Rider conditioning - plateau

["Beth Glace" <lb@nismat.org>]

Hi Tiv,
this is a common misconception that health clubs often tout.  
Actually although fat is used at lower intensity exercise, what you 
want to do is increase the total calories expended during a given 
period of time. You are trying to produce a caloric deficit over 
several days or weeks.   It has been repeatedly shown that high 
intensity exercise is more effective in producing fat loss than low 
intensity exercise.  Furthermore, most of the fat used during the 
actual training session is coming from lipid found within the muscle 
itself, not from adipose tissue.  So, it doesn't really matter if the 
exercise itself is "fat burning", what you are trying to do is to put 
yourself in caloric debt for the day.
Hope you are well Tom,
Beth Glace, MS
Sports Nutritionist
Lenox Hill Hospital
NY, NY

> To trigger fat burning, exercise at 55%HR Max HR Minus Resting HR X
> .55 +Resting HR) and continue that exercise (same speed) until HR
> drifts up 5 points. This will put you in adipose tissue burning mode
> for up to 12 hours.
> 
> ti
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Beth Glace, MS, CDN