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Originally Posted by viru§™

Seriously, I think everyone is bored of hearing this crap. I really don't care if your smarter than me, makes no difference to me whatsoever. You really are over-complicating this whole thing in a bad attempted to sound smart. To lose body fat - eat less and do sprints. Alter the amount you eat and the amount you sprint accord into your results. Simple as that.

You are the blind leading the blind. Yes I've heard the arguments for sprinting before and sprinting is good. I do my morning cardio at interval. But you cannot just flat out sprint and expect to burn more calories. The amount of calories you burn is more a function of distance.

I've seen the sprint argument and it is fucing dumb. Take this one.

Low Intensity Walking For 60 Minutes At 3 mph:

Since there are approximately 100 calories used for every mile, this 60 minute session would burn approximately 300 calories. It was low intensity, so let's say 60% of those calories came from fat (and by the way, it's circulating fat, not body fat that you'll first use). 60% of 300 is 180 calories that came from fat.

High Intensity Sprinting For 20 Minutes:

Next, consider a high intensity sprinting session. Since I used the treadmill in the first example, I'll use the running for this (but it's much easier to do these outside vs. a treadmill). If you are able to do sprints for 20 minutes, you may burn 600 calories (again, just an estimate).

Now his numbers are a little off. You have to subtract resting calories etc so this guy is using the old 100Cal assumption which isn't quite right but I digress. What he is saying is that you will have walked 3 miles and sprinted 6 miles. That’s where the absurdity of sprinting alone comes into play. No one can sprint 6 fucking miles inside of 20 minutes. Sprinting is great which is why I like interval training but it cannot be maintained.

You really don’t run that far when you are sprinting. The Cal/min sprinting is great but it cannot be maintained for very long. The body gasses and you are fuckingd done. A person in elite shape can top out at a little less than 30mph. Do the fucking math has anyone ever run a 2 minute fucking mile? Why the hell do you think that is?

The funny thin is one of the studies the quote above referenced was on interval training.