Fat Burn mode and heart rate?

[Anonymous]

On an elliptical machine, when you type in your weight and age and whatnot, you get a target heart rate for the duration of your workout. Are you meant to keep it around that number, or should you exceed that number for best results?

[Bobba_Fett]

Your target heart rate for fat burn is going to be a lot less then a cardio work out.
Example: Mine is a THR of 120bpm this is the optimum fat burning heart rate, if I go much over it, I'll start a cardio workout that is focused more on increasing heart health, then burning fat calories.

Additionally if you're as big as me what you eat is of higher priority then any of this heart rate business. Cause it doesn't even matter if your pounding a case a beer a night, and eating a bucket of fried chicken for breakfast.

You want to lose weight, 80% of your focus should be on nutrition.

[Anonymous]

"you get a target heart rate for the duration of your workout." > "Are you meant to keep it around that number?"

Yes. Hence the target. Working too hard is just as bad as working too little.

[Asker]

Yeah I thought of it like the prime metabolic zone with eating, like how you're supposed to eat a certain way throughout the day to keep your metabolism working. Wasn't sure if it was true in this case though.

[ConsultantIsBack]

Just get your heart rate up as high as you can