Fitness Zone
By Chad Tackett
The next zone is the Fitness Zone, which is 60-70% of your
max HR. Once again, 85% of your calories burned in this zone are fats,
5% are proteins and 10% are carbohydrates. Studies have shown that in
this zone you can condition your fat mobilization (getting fat out of
your cells) while conditioning your fat transportation (getting fat
to muscles). Thus, in this zone, you are training your fat cells to
increase the rate of fat release and training your muscles to burn fat.
Therefore, the benefits of this zone are not only the same as the healthy
heart zone training at 50-60% but you are now slightly increasing the
total number of calories burned and provide a little more cardiorespiratory
benefits. You burn more total calories at this zone simply because it
is more intense.
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