Answer To Your Fitness Questions" />What Burns More Fat? High Intensity Or Low Intensity Workouts?
August 28, 2007
There are many different programs that are through video or dvd’s that feature low-intensity workouts. These workouts claim to maximize your fat- burning. The theory is that low-intensity aerobic exercise will burn more fat as the energy source than any other fuel source, in turn you will lose more body fat.
It is true that in low-intensity workouts use a higher percentage of fat is burned as the fuel source, about 60% is from fat versus 35% burned in the high intensity workout, BUT in the final analysis high-intensity exercise still burns more calories from fat.
For example: say you workout for 30 in low-intensity exercise at a level of 50 percent of maximum exercise capacity, you will burn approximately 200 calories with 120 of the calories coming from fat.
Conversely, if you work for 30 minutes in high-intensity, 75% of your maximal exercise capacity, you will burn approximately 400 calories. Using 35 percent it is 140 calories have come from the storage fat.
Yes, the more intense exercise burns more, but you still have to take in other variables that may restrict you from working that high, such as overweight, diabetes, asthma and others.
We just have to remember that the low-intensity workouts still are a very good way to lose storage fat, you just have to go a little longer.
Always bear in mind that you lose weight and body fat when you burn more calories than you take in!!
You know, the balance thing????
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You are right. Most people will benefit from both types of workouts and those who are unable to do high intensity workouts still have good way of burning calories with low intensity cardio.
I generally recommend doing exercises that involve your whole body to burn the most calories in the shortest amount of time.