Burning Fat Vs Burning Calories

To lose weight and get in shape should have a good diet and exercise regularly to burn fat. The first thing to understand about exercise is that just because you are burning calories does not mean that burns fat. Your main focus when you exercise should be losing body fat and can not lose body fat just from burning calories. When we exercise, our bodies begin to burn calories, but the calories that are burned are the calories from carbohydrates in our system. In order to burn calories from stored fat, your body requires the presence of oxygen. There is a certain amount of oxygen the body needs in order to start the fat and the only way to use to measure the amount necessary for your own body is to keep up with your target heart rate during exercise burns. Please understand that if you continue only to burn calories from carbohydrates, lose mostly "water weight" which leads to a decrease in metabolism. Also, think of the calories carbohydrate calories burned as energy. If you lose too much energy calories then your muscles do not receive enough energy to increase your metabolism which indirectly burn fat. Therefore you must increase your calorie intake when you are on an exercise program to replace the calories burned energy. Burning fat calories during exercise During aerobic exercise, the body goes through several stages before reaching the point at which fat is burned. You will hear people say that only burning sugar (carbohydrates) not fat during the first 10 minutes of exercise. This is true to some extent. I say this because it will continue to burn sugar beyond 10 minutes if it is not solving enough for your body to want more oxygen; or you are working too hard and can not provide your body with enough oxygen to burn fat. When you exercise you must move at a steady pace (not too fast, not too slow) so your body will use stored fat (not carbohydrates or sugar) for energy. Also remember that the fact that reached the stage does not mean you will stay there fat burning. Staying at the stage of burning fat once again depends on whether it is moving at a pace that is right for your body. Make sure you are within your target heart rate range. Fat burning calories at rest The only way for you to continue to burn fat calories hours after you finish working out is through anaerobic exercise of weight training. Weight training is the key to fat burning at rest. Weight training is an anaerobic activity that will cause more calories than aerobic exercise burns. The calories burned during weight training exercises are mostly calories from carbohydrates (which means that you should eat more calories per day for energy); but the calories you burn at rest are mostly calories from fat. The reason why fat at rest is because weight training increases your metabolism using stored fat as energy burns. To make your body the ultimate fat burning machine you must do aerobic (cardio) and anaerobic (weights) exercises