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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No. A calorie is a unit of energy. End of story. It has nothing to do with weight or distance.
Yes, I know, however it is the commonly used colloquial meaning of calorie burning that we are talking about here, rather a strict phyisics definition.
If we wanted to be strict about physics then we need to start talking about joules rather then burning calories anyway.
Here's some information on that, for people that may not know: en.wikipedia.org/.../Joules
To backtrack from joules to calories, follow from definition of joules, to definition of "work" en.wikipedia.org/.../Work_(physics)
Then one can backtrack o calorie: en.wikipedia.org/.../Calorie
Hoever, I highly doubt anyone here had a really burning desire to get that far into physics 101.
No. A calorie is a unit of energy. End of story. It has nothing to do with weight or distance.
Yes, I know, however it is the commonly used colloquial meaning of calorie burning that we are talking about here, rather a strict phyisics definition.
If we wanted to be strict about physics then we need to start talking about joules rather then burning calories anyway.
Here's some information on that, for people that may not know: en.wikipedia.org/.../Joules
To backtrack from joules to calories, follow from definition of joules, to definition of "work" en.wikipedia.org/.../Work_(physics)
Then one can backtrack o calorie: en.wikipedia.org/.../Calorie
Hoever, I highly doubt anyone here had a really burning desire to get that far into physics 101.
