subject: Gold Coast Personal Training Expert Destroys Heart Rate Training Myth [print this page] Gold Coast Personal Training Expert Destroys Heart Rate Training Myth
A lot of individuals have this misconception that they need to stay at a certain heart rate while doing their exercises in order for them to lose fat effectively. You could often hear this from gym trainers who would direct you to use their rows and rows of cardio machines where you would be able to monitor your heart rate.
Most gym trainers would say that you will lose more body fat at 60% - 75% of your maximum heart rate. While it is true that at this heart rate may use more fat as fuel, it requires you to train much much longer to shed the fat you despise.
For example, you have Twin 1 and Twin 2. Twin 2 is at the shore, walking, at 65% of his maximum heart rate. In fact, he is already in the "fat burning zone". Twin 2, on the other hand, is doing successive sprints back and forth at 95% - 100% of his maximum heart rate.
Between Twin 1 and Twin 2, it is Twin 2 who is going to lose fat faster. Why? There are basically three reasons. First, Twin 2 is doing more work and burning more calories during his training. Second, he is also increasing his metabolism much higher and for much longer after his training is finished. Finally, he is disrupting homeostasis a lot more during the workout due to the stop start nature of his training.
You could clearly see that Twin 2 burns a lot of calories with his type of workout as compared to Twin 1, who is in the "fat burning zone." Twin 2 is able to get his metabolism working hard, and continues to burn calories even after he finishes his workout and already resting.
Twin 1, meanwhile, needs to keep on walking and do the same form of training for a longer time, because he burns lesser calories in the process. So he has to wait for quite some time before he would see the same results that Twin 2 achieves through his start-stop nature of training.
It is really very clear why exercises of harder intensities are more advantageous if you are trying to lose weight or burn fat, instead of staying comfortably at the "fat burning zone." You can be assured that even with just a short training, you will be able to lose fat faster.
So if you come across personal trainers or any of the staff at your favorite gym, who try to tell you that you need cardio machines where you could monitor your heart rate as you exercise, and maintain it at 60% - 75% of your maximum heart rate, better not believe it for it is only a myth. Hard intensity training is a sure way to lose fat quicker.
