Train To Burn Fat For Fuel

You may think that fat burn all boils down to calories or how much you work out. But what if I told you it's possible to be bad at burning fat? Think of a Hybrid Car (an analogy my professor liked to use): the battery is fat for fuel, the gas is carbs. If you’re bad at burning fat, your body switches from using the battery as its primary source of fuel to gas at much lower speeds than someone who is an efficient fat burner. In practice, that means basic movement feels harder for you, sooner, than it does for someone who trains. Walking a few blocks, hiking, flights of stairs - many things you experience in the day-to-day are affected as the majority of our day (basically every minute outside of the gym) is low to moderate intensity. If you train your fat burn system, through zone 2 cardio (which we’ll explain below), you increase the bucket of activities your body finds easy. You increase the speed at which your Prius says “oh wait, now we need the gas.” The threshold at which your body says “this is getting hard” goes up, and up, and up.