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.
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.
I suspect lots of us have a burning desire to use our Physics 101 knowledge(see almost any thread involving swimming propulsion.) Calorie is useful in this context as it is the unit of energy traditionally ascribed to burning fuel,such as food and the bodily storing of energy(burning 1 gm carbs or protien gives 4 Calories,1 gm fat 9 Calories.It is generally said that you have to burn 3500 Calories to lose a pound.)
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.
I suspect lots of us have a burning desire to use our Physics 101 knowledge(see almost any thread involving swimming propulsion.) Calorie is useful in this context as it is the unit of energy traditionally ascribed to burning fuel,such as food and the bodily storing of energy(burning 1 gm carbs or protien gives 4 Calories,1 gm fat 9 Calories.It is generally said that you have to burn 3500 Calories to lose a pound.)
