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Metabolic Efficiency Training: Is it the secret to burning fat as a fuel source more efficiently

Run to the Top Podcast | The Ultimate Guide to Running

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How to Improve Metabolic Efficiency Through Diet

The crossover concept is the relationship of fat and carbohydrate burning or oxidation, depends on how you want to say it. At a certain point of intensity, exercise intensity, your body will burn more carbohydrate than fat. What they defined in research was that point happens between 63 and 65% of max intensity. So if you were to train exercise, run at less than 65% of your max heart rate, you would actually improve that 25% of the equation to burning more fat.

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