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This morning a Fitmate was commenting how she was tempted to hit the snooze button as the alarm went off at 5.30am however the temptation was resisted.

It’s so easy to break a habit, missing one session of exercise becomes 1, then 2 and before you know it, it’s all to hard and not much activity in the exercise front becomes the norm:((

“I am a little sleepy and cannot jog this morning stop eating!”

Laura has started her training for her first fun run and has discovered how the body can yearn for more food once the energy expenditure levels increase.

Having plenty of fresh food, apples, bananas, kiwi fruit, infact any fruit that is in season will help supress the hunger.
Also drinking plenty of water apart from naturally flushing your intestinal tract will give you a full feeling in the stomach. The body cannot differentiate between food and liquids.

So looking at fat burning, what works the best?

I was ask by a new client is it better to run on a treadmill for 60 minutes at a medium intensity or shorter bursts of high intensity.

Well a combination of both is great but for burning fat keeping a higher intensity definitely works.

Keeping a lower intensity burns a highrer percentage of fat however the total energy expenditure is low when compared to shorter bursts of higher intensity, you are burning a smaller percentage of a larger amount of energy.

So when looking at fat burning activities and what works, keep to high intensity exercise.