Circuits, Fatloss, and heartbeats.

[Nobody]

Hello everyone.

I began my circuits today, and I never quite finished.

But keeping in my that I want fat loss, I realized that at least 50% of my exercise time my heart rate is not even, or just 50% of maximum.

Is it possible to achieve fatloss by working like this for 30 minutes, of do I really need to work the full 30 witha hrt rate of 85~90%?

 

[DeX]

No you do not have to keep it up at that level for the full 30 minutes, if you go look in the HIIT part of the forum, it will explain it better on what you can do...

HIIT FORUM

Fil has a good explaination

HIIT = High Intensity Interval Training
Short name: intervals

Basically consists of alternating intervals of rest and high intensity activity. The idea behind it is to activiate particular energy-utilizing systems in the body. Ideally, this system of training allows you to burn as much fat (if that's your goal) in 1/3rd the time per workout of other systems.

The intervals for activating the fat burning energy system your body is 1:1 - so if you do 20 seconds of easy activity, you do 20 seconds of hard activity (or if you do 1 minute of easy activity, you do one minute of hard activity, and so forth).

Doing at higher ratios (e.g., 1:2, 1:4, 1:6) results in varying combinations of energy systems.