| stanmo |
26 February 2003 02:51 PM |
Perhaps the sprint training isn't the optimum way to burn off the most calories. Alcohol isn't so good either as it's absorbed into the body in a similar way to fat. Sugar is actually preferable, as roughly 70% of it can turn to fat, with the rest being used to metabolise it into that form. Fat is transferred pretty much as is.
After asking advice at the gym, they reckon interval or sprint training is good for fitness, lung capacity, explosive activity, (ie. white twitch muscle fibres which burn the glycogen), but not as good for burning lipids as a long, consistent run at a moderate speed. From what a remember a while ago, it takes a good 20+ minutes to get your body to switch over and start burning fat. I found that aerobics while good for fitness and eyeing up the gals was relatively crap for burning fat as the aerobic workout duration was too short (the instructors who wanted to burn fat used running machines for hours at a time).
Moderate runs (10km) a couple of times a week, with 2 weights sessions began to work for me, I started getting leaner, but then stopped after a nasty bout of flu a month ago...
Your weight is certainly not a problem, I'm 5'7" and 12 stone 7, which according to BMI charts makes me overweight, but I can still make 10km in 50 minutes, and I hate running...
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