Exercise VS Endurance VS fat burning

ninerbuff

Here's the truth: You burn more fat at rest than ANY other time. Your body uses fat when it's resting to keep your metabolic system going. This goes on ALL DAY LONG. So to burn more fat, you have to raise your RMR (resting metabolic rate). And to do that you need some high intensity exercise. Whether it be from cardio or hard heavy lifting (I do both), this will make your body compensate for the stress by raising your RMR.
While longer duration exercise at very moderate level does burn fat WHILE working out, it DOESN'T raise RMR. And you can easily burn 1000 calories at rest. Some even burn 2000 calories at rest. How much can you burn in a long duration exercise, say 1 hour, at moderate pace? 300 calories?
Do HIIT!!!!









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poisongirl6485

So what about people who are short on time to work out? I can only workout on break at work, which is 30 minutes. Not much time to go longer for more fat burning...

Jeff92se

read the post above yours.

Elizabeth_C34

What Azdak said.

Workout for fitness.

carrie_eggo

bump

Silverkittycat

This whole subject is mainly an exercise in tail chasing (which would probably be more effective for fat loss than this discussion).

Repeat after me:

The fuel substrate mixture burned during exercise has no significant effect on weight loss.

The fuel substrate mixture burned during exercise has no significant effect on weight loss.

The fuel substrate mixture burned during exercise has no significant effect on weight loss.

The fuel substrate mixture burned during exercise has no significant effect on weight loss.

The fuel substrate mixture burned during exercise has no significant effect on weight loss.

A balanced workout should include endurance cardio, what I call tempo cardio, higher-intensity interval training, and resistance training.

A consistent, balanced program of quality exercise combined with appropriate eating habits will result in improved fitness and weight loss.

It doesn't have to be any more complicated than that.

Excellent post.