Treadmill

[gee]

Hi guys, Im working on seeing 6pack, and this is cardio training:

4-5 days per week, 1 time a day, I run for 15 minutes, high speed, and burn around 120 calories, is this enough? because after 15 minutes it becomes really difficult.

[sameey70]

If limited time is the issue and you can maintain that intensity, then fine. You do run an increased risk of injury with very high intensity exercise. If time is not an issue, I recommend decreasing the intensity and run/jog for a longer period of time, you may actually end up burning more calories that way because you'll be able to exercise longer.

[swanso5]

what's your wts and diet program...they will yeild more results for your 6 pack than cardio

[gee]

i eat breakfast ( oatmeal or cereal), a snack every ~3 hours, lunch for me is at 5. lots of proteins and some carbs, , dinner usually consists of a salad..

[swanso5]

wts???

and you need protein for every meal and make snacks meals

[Sportsman4920]

Hi guys, Im working on seeing 6pack, and this is cardio training:

4-5 days per week, 1 time a day, I run for 15 minutes, high speed, and burn around 120 calories, is this enough? because after 15 minutes it becomes really difficult.

If you're trying to burn fat, you may need to go longer than 15 minutes. One usually burns mostly carbs in the first 20 minutes or so of jogging/running. Therefore, if you only go for 15 minutes, than most of what you are burning is carbs. This is fine, but if your goal is to simply lose fat, than you may want to think about increases your cardio to 25-30 minutes, or walk instead of jog. You won't burn as many calories in a 15 minutes period, but you'll burn more fat.
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[sameey70]

The body is constantly burning fat, even within the first 20 minutes of cardio. This is another exercise myth that fat burning begins after 20 minutes. The proportion of calories burned as fat is more with lower intensity, longer duration cardio and more carbohydrate (glycogen) is burned with higher intensity exercise. It doesn't matter if more calories from fat or glycogen is burned. The overall calorie deficit is what is important.

[swanso5]

and if he's doing it hard enough he may also get some epoc too

[mm]

The body is constantly burning fat, even within the first 20 minutes of cardio. This is another exercise myth that fat burning begins after 20 minutes. The proportion of calories burned as fat is more with lower intensity, longer duration cardio and more carbohydrate (glycogen) is burned with higher intensity exercise. It doesn't matter if more calories from fat or glycogen is burned. The overall calorie deficit is what is important.

Why is it not important that fat is burmed rather than glycogen? Is that because extra calories, i.e glycogen, turns into fat?

[Anoby]

at least burn 150....