The ‘Fat Burning Zone’

15/04/2009 by admin.

I am going to attempt to expel the confusion over the training zone known as the ‘fat burning zone’.  The reason this is called the fat burning zone is because fat is the primary source of fuel burned when exercising at low intensity.  Exercising at this level is not particularly taxing.   

So we now know that low intensity exercise burns a greater percentage of fat during the actual exercise routine.  However, this is the important part… high intensity exercise burns more calories and therefore fat for a period well beyond the exercise session.   

So in short, during a low intensity exercise, you burn more fat but when the session is over, so is the fat burning.  A high intensity session won’t necessarily burn more calories during the session as it would be a shorter session, however, after the session your body is still burning up calories.

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