6 ways for cyclists to burn fat fast

For cyclists, mastering the use of body fat as a fuel is something of a busman’s holiday. That’s because one of the key routes to increasing the muscle’s capacity to store fat (in the form of triglycerides) and use it for energy is to ride, and keep on riding.

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“Training on your bike in a variety of formats and fine-tuning your nutrition can make you more efficient at using fat as fuel at high intensity to preserve glycogen stores,” explains Nigel Mitchell, Head of Nutrition with Cannondale Pro Cycling.
However, to do that properly, he says, you first need to have a clear understanding of some of the concepts involved. To lose weight, you have to create a ‘negative energy balance’ in your body – in other words, expend more calories than you consume. The idea of enhancing fat burning (to ‘burn fat fast’) simply means to increase the proportion of your expended calories that will come from stored body fat.

1. Fasting burns fat fastest
2. Go zonal
3. Train long
4. Get intense
5. Raise your resting metabolic rate
6. Make fat-burning muscle
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