The Debate Of Slow Versus Interval Training Cardio

The question regarding which is more effective for fat burning

, slow or interval training cardio just keeps on raging. But are we missing the real point?

Here is the question (or a version of it) that I get asked over and over. I have heard that a slow, but long walk, 10km or so is as effective for fat burning as high intense cardio workout. Is this true?

This question is like a research paper. Is it as effective for fat burning; lets quantify that. Yes, it is, but we have to put time in there, the amount of time spent exercising to the amount of calories burnt, so when you say is a long and slow walk as effective for fat burning as high intense cardio, youre talking about the fuel thats burned, are you burning fat or are you burning glycogen, so in that aspect of the equation or the question I would say yes, maybe even more so, because the percentage of fuel that comes from the oxidization of fat is on par or more. However, if youre looking at the overall grand scheme of things when you say if you phrase it this way and said, Is a long but slow walk as good for losing weight as high intensity cardio, itd be a different thing, because if you burned 100% only fat and you only burned 50 calories walking slow, but you burned 1,000 calories in a high intense cardio (ragardless of source), you would lose more weight doing a high intense cardio session.

What you have to take into account is at the end of your cardio for that day how many calories did you burn? Thats the more important factor. If you go for a long, slow walk for 10km and you end up burning, say, 400-500 calories based on your body weight or whatever and you did high intense cardio for, say, 20 minutes and burned 200 calories, then the long, slow walk was better for you on that day.

There are a lot more variables in there as far as, say, the intense cardio workout may be causing muscular growth and stuff like that and the hormonal responses are much different between the two, but at the end of the day the easiest way to answer that question is to say the cardio thats best for you is the cardio that allows you to burn the most calories.. if youre after that loss.

A lot of people get into the argument of which is better for results and then they go into the hormonal responses, overtraining, catabolic this and that and percentages of whether youre burning fat or whether youre burning sugars and so on and so forth and they forget about the fact that at the end of the day you just want to create a deficit in order to lose weight or fat.

The fact of the matter is that you'd burn a heck of a lot more fat getting out and doing ANY form of cardio than getting stuck doing research all day and not getting any done because you can't figure out which is most effective. Get it done and go for a run.

by: Ray Burton

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