Exercise helps you lose weight when combined with a healthy, calorie-controlled diet.
Before discussing fat-burning activities, it's useful to define "fat burning." Most individuals want to shed fat, not weight.
Fat-burning workouts help you decrease body fat by burning lean mass—muscle, bone, organs, etc.
Fat stores energy. When you consume more calories than you burn, you gain one pound of body fat per 3,500 calories.
Fat-burning workouts This can get tricky. All activity burns calories, but low-intensity exercise burns more fat cells.
Walking burns more fat than running, but running burns more calories overall, thus running burns more fat.