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60 minutes slow burn. If you don't have 60 minutes try intervals.

If you workout as soon as you wake up in the morning then you will burn more fat than anyother time of the day. If you workout after you have eaten that day, then the first 20 minutes of your workout is spent burning carbs, the rest of the time you are burning fat. If you don't eat first, but start your workout as soon as you get out of bed, then you will have burned up all your carbs during your night of sleep and fasting. So, all of the exercise you do at this time is strictly fat burning. Be sure to eat about 20 minutes after you are finished and drink water the whole time. Elliptical is no better or worse than any other cardio...it's whatever you ike and will stick with.

Fat is burned by all activities. Vigorous activities burn sugar as well.

The idea that you need to work particularly hard to burn fat effectively IS A MYTH (exercise industry propaganda).

The longer you work, the more fat you will burn.

The more gently you work, the less sugar you will burn.

(fat and sugar are burned by different types of muscle fibres; the powerful fibres ONLY burn sugar, and the gentle ones ONLY burn fat)

Working harder to burn more calories is a 'false economy', because burning sugar makes you tired and hungry. You can burn off more energy during the day, by being active all the time, than you can by flogging yourself to a standstill and having to rest (and eat).

Fatburning does not make you tired or hungry. If you are working gently enough to burn ONLY fat, you can keep going indefinitely without 'fatigue'.

People who should be qualified enough to know better, will often claim that intense exercise increases your metabolism, so that you continue burning extra calories while you 'recover' from the workout. This is true, but unfortunately most of the metabolic processes inviolved in 'recovery' are also powered by SUGAR, not fat.

All this sugar burning, during and after the workout, interferes with the reactions that can burn fat, as well as the process of releasing it from storage.

If you use the elliptical machine as long and as often as you can, it will help you to burn fat as a fuel, AND stimulate the release of more fat from 'adipose' storage in your body.

It is a good substitute for sitting down, for example while watching TV.

30-60mins........

3x a week...........