Fat Metabolism Summary

Edward F. Coyle’s article, Fat Metabolism During Exercise: New Concept, focuses on answering the question to “what limits the rate at which people can convert their body fat into energy during exercise. He focuses on the different components of fats, such as the adipose tissue, blood plasma, and the oxidization of fats. He highlights how within the adipose tissue there an estimated 50,000 to 60,000 kcal energy stored as triglyceride and an obese individual will have more energy than compared to an individual with less body fat. Additionally, he explains how energy storage must be mobilized into plasma FFA before being transported to the muscle mitochondria for oxidation during exercise. He illustrates how fatty acids from the adipose tissue travel to the blood plasma until they reach the muscle for oxidization. Although Coyle highlights how the fat travels to oxidized as well as how
Coyle’s article, Fat Metabolism During Exercise: New Concept, brings insight to how fat metabolism changes in response to exercise. He focuses on how the fat metabolism works within our bodies by discussing how energy is stored from fat and how fat travels to become energy. He pinpoints how levels of exercise intensity impact oxidization and mobilization of fats. All this information about fat metabolism during exercise correlates from information in the textbook and what we will learn in class as well as how it relates to my physical activity and impacts one’s life. Although Coyle presents in-depth knowledge about fat metabolism during exercise, it is important to know a decrease in fat oxidization is not as important in exercises compared to carbohydrate intake, and untrained individuals are more prone to increase mobilization of fat than having oxidization of fat at a fast state of exercise. Nonetheless, fat metabolism during exercise changes in response to a level of exercise intensity and does impact one’s ability to perform but not at the excess than carbohydrates