We are at the key date to start the famous "bikini operation". There are many who with the beginning of the year are encouraged to lose those extra kilos, in order to show off their physique in summer. You know that we are not in favor of doing temporary diets or routines, we must follow a healthy lifestyle every day of the year.
Let's start from the basis that you want to get in shape and eliminate those love handles that bother you so much. What type of training should I do? How long should it take to burn fat?
Fat, our fuel
If we are overweight or obese, it is main to eliminate the extra kilos with aerobic and anaerobic exercise training. Many focus exclusively on doing long cardio workouts, as popular belief has led us to think that it is the only way to lose weight.
Our body uses fat for fuel, but up to a certain interval of time. Then the reserves will pull on the muscles and we will be training counterproductively. Forget the myth that only calories and fat are burned after 20 minutes.
It is advisable not to spend the 40 minutes of cardio to burn fat, then we will start to gain muscle tissue reserves. It is a matter of metabolism and functioning of the body, just as we cannot decide what fat we want to eliminate. Our body eliminates it in a general way, do not think that you will reduce your belly by doing abdominal exercises like crazy.
We also burn glucose and ATP
When we do some physical activity we are not only burning fat, depending on the intensity of the exercise, glucose and ATP molecules are also burned. If the intensity is medium-high, we will be burning mainly glucose ; If we perform fast or high intensity movements (sprints, HIIT) we will use ATP molecules for a few seconds; and if the intensity is low and maintained over time, when our glucose reserve is depleted, we will begin to burn fat .
In all three cases the 3 will be used as fuel , only to a greater or lesser extent each. It is a mistake to think that we can exclusively use one. Suppose you are running, first you will use glucose as your main fuel (you will burn fat, but little); if you lower the intensity you will start to burn fat (and glucose in less quantity); If you sprint, you will use ATP molecules (and less fat and glucose).
Our body is a perfect machine, but we do not have the control to tell it what fuel we want to use. Don't get obsessed with doing cardio to lose fat. It is important that you include strength training to promote the growth of your muscles. Believe it or not, this also helps a lot in fat burning.
