Burning Calories Versus Burning Fat

Burning Calories Versus Burning Fat

Getting that perfect shape and losing weight isn’t an easy task. You need to have the balance of good nutrition along with regular exercises. The foremost point that you need to understand in this is that there is a difference in burning fat and burning calories.

Our main point of focus should be on burning body fat, which is not possible by burning calories as most of us believe.

When we are exercising, it is actually the calories that we are burning, which are actually the calories within carbohydrates in our body. In order to burn calories from he fat stored in our body, there is some oxygen that is required by the body. 

The method to measure this oxygen amount required by our body can be calculated by noticing the target heart rate of your body during the exercise.

Burning carbohydrates calories would mean losing water weight that decreases your metabolism. Also, carbohydrate calories that are burnt are nothing but energy calories that you are losing. Losing these calories in abundance would reduce your energy count and boost up your metabolism that buns fat indirectly.

So, you should increase your intake of calories when you are following any exercise program so that your lost energy is replaced. 

Burning of fat calories at the time of exercising
There are several stages that a body goes through before reaching a point where it is actually burning the fat stored in the boy than the carbohydrates fat. Many of you must have heard people say that during your exercise, you are merely burning fat for the initial 10 minutes; it is only after that when your body asks for oxygen that you start burning the stored fat in your body.

This mark of 10 minutes can even be exceeded if you are not working very hard. Your pace while exercising should be steady, that is to say, not to slow and not to fast so that your stored fat is utilized as the source of energy.

Even if you have reached a fat burning stage doesn’t mean that you will be able to maintain it as it all depends on your pace which should be right enough for you to stay there. You must be within your targeted heart rate range.

Burning of fat calories when at rest
Anaerobic exercise for weight training helps you to burn fat even after the workout. This is the key for burning fat when your body is at rest. This will help you in burning a lot of calories even more than aerobic exercise. The calories that are burnt during this time are mainly carbohydrates calories, but calories that you burn in your resting position are mostly the fat calories.

Now, because you are burning fat, when at rest id due to the fact that weight training enhances your metabolism that utilizes your stored fat in the form of energy. Last but not least, for maximum benefits, you must do both anaerobic and aerobic exercises.