Hueyduck wrote:
|| Hi everyone,
||
|| I just bought a device to measure my heart rate monitor, and I find
|| it
|| so much fun to be able to see precisely how effective my activity is.
|| Anyway, I have some questions for the cardiotraining specialists out
|| the
||
|| - for those who took the time (and spent the money) to check their
|| *real* maximal heart rate, did you find a big difference between the
|| results and the theoric "220-age" number ?
I've found it to be pretty close for me, but others frequently find
otherwise.
||
|| - The instruction manual of my monitor says that in orderto use fat,
|| you need to be between 60 and 70 bpm. They say it is a light to
|| moderate effort. Is there any real proportion between heart rate
|| beating and calorie burned ? I guess so but it's not so obvious to
|| me.
This old notion has been challenged a lot in recent times. If you train in
the range of 60 to 70%, you may indeed burn more fat, but you don't expend
that much energy. On the other hand, if you mix really hard intervals of
training with low intervals, you can end up burning more energy in the same
amount of time. In addition, according to the theory, you can ramp up your
body's use of energy for a longer period of time after the exercise. So, if
you do the latter (called high-intensity interval training, or HIIT) you can
get (so the theory goes) up to 9 times more fat burned. But rather than
reading my 2-minute description, do some reading of your own:
http://www.wsu.edu/~strength/hiit.htm
http://www.stumptuous.com/cardio.html
http://www.wsu.edu/~strength/bodycomp.htm
http://www.cbass.com/FATBURN.HTM
and if you try it, please report back on your progress.
||
|| Thanks for your answers and have a nice evening.
||
||
|| Huey
||
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|| Huey / started LC October 27th 2002
|| (1.74 m) 5ft 8 inch tall
|| lbs : 234 / 186 / 147 (-47) mini-goal : 182 lbs by August 20th 2004
|| kg : 106.4 / 84.9 / 67 (-21) mini-goal : 83 kg by August 20th 2004
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