For maximum
fat burning you only need to increase your
heart rate 50 to 60% and maintain for about 40 to 60 min. Achieving such HR is not very hard to do, and anything above that doesn’t allow for maximum
fat burning. My suggestion is do not take anything before
cardio or
fat burning routine. It may be a good idea to take an aspirin or two afterwards.
I do take caffeine pills about 20 min before working out, but that is to maintain
energy thru weight training.
Just to
stress again…
cardio and
fat burning are not the same thing. For maximum
fat burning,
heart rate needs to be controlled thru extended period of time. For
Cardio, take it up to 75% and maintain for 20 min only (include 5 min warm up and cool down for total of 30 min).
I hope that helps.
