To lose weight and get in shape, you must have a good diet and exercise regularly to burn fat. The first thing you should understand about exercise is that just because you're burning calories doesn't mean you're burning fat. Your main focus should be on reducing body fat when you exercise, and you cannot lose body fat just by burning calories. When we exercise, our body starts burning calories, but the calories we burn are calories from carbohydrates present in our system. In order to burn calories from your stored fat, your body needs the presence of oxygen. Your body needs a certain amount of oxygen to burn fat and the only way for you to measure the amount your body needs is to maintain your target heart rate during exercise. Please understand that if you continue to burn calories only from carbohydrates, you will lose most of the "water weight" that slows down your metabolism. Also, think of the calories you burn from carbohydrates as energy calories. If you lose too many energy calories your muscles will not receive enough energy to increase your metabolism which indirectly burns fat. So you should increase your caloric 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 phases before reaching the point where you are burning fat. You may have heard people say that during the first 10 minutes of exercise you are only burning sugar (carbohydrates), not fat. This is true to an extent. I'm saying this because if you're not working hard enough to get your body to need more oxygen, you're still burning sugar after 10 minutes; Or you're working too hard and you can't supply enough oxygen to your body to burn fat. When you exercise, you should walk at a steady pace (not too fast, not too slow) so that your body will use your stored fat (not carbohydrates or sugar) as its energy source. Also remember that just because you have reached the fat burning stage doesn't mean you will stay there. Once again staying at the fat burning stage depends on whether you are moving at the right pace for your body or not. Make sure you are within your target heart rate range.
burn fat calories with ease
The only way to continue burning fat calories even hours after you've finished a workout is through weight training anaerobic exercises. 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 you are burning during weight training exercises are mostly calories from carbohydrates 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.
You must do aerobic (cardio) and anaerobic (weight training) exercises to make your body the ultimate fat burning machine.
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