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Exercise trends come and go, and one of the ones that went in the late 1990s was the idea of exercising slowly to burn more fat. The theory was well rooted in exercise science–you burn a higher percentage of fat while exercising slowly and a higher percentage of carbohydrate as you speed up–but not very practical for most people. If you’re only going to exercise for a half-hour a day, you burn a lot more calories by going fast than slow, regardless of how many of those calories come from fat. Now Stu Mittleman, probably the foremost advocate of slow exercise, wants to reopen the argument. Slow Burn presents an entire lifestyle plan built around running slowly. He doesn’t disagree with the idea that you can lose weight faster by training faster; he just thinks it’s too stressful for the body to exercise that way. Mittleman is one of the most famous long-distance runners in the world, and by long, we’re talking really long: he once ran 57 (more…)
