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.
I hadn't had the chance to look through this thread, but it prompted me to review some past running and cycling activities on Garmin connect. For every activity, when I run or cycle a mile faster, I burn fewer calories than doing a mile slower. An example from last Sunday's ride:
Mile 2, 17.1 mph, calories 56
Mile 3, 13.8 mph, calories 68
This doesn't make much physical sense to me. If work is force x distance, the distances are equal and the force is (pretty significantly) greater for the faster ride, how can the slower ride take more energy? How does Garmin assess calories burned?
Brian Sharkey, author Fitness & Health, the Human Kinetics book that is sort of a Bible of accessible exercise physiology for people like us
I appreciate for the reference, I'll give it a read.
I hadn't had the chance to look through this thread, but it prompted me to review some past running and cycling activities on Garmin connect. For every activity, when I run or cycle a mile faster, I burn fewer calories than doing a mile slower. An example from last Sunday's ride:
Mile 2, 17.1 mph, calories 56
Mile 3, 13.8 mph, calories 68
This doesn't make much physical sense to me. If work is force x distance, the distances are equal and the force is (pretty significantly) greater for the faster ride, how can the slower ride take more energy? How does Garmin assess calories burned?
Brian Sharkey, author Fitness & Health, the Human Kinetics book that is sort of a Bible of accessible exercise physiology for people like us
I appreciate for the reference, I'll give it a read.
