Interval Exercise or Slow Burn?
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Join Date: Jul 2010
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I've been exercising weekdays for about a year...elliptical, treadmill, biking and weights. I try to read up on the best use of my time...interval or slow burn for cardio and have seen conflicting information on which burns the most calories in the shortest amount of time. (I know I have to put my time in-try to do 1 hr cardio) The bottom line for me is calories burned...
Anyone have the bottom line on this?
Anyone have the bottom line on this?
If we look at the sessions being of the same length (sorry, didn't read your post properly before the above), you'll be burning more calories in interval training if your speed/watt output is on average higher than that in fat burning training. Ultimately it depends on how much you slack off during the down-intervals.