Burning Fat vs. Burning Calories
by Vernita
Sherman
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To lose weight and get in shape you must have a good diet and
exercise regularly to burn fat. The first thing you must understand about
exercise is that just because you are burning calories does not mean you
are burning fat. Your main focus when you exercise should be losing body
fat, and you can’t lose body fat just from burning calories. When we
exercise, our bodies will start burning calories, but the calories that
are burned are the calories from carbohydrates in our system. In order to
burn calories from your stored fat, your body requires the presence of
oxygen.
There is a certain amount of oxygen that your body needs in order to
start burning fat and the only way for you to measure the amount needed
for your own body is to keep up with your target heart rate during
exercise. Please understand that if you continue to only burn calories
from carbohydrates, you will lose mostly “water weight” which leads to a
decrease in your metabolism. Also, think of the calories that are burned
from carbohydrates as your energy calories. If you lose too much energy
calories then your muscles will not receive enough energy to increase your
metabolism which indirectly burn fat. Therefore you must increase your
calorie intake when you are on an exercise program to replace your burned
energy calories.
Burning Fat Calories during exercise
During
aerobic exercise, your body goes through several stages before it reaches
the point where you are burning fat. You will hear people say that you are
only burning sugar (carbohydrates) not fat during the first 10 minutes of
exercise. This is true to a certain extent. I say this because you will
continue to burn sugar past the 10 minute mark if you are not working out
hard enough for your body to want more oxygen; or you are working out too
hard and you can’t supply your body with enough oxygen for fat burning.
When you exercise you must move at a steady pace (not too fast, not too
slow) so your body will utilize your stored fat (not carbohydrates or
sugar) as its energy source. Also remember that just because you reached
the fat burning stage does not mean you will stay there. Staying at the
fat burning stage once again depends on if you are moving at a pace that
is right for your body. Make sure that you are within your target heart
rate range.
Burning Fat Calories at rest
The only way for
you to continue to burn fat calories hours after you have finished working
out is through the anaerobic exercise of weight training. Weight training
is the key to burning fat at rest. Weight training is an anaerobic
activity that will cause you to burn more calories than aerobic exercise.
The calories that you are burning during weight training exercises are
mostly calories from carbohydrates (meaning you must eat even more
calories per day for energy); but the calories you burn at rest are mostly
calories from fat. The reason you are burning fat at rest is because
weight training increases your metabolism which uses your stored fat as
energy.
To make your body the ultimate fat burning machine you
must do aerobic (cardio) and anaerobic (weight training) exercises.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
This article was written by Vernita Sherman of Ultimate Fat
Burning Secrets. Ultimate Fat Burning Secrets is an online resource
dedicated to exposing fat burning secrets that weight loss companies are
keeping from you. Vernita focuses on teaching you the truth about how to
permanently lose weight the healthy way at http://www.ultimatefatburningsecrets.com/
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