[FitDream] "Fat Burning" What?
Published: Fri, 03/27/09
 Volume 2 Issue 4
March 26, 2009
  Hi !Who doesn't want their workout to be "Fat Burning?" Yet I find I get asked many questions about this terminology.
Today's feature article, "Fat Burning" What? is dedicated to just that. This turned out to be a rather lengthy article, so I've included the first half it it in today's FitDream Ezine with a link to the rest provided. Hope you find it informative!
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Hearts, Hugs and Stars,    Today's Feature
Article: "Fat Burning" What?
More Blog Posts Since Last Week's Issue:
(Food) Diary of a (Totally Sane) Fit Coach: After last week's "Diary of a Mini-Fast", I received several requests to share what a day of eating looks like for me! Happy to comply.
 Fat Burning What?by Lani Muelrath, M.A.
Just what does it mean, anyway?
"Fat burning workout!"..."Workout To Blast Away Belly Fat !"
The lure of the "fat burning workout!" via emails and newsletters comes across my desk often, as you can imagine. And I know you see it a lot, too!
Yet I've seen this phrase create a great deal of confusion among those who aspire to fitness and fat loss and the love without the handles.
Yes, exercise is important when it comes to helping you "burn fat". It creates an extremely valuable fat burning effect. And I applaud my fitness pro colleagues for encouraging us to move as an important tool to reducing fat stores. But....
Which Brings Me To My Point...of Clarification
exercise.
It is rather the overall consumption of calories and conditioning of the body during your exercise that are key.
A workout isn't so much "fat burning" as it can create, more or less, a
"fat burning effect". And yes, some techniques and intensities do this
better than others.
When
you are exercising, though there are some fatty acids being utilized in
the fuel "mix" for your muscle's demands, much of the energy that you
are using is coming from that which has been stored in your muscles and liver in the form of glycogen.
This
fuel source is much more readily available than fat. It also allows
your body to continue to protect its most prized fuel back-up resource,
fat.
Your body does utilize fat and glucose in slightly different ratios depending on the intensity
of your activity, whether you're in couch potato mode or sprinting
intervals. Fat requires a complex pathway to be accessed, released and
utilized as energy for your exercise. So the more intense the
exercise, generally speaking, the more you are utilizing glycogen
stores vs. fat stores.
Sounds like an argument for lower intensity exercise, doesn't it? Not so fast.
Burning "Fat" Or "Sugar"? Again, yes, it's true that depending on the intensity of your exercise as well as the duration
of activity, among other factors (your fitness condition, for example,
being one of them), you are utilizing a greater or lesser amount of
fatty acids for fuel; this is known as "lipid metabolism".
Glycolysis is
the term for the conversion of glycogen, as stored in the muscles and
liver, for energy. (As noted above, there are other sources of energy
for our activity as well, but for the purposes of our discussion, let's
stick with these.)
First: yes, lipids are accessed more deeply when it comes to sustained exercise of lower intensity, during the exercise itself.
And yes, if the anaerobic threshold is approached, then there isn't enough time for the body to "aerobicize" much in the form of fatty acids for fuel.
However,
these simple facts have led to misunderstanding about the overall
effect of difference intensities of exercise in general, when it comes
to "fat burning". Let me explain.
When It Comes Right Down To It Basically, here's what it comes down to....
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