How to burn the body fats?
It’s been a month since I started my diet regimen. Though, I am losing weight. I noticed that my Body Fat are not improving that much - from 41% to 40.7%. I’ve been adhering to my diet and exercise plan.
Then, I read Mark Allen on Heart Rate Training and took note of the paragraph below.
Then came the heart rate monitor. A man named Phil Maffetone, who had done a lot of research with the monitors, contacted me. Phil said that I was doing too much anaerobic training, too much speed work, too many high end/high heart rate sessions. I was forcing my body into a chemistry that only burns carbohydrates for fuel by elevating my heart rate so high each time I went out and ran.
So he told me to go to the track, strap on the heart rate monitor, and keep my heart rate below 155 beats per minute. Maffetone told me below this number that my body would be able to take in enough oxygen to burn fat as the main source of fuel for my muscle to move. I was going to develop my aerobic/fat burning system. What I discovered was a shock.
That’s when I got to be interested in heart rate monitors. Recently, I purchased a Polar Watch Model-WM41 from ebay.ph. I started using it yesterday, entered my weight and height information. The watch limits my target heart rate zone to 112-140 zone. And, yesterday when I wore the strap during the Body Jam class at Fitness First North Edsa I noticed that my heart rate would go as high as 180! All throughout the dance I was feeling tired and grasping for breath. Plus, I noticed that although my exercise diary on my watch logged the 55minutes exercise program it only acknowledge 11minutes of the exercise time to be in the zone.
I wonder what it meant. Then, going back to Mark Allen on Heart Rate Training. I realized I might be into carbohydrates burning zone rather than fat burning zone. Take into account that I am on my First Phase of the South Beach Diet with is a no carbohydrates phase. Perhaps that’s the reason I was losing weight rapidly. But still my Body Fat did not decrease that much.
So, this morning during the Body Jam class I closely monitored my heart rate and every time I would go above 140 I would slow down. Oh yes, I still have the energy to give it all. But, I am planning to burn fat and to do that I should not go above 140. So, that’s what happen and you know what. I noticed that I sweat more and don’t feel that tired and grasping for breath. Maybe, I should continue doing this for the next few days and see how it will take on my Body Fat Percentage.