You’ve probably seen dozens of articles talking about staying in your fat burning zone and how you burn more fat while exercising at a certain heart rate. You may have even seen one of those charts showing you where your “target heart rate fat burning zone” is…

Well I can tell you from firsthand experience and research that following that advice is one of the SLOWEST ways to burn body fat.

Here’s why:

Those old school charts deceive people into believing that they are only burning fat while working out in that zone, but that’s simply not true. Although you certainly are burning a higher percentage of fat, you are still using other forms of energy and fuel to keep your body moving.

But, that’s not the biggest myth of all…

The worst part of trying to stay in this fat burning zone is that you have to keep your intensity so low that your total calories burned is fairly insignificant if you’re looking to lose weight.

What that means is if you stay in this “zone” and keep yourself at a lower intensity you will certainly burn a greater percentage of fat, but your total expenditure may only be 100 calories in 20 minutes. Sticking with this example, approximately 75 of those calories may be coming from fat.

Now let’s look at the type of short, high-intensity workouts I recommend to my clients to get results fast.

In the same 20 minutes you’ll burn 200 calories (twice as much as the slower way) and about 125 calories (around 62%) will come from fat. So not only are you burning more total calories, a greater number is actually coming from fat!

How do you do this?

Throw out your fat burning zone articles and charts from 10 years ago and begin by training in an interval fashion. That means getting your heart rate pumping for 20 – 90 seconds and then letting yourself recover before repeating.

The benefit of this type of training is that you not only burn more calories, fat, and tone your entire body, but you also keep your metabolism elevated and burning fat for up to 31 hours!

That means you can say goodbye to long, slow, boring cardio workouts and begin jumpstarting your results with the type of proven, interval based training that I’ve been recommending for years.

It’s faster and you’ll get at least double the results!


Committed to your success,

Stephen Cabral, CSCS, CPT, NS
Author of Fatlossity, Lose5in7 Weight Loss System
Health Consultant for MTV, NutritionData, Diet.com, Gather, EDGE
http://StephenCabral.com
http://Lose5in7.com


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