Top Burning Fat Vs Burning Calories

If you want to lose weight and stay fit then you should take good diet and exercise regularly to burn fat. The first and foremost thing you should understand about exercise is that just because you're burning calories doesn't mean you're burning fat. Your main focus during exercise should be to reduce body fat. Burning calories alone cannot reduce body fat. When we exercise, our body starts burning calories, but the calories that are burned 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 the energy calories you burn. 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'll still be 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 finishing a workout 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 you're burning during weight training exercises are mostly calories from carbohydrates (meaning you need to 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. You must do aerobic (cardio) and anaerobic (weight training) exercises to make your body the ultimate fat burning machine.