Does Cardio Exercise Burn Fat?
Everyone pretty much agrees that cardio exercise does burn fat but the question keeps arising as to which type of cardio exercise is the best fat burner. Fat is burned during both high intensity and low intensity exercises. But which is the best form of cardio exercise to help you in burning off excess body fat? Glycogen is made primarily by the liver and muscles and forms an energy reserve to be used for short bursts energy. When it was first discovered your body burns glycogen during high intensity exercise it was assumed by many that no, or little, fat was burned. The further assumption was that your body burn a lot of fat during low intensity cardio exercise. Like so many theories, this does not hold up. If your body actually burned a lot of fat just doing low intensity routines, such as walking, there would not be so many over weight people walking around. But the researchers were not in error when they said that you burn more body fat during low intensity cardio exercises like wa
