Josh Perez Fitness

This article was posted on Yahoo health earlier today and I don’t agree with this myth. It was a post written regarding “Don’t Believe the Health Hype: Six Fallacies Debunked” By Maxine Hurt. The other 5, I do agree with except for the very first one. You can burn more fat effectively at “Your” own specific heart rate zone! Of course if you listen to the cardiovascular recommendation of a heart rate zone, it will not work due to it’s the average for everybody. Are you average? Absolutely not, your as unique as having your own thumbprint, so we want to cater to that.

We want to work smarter not harder and more effective. According to Michael Brazeal, “you don’t need to be in a target heart zone and all you need to do is work hard.” I say pending the clients goal and what they want to accomplish in X amount of time, a target heart zone will be very effective towards their goal of burning fat. Do you want to hope to burn fat for 30 minutes – on the cardio, or do you want to know your burning fat for 30 minutes? Here is 2 posts of mine regarding a The Fat Burning Zone and Target Heart Rate Zone.

Here is the original article:

1. I should exercise in my “fat burning zone.”
You hop on the elliptical machine at the gym and study the console’s colorful diagram. Without making a single rotation, the words “Fat Burning Zone” cause your heartbeat to accelerate. A special zone that allows me to burn more fat? Perfect! So you accelerate, check your heart rate, then decelerate and peddle cautiously to ensure you never leave the fat burning zone. According to Michael Brazeal, Director of Fitness and Exercise Physiologist at the California Health and Longevity Institute at the Four Seasons Hotel Westlake Village, California, you’ve been misled. “Yes, at low levels of exercise, a greater percentage of the calories burned come from fat, whereas at higher levels of exercise intensity a greater percentage of the calories burned come from carbohydrate combustion. But the bottom line is that it’s all about calories and creating an energy imbalance—your body doesn’t care where the calories come from.”

Brazeal explains that when he measures his clients’ resting metabolic rates (the energy required to perform vital body functions such as respiration and heart rate), a higher percentage of calories burned come from fat combustion. This means that you would be in the optimal “fat burning zone” when watching TV on the couch or lying in a hammock by the beach. Obviously, that’s not going to help you with your health goals. Instead, Brazeal, whose advice is evidence-based and substantiated by scientific research, tells his clients, “Exercise vigorously. Get the most out of it.”

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