"The myth of the fat burning zone"

[ny biker]

I don't know anything about this author, nor have I read the book, but this agrees with the advice my trainer has been giving me for many years.

http://velonews.competitor.com/2010/...ng-zone_134214

[Aquila]

My fat burning zone is a big hill. If I rode it a dozen times a day, I'd burn a lot of fat. /nod

[Zen]

The real fat burning zone is intervals.

[Dogmama]

Intervals will burn fat by raising metabolism. Good thing. HOWEVER, endurance rides (heart rate at ~70% to 75%) teach your body to burn fat preferentially to sugar. Burning fat takes more work because your body must go through the Krebs cycle. Unfit people tend to be sugar-burners & then they bonk/quit. I've read that people who are endurance athletes burn more fat and the fat burning rate seems to increase proportionally to the amount of endurance fitness they've attained.

[Zen]

I don't think they call it the Krebs cycle anymore.
I think it's just called the electron transport chain.

[malkin]

Krebs Cycle would be a cool name for an lbs or for a bike.

[Dogmama]

I don't think they call it the Krebs cycle anymore.
I think it's just called the electron transport chain.

Last time I re-certified, they called it Krebs.

[Owlie]

The Krebs cycle is the older name. The preferred name these days is the citric acid cycle or tricarboxylic acid cycle, as it's become fashionable to give processes and diseases descriptive names rather than naming it after its discoverer. The electron transport chain is what the Krebs/TCA cycle products feed into--and where you get most of the energy.



Malkin: I'm now going to buy a bike, paint all the intermediates on it, and call it the Krebs Cycle.