Recently the founder of built with science, Jeremy Ethier, conducted an experiment to determine if different forms of exercise burn more or less calories. As it is often debated whether this is true or not due to a lot of urban myths floating around the fitness community and some content creators spreading inaccurate information.
When attempting to lose body fat, it’s important to remember to how to do it effectively and safely in order to assure results. Your genetic composition will also affect how easily you either put on weight and how easily you can drop it.
It becomes very apparent from their research that the intensity of the exercise and the duration are critical in the end results. Allowing a high heart rate to be maintained for a short duration can be very effectively but not as much as a lower heart rate spread across a longer duration: like working out on the Stairmaster or doing laps of a swimming pool.
When discussing the difference between fat burn and fat loss, a Dr Eric Helms, was quoted saying that “the amount of fat loss achieved depends upon net calories surplus or deficit”. Now its keys to notes that the Doctor mentions diet into the equation and how it plays a vital part in exercise’s calorie surplus is usually installed in those individuals trying to bulk and build more muscles mass therefore requiring a higher daily calorie intake. Then a calorie deficit is usually when you lower the number of calories you absorb to allow fat burn. People sometimes tend to try and include zero or low-calorie snacks within their diet to maintain their appetite but not increasing their calories.
An exercise they tested during this was jogging, they did this for around twenty minutes resulting in about 350 calories burnt. These conditions were also repeated but whilst he was fasting, this would affect the end results especially in terms of the end calories intake for the day.
Swimming has been known to be a very reliable form of exercise for those choosing to burn fat and tone up. Swimming is a good form of aerobic exercise as it doesn’t cause a lot of damage to the joints like running and jogging do. Many gyms and leisure centers offer classes in the water to interest those who want to do other stuff besides just laps of the pool.
Sprinting defiantly is the shortest form of exercises that creates quick calorie burn, with during the experiment Ethier burnt 17.8 calories per minute when he was sprinting. This is to be expected when pushing the body to find a quick source of fuel, this does come from carbohydrates as they are a slow releasing form of energy depending on the complexity of the food.
Overall, it has been established that doing an exercise for longer period of time like doing the Stairmaster or swimming ensure a consistent amount of calories burnt; this is mostly due to them not increasing the heart rate to dangerous level and ensuring minimal damage to the joint around the body. Ethier in his final statement, made sure to preach about how the balance of diet, exercise and being aware of your metabolism, are a combination that will deliver the planned results.
