat burning zone" of my hrm and I defintely was burning fat.

Ditto.