It’s no secret that there is a correlation between high intensity exercise and weight loss.  A 20-25 minute high-intensity training on a stationary bike burns more fat than you being on a treadmill jogging for 45 minutes.

Intensity training is not easy business and for it to be effective you must engage in it consistently.  Sadly, not many people are up to the challenge of enduring such high-intensity interval exercises on a regular basis.  Hence, this completely negates the claims from the exercise magazines that say, “15 minutes-a-day will give you a great body.”

Intense exercise and weight loss does not mean you’re burning fat.  You do not really need to directly go for fat burning. First off, you should consider how your body processes energy storage. Fat isn’t a permanent fixture of cells it comes and goes according to your body’s fuel requirements.

During the early morning hours your glucose is usually low and fat is your body’s main source of fuel.  After you’ve had your morning breakfast, the amount of glucose in your blood will increase.  This will lead to your insulin storing fat and glucose in its cells. Consequently, your body starts burning blood glucose

When the glucose level in your blood gets low, fat from fat cells are used as fuel. This is what’s called fat burning.   After burning a lot of glucose, your body fat would get its turn to be burnt up since your blood glucose would be low. Hence, in a way, you really do not have to make fat burning your primary goal but instead focus on food fuel burning along with energy balance.

High intensity exercise and weight loss is really the key to burning fat.  It will be a lot more difficult to achieve fat los with low impact cardio.  Low intensity exercises that fall into a certain zone are not rigorous enough to shed fat.

High intensity exercises like weight training or interval training uses more glucose fuel coming from carbohydrates. However, some fat still gets burned during higher intensities. If you exercise that hard long enough, you might be able to burn more, or just the same amount of fat during higher intensity compared to less or equal work at lower intensities.

This after-burn could contribute to an increase in your metabolic rate after undergoing high intensity workouts. Ultimately, your body doesn’t really care what fuel you burn. You get the same results: what you intake in excess of what you’ll be expending is stored as fat, even if there’s a significant metabolic difference among carbohydrate, fat, and protein.

In summary, intense exercise and weight loss is the quickest and most efficient way of burning fat.

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