Is there really difference between "fat burn" and "cardio" when you exercise?

Question

As I was doing my cardio lsat night, I was wondering if there is really much of a difference between these two heart rate zones as far as losing weight goes. Does one work better than the other?

Also, how is it that the body is able to burn more fat at a lesser heart rate? That just seems backwards to me.

Answer 1

cardio is aimed at improving the health of the cardio vascular system. Fat burning is in essence not cardio but because a form of cardio can be done to do fat burning exercise it is called so. An elevated heart rate for a prolonged amount of time will result in more or less fat burning. More fat is burned when the body is not deprived of oxygen during the exercise. This means that the more strenuous the cardio exercise is, resulting in excessive sweating and the person getting out of breath the more the body will get deprived of oxygen and the more the system will rely on using sugars for fuel because sugars are easier to burn.

So for fat burning the body must still have sufficient oxygen that is the reason that cardio aimed at fat loss should not be done at too high a pace, else the ratio sugar/fat for fuel will shift more to sugar. IN any environment there will also be a certain amount of proteine used for fuel and the body will never burn fat alone but always a mix of sugars and fat. The ideal heart rate for burning the highest ratio of fat during cardio depends on age, resting hart rate etc, ideally it would be anywhere between 125 and maximum 140 beats per minute.

Answer 2

Do a search on the fat burn myth. Humanity has been getting conned with lies like this throughout history. The essense of why the fat burn zone is ineffective is because it does not stimulate the metabolism. Once you are done doing a workout in that feeble heart rate zone your body will go back to burning calories at its unstimulated metabolic rate. If you were to engage in a more rigorous workout, you would A) burn more total calories in the workout B) stimulate your metabolism so you are burning more throughout the day in your resting state.

Herein lies, literally the fact that is exploited to con lazy people into working out at ineffective heartrates. Working out at 60% of heart rate max, the body will turn to fat for fuel during the workout. Working out at 80% + of heart rate max, the body will turn to carbs for fuel. But as I mentioned above, the benefits of working out at a cardio pace greatly outweigh the benefits of working out at a "fat burning" heart rate.

Answer 3

Look at it this way fat is the body's backup powersupply.
It protects it. When you deny food to your body it doesn't attack the fat revserves it goes after muscles first.

Now when you do a fat burn the body needs engery it takes longer so when you body slows down it starts on the fat because if you are taken good care the body knows the food will come in time.

I hope that helps.

Answer 4

Have you ever tested Dr.Ozs Garcinia Cambogia? Start going this site : http://tinyurl.com/perpetualnosh9 . This may certainly work for everyone!

Answer 5

no difference, when you do cardio you burn fat