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