Fat Burning zone vs Cardio zone
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Many people are confused about fat burning zone and cardio training zone. Confusion is about how we are burring more fat in fat burning zone, or aerobic burning zone, which is a easier zone to do the workout. Let me discuss a little more on this issue.
When you just walk at a good speed, and your heart beat is within 60 to 70 percentage of your maximum heart rate, you are in fat burning zone. At this zone, you can take breath easily, and should not feel much tired. If you start to increase your pace and start to run, your heart rate will increase, and reaches as high as 150-160 per minutes, you are entering cardio training zone.
Yes, it is truth that you burn higher percentage of fat in fat burning zone, but total calories you burn in fat burning zone is much lower than that in cardio training zone. How? Let me give you an easy calculation. Suppose you burn 100 calories in walking, and 70% of that comes from fat burning. So you burn 70 calories on fat. Now on the same time you walked, you can burn around 200 calories if you do the workout in cardio training zone. So here main body uses mainly carbohydrate for its energy. So suppose you burn around only 40% (actual percentage depends on your speed), so still it will be 200X.40 = 80 calories. So you are still burning more fat calorie during cardio zone workout.
So if running is not difficult for you, it is always a better option.
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