What is my ideal heart rate zone for a weightloss workout??

I am 30 .The posters at the gym anything between 150 -170 is the aerobic zone should i just within this????????????+

What is my ideal heart rate zone for a weightloss workout??

You need to figure out your maximum heart rate which is 220-30=190 and you want to stay within 60-70 percent to stay aerobic and burn fat., so you your target is around 125 BPM. This is where you want to be to burn the most fat, 85% of your calories come from fat when you are in this zone. When you move up to 70-80% you burn less fat and more carbs and protein.

To do it correctly you need to find your real max heart rate, talk to one of the personal trainers at the gym about doing this. Each person閳ユ獨 max heart rate is different and the 220 閳?your age is just an approximation.

The thing to remember though is no matter what you are doing you are still burning calories! You definitely don閳ユ獩 want to be anaerobic very often!

What is my ideal heart rate zone for a weightloss workout??

Just stay within that zone

I just found this site if that helps

:http://www.fitnessmagazine.com/fitness/m...

What is my ideal heart rate zone for a weightloss workout??

Yes and no. It%26#039;s kind of complicated. During aerobic exercise, your body burns only glycogen, which ends up getting stored as fat if you don%26#039;t burn it off. So aerobic exercise is a good way to keep thin, right? Here%26#039;s the problem: Once you%26#039;ve burned off the glycogen, your body starts burning muscle. It only takes 30-40 minutes of aerobic exercise for most people to completely burn out their glycogen stores. So if you%26#039;re working out in that 150-170 beat per minute zone, you need to cut it off at 40 minutes tops. Now, if you want to do exercise that burns fat and glycogen, the best exercise is -- ready for this? -- WALKING. You can walk as much as you want and you don%26#039;t have to worry about burning muscle unless you%26#039;re walking so much that you miss meals. Walking is better because you get more oxygen into your system when you%26#039;re not working so hard, and your body needs oxygen to burn fat. While it%26#039;s true that you burn more calories doing aerobic exercise, you%26#039;ll eventually reach a point where aerobic exercise is counterproductive, and that doesn%26#039;t happen when you walk. Does this help?

What is my ideal heart rate zone for a weightloss workout??

aerobic is considered 85% of your max heart rate. Fat burning is considered 65% of your max...

For your age, i believe the fat burning amount is 122 which is 218 - 30 (your age) times 65%.

If your workout is 40 minutes long or less, you%26#039;ll burn more calories and hence more fat at the aerobic rate...

The fat burning rate is better if you plan to workout more than an hour....

What is my ideal heart rate zone for a weightloss workout??

Aerobic and weight loss zones are actually a myth.

The harder you work the more calories you will burn but, if you work too hard (above your aerobic threshold) you will not be able to sustain it for any length of time.

You should work for at least 30 mins of continuous activity at a %26#039;good%26#039; heart rate where when you talk you have to pause for breath mid sentence. This is a good indicator.

Try to avoid eating directly before or after a workout. You want the body to use stored energy and not readily available energy for a workout.

Also, try to add weights to your workout. Toned muscle will increase your metabolism and so you%26#039;ll burn calories at a faster rate. Don%26#039;t worry about building muscle as its a very difficult thing to do.

The gym you%26#039;re in should have good instructors who can set a program for you. Ask if the are a member of REPS, the register for exercise professionals. If they don%26#039;t know what you mean, leave and find a new gym.

Hope this helps - good luck!

What is my ideal heart rate zone for a weightloss workout??

Heart Rate Zone Training

Fitness Zone

The Fitness Zone, which is 60-70% of your max HR. 85% of your calories burned in this zone are fats, 5% are proteins and 10% are carbohydrates. Studies have shown that in this zone you can condition your fat mobilization (getting fat out of your cells) while conditioning your fat transportation (getting fat to muscles). Thus, in this zone, you are training your fat cells to increase the rate of fat release and training your muscles to burn fat. Therefore, the benefits of this zone are not only the same as the healthy heart zone training at 50-60% but you are now slightly increasing the total number of calories burned and provide a little more cardiorespiratory benefits. You burn more total calories at this zone simply because it is more intense.

Aerobic Zone

The next zone, the Aerobic Zone, requires that you train at 70-80% of your max HR.

This is the preferred zone if you are training for an endurance event. In this zone, your functional capacity will greatly improve and you can expect to increase the number and size of blood vessels, increase vital capacity and respiratory rate and achieve increases in pulmonary ventilation, as well as increases in arterial venous oxygen. Moreover, stroke volume (amount of blood pumped per heart beat) will increase, and your resting heart rate will decrease. What does all this mean? It means that your cardiovascular and respiratory system will improve and you will increase the size and strength of your heart. In this zone, 50% of calories burned are from carbohydrates, 50% are from fat and less than 1% is from protein. And, because there is an increase in intensity, there is also an increase in the total number of calories burned.

Anaerobic Zone

The next training zone is called the Threshold or Anaerobic zone, which is 80-90% of your max HR. Benefits include an improved VO2 maximum (the highest amount of oxygen one can consume during exercise) and thus an improved cardiorespiratory system, and a higher lactate tolerance ability which means your endurance will improve and you%26#039;ll be able to fight fatigue better. Since the intensity is high, more calories will be burned than within the other three zones. Although more calories are burned in this zone, 85% of the calories burned are from carbohydrates, 15% from fat and less than 1% are from protein.

Red-line Zone

The last training zone is called the Redline Zone, which is 90-100% of your max HR. Remember, training at 100% is your maximum heart rate (maximum HR), your heart rate will not get any higher. This zone burns the highest total number of calories and the lowest percentage of fat calories. Ninety percent of the calories burned here are carbohydrates, only 10% are fats and again less than one percent is protein. This zone is so intense that very few people can actually stay in this zone for the minimum 20 minutes, or even five minutes (you should only train in this zone if you are in very good shape and have been cleared by a physician to do so). Usually, people use this zone for interval training. For example, one might do three minutes in the Aerobic Zone and then one minute in this Redline Zone and then back to the Aerobic Zone.

What is my ideal heart rate zone for a weightloss workout??

I%26#039;d do what the posters say. Wish I was 30 again though.