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“No Pain No Gain?”  

Most people wrongly believe that they will not burn fat until they are working out near the point of cardiac distress.  

The fact is that harder is not better, nor will it shed that stubborn fat roll around the mid section. Here’s why:  

Scenario #1: WORKING HARD FOR NO RESULTS: You are working out, however you are not burning fat. This is because your heart rate is too high, thus you are burning carbohydrates (or sugars) not fat. See chart below.

Scenario #2: WORKOUT SABATAGE: You worked out as hard as you could in an attempt to shed fat (by the way shedding fat is different from shedding total weight). After your workout, you arrive home STARVING because you just used all the glycogen stored in your muscles and your body screams; FEED ME NOW!  You open up the refrigerator, start on the top shelf and eat your way down to the apples!  FYI: You just sabotaged everything that you did in your workout to shed fat.  

Scenario #3; MY INJURY: “I can’t train today because I did something to my; back, knee, shoulder, ( add your injury here)____________.”  You were determined to shed that fat roll so you worked out as hard as you could and injured yourself.  The injury limits your activity so you can’t exercise. You become depressed and gain more weight. Note to self: Harder is not better.  

Scenario #4; CALORIE IGNORANGE: You go workout because you are determined to shed that stubborn fat roll. You worked out for an hour, have no idea how many calories you burned, then go home and eat like a Viking – because you just worked out! FYI: This rhymes with Scenario 1 & 2  above.

There are 3,500 calories in 1 lb. of fat. If you don’t use a heart rate monitor you have no idea how many calories you are burning NOR do you know if any of those calories burned were FAT CALORIES.  Also, if you did not add all the calories that you consumed after your workout and throughout the day, then you have no idea if you NET BURNED any fat.  

The truth is that body fat enters into the blood stream and is burned as fuel at the lower ends (aerobic phase) of your heart rate zones. The Fat Burn Zone, as many like to call it, resides more or less below 80% of your Max Heart Rate.  

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Check out the Chart Below:

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