http://tracker.dailyburn.com/groups/1667/subjects/2544 <p><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px;"> <div id="credit" class="clearfix" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 12px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #000000; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: #666666;"> <p id="byline" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #000000; font: normal normal normal 14px/1.5 Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Alex Hutchinson</p> <p id="source-dateline" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 11px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #000000; font: normal normal normal 11px/1.5 Verdana, sans-serif; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">From Thursday's Globe and Mail<span class="dateline" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 10px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: #444444; font: normal normal normal 10px/1.5 Verdana, sans-serif; display: block; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Published on Thursday, Aug. 05, 2010&nbsp;</span></p></div> <div class="copy" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #000000; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #000000; font: normal normal normal 11px/1.5 Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="color: #000000;"><span class="first-letter" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #000000; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">T</span>he question</strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #000000; font: normal normal normal 11px/1.5 Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">How hard should I exercise if I want to lose weight?</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #000000; font: normal normal normal 11px/1.5 Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="color: #000000;">The answer</strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #000000; font: normal normal normal 11px/1.5 Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">The famous &ldquo;fat-burning zone&rdquo; is a seductive concept. Keep your workout nice and easy to maximize fat-burning, it argues &ndash; no need to waste time and effort by pushing hard.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #000000; font: normal normal normal 11px/1.5 Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">Unfortunately, this concept suffers from flaws of logic and physiology. But the question of how hard you should exercise in order to lose the most weight remains a complicated one, and there are good reasons to include both very easy and very hard physical activity in your routine.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #000000; font: normal normal normal 11px/1.5 Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">It is true that light exercise burns mostly fat, while hard exercise burns mostly carbohydrate. The crossover point, where you get half your energy from each source, occurs at about 60 per cent of your maximum intensity (though it varies from person to person).</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #000000; font: normal normal normal 11px/1.5 Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</p> <div class="pull offsite-promo clearfix" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: -140px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 140px; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; 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margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #000000; font: italic normal normal 12px/1.3 Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.5; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">The myth of the fat-burning zone</p> <p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #000000; font: italic normal normal 12px/1.3 Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.5; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="grey-chevron throw" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 15px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 0px; 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font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #000000; font: normal normal normal 11px/1.5 Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #000000; font: normal normal normal 11px/1.5 Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">What's missing, though, is how many calories you burn. A leisurely walk that burns 100 calories might take 85 calories from fat and 15 from carbohydrate. You're better off going for a moderate run that burns 500 calories in the same amount of time, with 250 from fat. (Exercise at the highest intensities burns even more calories, but you can't sustain it for as long.)</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #000000; font: normal normal normal 11px/1.5 Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">But there's a more fundamental problem with the fat-burning zone. If you burn mostly carbohydrates during a workout, the calories you consume afterward will replenish those depleted carbohydrate stores. If you manage to rely more on fat during your workout, on the other hand, your carbohydrate stores will remain full. As a result, whatever calories you consume afterward will be stored directly as fat, undoing your fat-burning efforts.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #000000; font: normal normal normal 11px/1.5 Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</p> <div class="pull offsite-promo clearfix" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: -140px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 140px; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; 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vertical-align: baseline; color: #000000; font: italic normal normal 12px/1.3 Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.5; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">Get training schedules, watch videos and learn from the pros</p> <p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #000000; font: italic normal normal 12px/1.3 Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.5; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="grey-chevron throw" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 15px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: initial; outline-style: none; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; 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border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #000000; font: normal normal normal 11px/1.5 Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">This effect was demonstrated by Australian researchers in a study published earlier this year in Cell Metabolism. In mice that were genetically altered to burn fat instead of carbohydrate, unburned carbohydrates were simply converted into fat for storage. The total &ldquo;energy balance&rdquo; remained unchanged, and the mice gained or lost the same amount of weight as normal mice under the same conditions.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #000000; font: normal normal normal 11px/1.5 Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">&ldquo;Your body will use the energy it needs and store the leftover fats, protein or carbohydrates as fat,&rdquo; lead researcher Greg Cooney of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research explained when the study was released. &ldquo;When you do the sums, it's ultimately a matter of calories in and calories out.&rdquo;</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #000000; font: normal normal normal 11px/1.5 Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="color: #000000;">Why you need low-intensity exercise</strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #000000; font: normal normal normal 11px/1.5 Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">The problem with vigorous exercise is that it stimulates appetite hormones to make you hungry &ndash; part of your body's elaborate &ldquo;set-point&rdquo; mechanism to keep your weight stable.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #000000; font: normal normal normal 11px/1.5 Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">One way to get around this trap is with physical activity at a low enough intensity that it doesn't spark hunger.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #000000; font: normal normal normal 11px/1.5 Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">A forthcoming study by University of&nbsp;<a class="iAs" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: initial; outline-style: none; outline-color: initial; font-weight: normal !important; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit !important; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none !important; color: #001f5e !important; float: none; left: auto; right: auto; top: auto; bottom: auto; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; background-color: transparent !important; line-height: normal; text-align: left; position: static !important; display: inline; border-bottom-color: #001f5e !important; margin: 0px;" href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/the-secret-to-weight-loss-workouts-you-may-not-like-the-answer/article1662687/#" target="_blank">Massachusetts<img style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline !important; height: 10px; width: 10px; position: relative; top: 1px; left: 1px; float: none; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/mag-glass_10x10.gif" alt="" /></a>&nbsp;Amherst researcher Barry Braun compared a group of volunteers who sat all day (they even used wheelchairs to visit the bathroom) to a group that didn't sit down at all. The difference in energy expenditure, he told The New York Times, was hundreds of calories &ndash; but the level of appetite hormones and hunger in the two groups remained identical.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #000000; font: normal normal normal 11px/1.5 Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="color: #000000;">Why you need high-intensity exercise</strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #000000; font: normal normal normal 11px/1.5 Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">A Columbia University study published earlier this year found that when subjects were fed a liquid diet until they lost 10 per cent of their body weight, cellular adaptations made their muscle fibres 15-per-cent more efficient at converting energy into force.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #000000; font: normal normal normal 11px/1.5 Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">This may sound like a good thing, but it means that you burn fewer calories when doing the same amount of work after losing weight &ndash; and that pushes you back toward your starting weight.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #000000; font: normal normal normal 11px/1.5 Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">How can you escape this &ldquo;efficiency trap&rdquo;?</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #000000; font: normal normal normal 11px/1.5 Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">The effect appears to be most pronounced at low intensities, so the researchers suggest including some high-intensity exercise in your routine to maximize calorie consumption.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #000000; font: normal normal normal 11px/1.5 Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="color: #000000;">Why you need both</strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #000000; font: normal normal normal 11px/1.5 Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">A recently published study from researchers at the University of Western Ontario compares two groups doing six weeks of training, three times a week.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #000000; font: normal normal normal 11px/1.5 Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">One group did moderate running for 30 to 60 minutes at a time, while the other group did a series of four to six intense 30-second sprints with four minutes of rest. Both groups lost similar amounts of fat and increased aerobic fitness by about 12 per cent.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #000000; font: normal normal normal 11px/1.5 Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">What's interesting is that the endurance group increased the amount of blood their hearts could pump by 9.5 per cent, while the sprinters didn't improve that quantity at all. In other words, the endurance training acted primarily on the heart, while the sprints produced similar gains through adaptations in the muscles.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #000000; font: normal normal normal 11px/1.5 Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">You need both your heart and your muscles to be healthy, so include both types of exercise in your routine.</p></div></span></p> en-us