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.
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?
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I think you're forgetting about another major factor involved, time. Along with the force involved in going faster, it takes over a minute less time. To ride a mile at 20 mph would only take 3 min, but to ride the same mile at 10 mph would take 6 min.
The Garmin uses HR, location/distance (by satellite along with data from the Internet), weight of the individual, as well as time to assess calories burned (cycling cadence is also a possible factor, possibly others). There are specific forums located at forums.garmin.com, which address this issue in far more detail.
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?
.
I think you're forgetting about another major factor involved, time. Along with the force involved in going faster, it takes over a minute less time. To ride a mile at 20 mph would only take 3 min, but to ride the same mile at 10 mph would take 6 min.
The Garmin uses HR, location/distance (by satellite along with data from the Internet), weight of the individual, as well as time to assess calories burned (cycling cadence is also a possible factor, possibly others). There are specific forums located at forums.garmin.com, which address this issue in far more detail.
