You might be burning calories, not fat.
A thin between burning calories vs. burning fat
To lose weight and stay healthy, you need to eat a healthy diet and exercise regularly. However, losing weight is even more difficult. You can exercise for an hour in the gym, but that doesn’t mean burning fat. It can simply burn calories. When exercising, reducing fat, the main goal is to reduce body fat, and burning calories alone is not enough to lose body fat.
When we exercise, our body begins to burn calories, which our body stores as carbohydrates. The presence of oxygen is necessary for your body to burn calories from stored fat. Your body needs a certain amount of oxygen to start burning fat, and the only way to determine how much your body needs is to catch up with your target heart rate during exercise.
Keep in mind that simply burning calories from carbohydrates will result in the loss of large amounts of “water” and slow metabolism. Think of the calories burned from carbohydrates as energy calories.
If your workout routine doesn’t burn more calories, that extra calories don’t that stay in the body doesn’t allow your muscles to improve your metabolism, and fat burns while you rest. As a result, you need to increase your calorie intake to replace the energy calories burned during the execution of your exercise program.
Your body goes through several stages during aerobic exercise before reaching the point of burning fat. People will say that during the first 10 minutes of activity, they burn only sugar (carbohydrates), not fat. To some extent, this is correct.
If your body does not exercise hard enough to require more oxygen, or if you exercise too much and your body does not provide enough oxygen to burn fat, it will continue to burn sugar for more than 10 minutes.
When exercising, you need to maintain a constant pace (not too fast or too slow) so that your body can use stored fat as energy instead of carbohydrates and sugar. Just because you have reached the fat-burning stage does not mean that you will stay there.
If you move at a pace that suits your body, you will stay in the fat-burning stage. Always aim for your target heart rate while working out to reap the full benefits of the workout. At rest, you can burn fat calories.
Weight training, an anaerobic workout, is the only technique for burning calories from a fatty time after exercising. Exercise with weights is essential to reduce resting fat. Weight training is a type of anaerobic exercise that burns more calories than aerobic exercise.
The calories you burn during weight training are primarily carbohydrate calories (that is, you need to consume more calories per day to maintain your energy levels). In contrast, the calories you burn at rest are primarily fat.
Weight training boosts metabolism, which uses stored fat as energy, so it burns fat even when you’re not exercising. Transforming your body into an ideal fat-burning machine requires aerobic (aerobic) and anaerobic (weight training) routines.
