TIME TO WIN!

On the podcast this week we talk about everything from our favorite thanksgiving foods, to our word of the week WIN to myth busting: the fat burning zone. 

The whole concept behind the fat burning zone on cardio machines is that you will burn fat if you maintain 55-65 percent of your maximum heart rate. Meaning, a lower intensity cardio workout (where you don’t have to work as hard) will magically allow you to burn more fat.
 Too good to be true? Here are some facts about fat burning so you can see for yourself:
• You’ll burn calories during your fat burning workout, but not after. One of the biggest benefits of a high-intensity workout is that hours after you have left Krave, you’re still burning fat.

Known as an ‘afterburn effect’, high-intensity cardio sessions like Krave causes a metabolic disturbance—meaning, you continue to burn calories and fat while you’re sitting at your desk, or off running errands. Workouts out at a lower intensity doesn’t allow you to do this.

• Not all workouts are created equal. Imagine that two people are running on the treadmill, side by side. One of them is sticking to a lower intensity, ‘fat burning zone’ workout, while the other one is doing a high-intensity run (keeping her heart rate at 80-90 percent.)

Working out a lower intensity, 30-minute fat burning workout will allow you to burn 200 calories, with 120 of those calories coming from fat. But, when you work out for 30 minutes at a high-intensity level, you can burn 400 calories with 140 of those calories come from fat. 
If you’re serious about losing weight, and getting into the best shape of your life, don’t believe the fat burning zone hype. Instead, make your workouts count with shorter (but more effective) high-intensity workouts like Krave instead. You’ll see the difference within weeks!