What do you think burns more body fat?

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I'm not overweight but I was wondering what would burn more body fat: long distance type of workouts with a lot of even-paced long swim sessions or sprint workouts with mainly sprint intervals.
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    Calorie is a measurement of the energy a body of certain weight expends to travel a certain distance. This is incorrect. A calorie is the amount of energy needed to raise 1 gram of water 1 degree Celsius. Reference Nicolas Clement. Speed is a factor that determins how much time it will take to get from point A to point B, and it's effect on energy expenditure is very significantly smaller then distance or weight. This is incorrect. Energy is related exponentially to the inverse of time and linearly to distance. As speed increases, energy increases much more. As distance increases, energy increases at the same rate. Reference Isaac Newton. Heer are some articles elaborating on this: www.runningplanet.com/.../running-versus-walking.html www.runnersworld.com/.../burns-calories-time-distance health.msn.com/.../articlepage.aspx The first article actually explains that if you walk as fast or faster than you run, you will burn more calories than running over the same distance. Their conclusion is that going faster burns more calories than going slow. The second link isn't an article but a thread in runners world's forum. Article 3: "A hundred calories is a standard estimate for the energy required to move a body a mile by walking or running. A heavier body requires more energy (hence, a greater calorie burn) to move. Yet any size body can move with greater intensity to also burn more calories" Article 3 is an explanation that 100 calories per mile is a rule of thumb. This works for most people because most people aren't going to train that hard or want to do any math.
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    Calorie is a measurement of the energy a body of certain weight expends to travel a certain distance. This is incorrect. A calorie is the amount of energy needed to raise 1 gram of water 1 degree Celsius. Reference Nicolas Clement. Speed is a factor that determins how much time it will take to get from point A to point B, and it's effect on energy expenditure is very significantly smaller then distance or weight. This is incorrect. Energy is related exponentially to the inverse of time and linearly to distance. As speed increases, energy increases much more. As distance increases, energy increases at the same rate. Reference Isaac Newton. Heer are some articles elaborating on this: www.runningplanet.com/.../running-versus-walking.html www.runnersworld.com/.../burns-calories-time-distance health.msn.com/.../articlepage.aspx The first article actually explains that if you walk as fast or faster than you run, you will burn more calories than running over the same distance. Their conclusion is that going faster burns more calories than going slow. The second link isn't an article but a thread in runners world's forum. Article 3: "A hundred calories is a standard estimate for the energy required to move a body a mile by walking or running. A heavier body requires more energy (hence, a greater calorie burn) to move. Yet any size body can move with greater intensity to also burn more calories" Article 3 is an explanation that 100 calories per mile is a rule of thumb. This works for most people because most people aren't going to train that hard or want to do any math.
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