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I'm off to the gym and since I don't eat breakfast I've just had a 'special K' bar with 90j or something energy in it. Is that alot for a little bar and an hours workout or not?
Also, when i'm working out, if my heart rate is between 100-150 thats fat burning and if my heart rate is over 150 thats cardiovascular. Is that right?
As you can see i'm new to the gym!
I'll leave Mr Bite to type it.
> VenomByte wrote:
> True stuff
>
> Very true, you only need look at sprinters to see this.
>
> These people build power and train to work at pretty much as close to
> 100% effort for a short period of time, yet they have little to no fat
> on them.
>
> Could go into long-term and short-term fat stores and stuff too,
> but...meh?
What if someone wanted to know? you'd be depriving them. Do you want that on your conscience?
> True stuff
Very true, you only need look at sprinters to see this.
These people build power and train to work at pretty much as close to 100% effort for a short period of time, yet they have little to no fat on them.
Could go into long-term and short-term fat stores and stuff too, but...meh?
I will say that those percentages are for the average person.
If the average person works-out at 60% of their max heart rate they can go for long enough to burn a fair few calories and fat off. If they work-out at 80% they are unlikely to go for very long at all.
On the chart at the gym, it says that if you work out at a higher intensity it's about 85%.
> Lawrence wrote:
>
> Also means we never get to share a bottle of wine with a meal
> so I got to drink the bottle by my self...oh well!
>
> Such hardships. The little self sacrifices we have to make :D
Yup..tho it has to be done. Can't be wasting no wine (or waiting til he's finished eating either)
> It's hard to say exact numbers though, because you'll need your max
> heart rate and then 60% of it is fat burning and 80% is cardio.
On top of this it's worth noting that the terms 'fat burning' and 'cardio' are a little misleading.
Every time you exercise, you burn off both stored calories (fat) and the energy reserves currently in your body. At a higher intensity, a smaller percentage of what you burn comes from fat, but since you'll also be burning far more calores in total, it may well be that you'll actually burn off more fat.
e.g, suppose at 60% heart rate (fat burning zone) you burn off 500 calories per hour, 60% of which are from fat. Thus you'd burn 300 calories of stored fat per hour. At 80% of max heart rate suppose you burn off 1000 calories per hour, but only 40% come from stord fat. Thus you'd burn 400 calories per hour of stored fat.
So at higher intensity, you can still actually (and most likely will) still burn off more fat per hour. Additionally you'll have burnt off far more in total, thus you'll gain that much less fat from your existing excess calories being deposited on your body.
Make sense?
Plus your metabolism will be raised for several hours after exercise, so you'll burn off more that way too.
> Also means we never get to share a bottle of wine with a meal
> so I got to drink the bottle by my self...oh well!
Such hardships. The little self sacrifices we have to make :D