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Originally Posted by getfit  Hi Papa Sil,
I’m not sure about if having a lower HR, the same amount of time as a high HR will make a difference. But you would burn fat easier by doing exercise consistently for longer periods of time than if you did short hard efforts that make your HR go up but then stop all the sudden.
I hope this can help a little,
Mitch |
I disagree with this completely. HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) which is in essence sprinting for a fixed period of time, then going at a much slower rate for a fixed period of time and going back and forth over and over, has been proven in numerous studies to burn more fat in a shorter period of time than a longer steady state form of exercise.
To answer the original poster's question, I'd try to keep your heart rate up as much as possible for a given period of time over a slower rate, and for better fat burning to use interval training as I mentioned above.