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From Tori, Age 15

my friend is a personal trainer and what we all need to do to lose weight is just forget about all these fad diets, extreme exercise plans and differnt tapes that promise weight loss or muscle gain...the only thing that will help us lose body fat is exercising in our target heart rate zone for AT LEAST 20 minutes for AT LEAST 3 days a week. To find your targer heart rate zone (the place where you burn fat for enegery) take 220, subtract your age, and thent ake 70% of that. For example, for a 15 year old the maximum heart rate would be 204 and my fat burning zone would be a heart rate of about 143. If you go over this by 10 beats, or under this by any amount, you will not burn fat. Its that simple, figure out your fat burning zone and make sure you stay in it for at least 20 minutes. Alot of us warm up for 5 mintues, exercise for another 15 and then cool down for 5 or so and say i did 30 minutes of exercise, but how much really were you really working out in your fat burning zone? So if you can buy a heart rate monitor that you can wear around your wrist or take your heart rate every 5 miuntes on ur brachiral aridory....i hope this helped! this is what we need to do to lose fat