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Old 03-06-2007, 04:33 PM
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I personally think the target heart rate zone is what to aim for, keeping your heart around 130-140 for the duration of your cardio. Reason being, if you start doing higher intensity cardio, I think you start to burn off the muscle and that's not what you want, you want to target the fat.
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