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.
Huh? Strict about physics? Calories and Joules are both units of energy.... Joules is the more commonly used unit of measurement, but anyone with a calculator could flip back and forth between the two... same as you could flip back and forth between yards and meters. There is no "backtracking". Do you mean converting units?
One calorie = 4.184 Joules
There's no need to throw out a bunch of Wikipedia links.
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.
Huh? Strict about physics? Calories and Joules are both units of energy.... Joules is the more commonly used unit of measurement, but anyone with a calculator could flip back and forth between the two... same as you could flip back and forth between yards and meters. There is no "backtracking". Do you mean converting units?
One calorie = 4.184 Joules
There's no need to throw out a bunch of Wikipedia links.
