Welcome to the Get Fit Guys quick and dirty tips to slim down and shape up.

My name is Ben Greenfield.

I'm the Get Fit Guy.

And today's episode is going to show you exactly how to train your body to burn more fat.

And now let's jump into today's episode, which asks the age-old question, can you actually

train, trick, or tip your body into some kind of enhanced fat burning mode, sucking fat

cells off your butt, thighs, and tummy more rapidly. Well, this topic came to the forefront

of my attention recently when I noted a study that just

came out entitled Rethinking the Role of Fat Oxidation, Substrate Utilization During High

Intensity Interval Training in well-trained and recreationally trained runners.

Now, I know that's a mouthful, but the study itself wasn't too difficult to grasp.

The goal of the researchers was to look into the degree to which the rate of fat oxidation could

be altered by training. In other words, can your exercise choice or exercise history affect

the rate at which you burn fat? Now, before we look into what the

researchers discovered, allow me to make an important clarification. The title of this episode

that you're listening into is not which diet causes you to burn more fat. Why? Because we already

know the answer, and I've given the nitty-gritty details for that in my two-part article series called How to Turn Yourself into a Fat Burning Machine.

Now, I'll link to that article in the show notes over at quick and dirty tips.com for this episode, episode number 254.

But in it, I report on a University of Connecticut study that

conclusively proved a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet can increase fat oxidation from an average

maximum of 1.0 grams per minute to over 1.7 grams per minute. But let's say that you're already not eating too many

calories. You're also being careful with your carbohydrate intake and you're not engaging in a diet

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