What Is The Best Fat Burning Exercise?
If I had one dollar for every time someone asked me, “What is the best fat burning exercise”, I’d be a rich man today. The best way to respond to this question is in order to have sustainable fat loss results; you must have several effective exercises to choose from.
The reason I say multiple exercises are best because if there were only one exercise you could do to burn fat, you’d probably get bored of it very quickly and also your body would quickly adapt and become stale after a few short weeks, so you’d get poorer and poorer results from it over time.
While all forms of aerobic activity burn fat, the best method for burning fat – and simultaneously increasing cardiovascular fitness – is high-intensity interval training or HITT.
Performing a series of exercises at intervals of 80-90% MHR (maximum heart rate), or an RPE (Rating of perceived exertion) of 8-9 (very hard), as opposed to maintaining a steady intensity, burns up to 50% more fat than a low-intensity exercise like walking.
But before you rush into it, you must be aware that this type of training is only suitable for very well-conditioned athletes and should not be attempted by beginners.
Once you have built up to it, high-intensity interval training is a very effective way of improving your body composition. Not only does it burn more calories during your workout compared with low-intensity training, it produces the greatest EPOC (excess post-exercise oxygen consumption) and speeds up your metabolic rate for some time after your workout.
While High Intensity Interval Training may be best for fat burning the time of the day you workout at, can also make a difference.
Early in the morning before you eat, your levels of muscle and liver glycogen (stored carbohydrate) are low. If you eat dinner at 7 p.m and you eat breakfast at 7 a.m., that’s 12 hours without food. During this 12-hour overnight fast, your levels of glycogen slowly decline to provide glucose for various bodily functions that go on even while you sleep.
As a result, you wake up in the morning with depleted glycogen and lower blood sugar – the optimum environment for burning fat instead of carbohydrate.
How much more fat you’ll burn is uncertain, but some studies have suggested that up to 300% more fat is burned when cardio is done in a fasted, glycogen-depleted state.
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