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It can. I cobbled together excerpts from a couple articles (below) that helped me when I was trying to lose weight, and helped me understand why weight loss isn’t necessarily the same thing as improved cycling ability.There are different schemes with different heart rate zones, and people use them more or less deliberately when they train but the following scheme is common enough: Zone 1: Very light, 50 percent to 60 percent of MHR (maximum heart rate) Zone 2: Light, 60 percent to 70 percent of MHR · Zone 3: Moderate, 70 percent to 80 percent of MHR · Zone 4: Hard, 80 to 90 percent.

To be in the zone that burns most fat per minute, you want your heart rate to be approximately 70 percent of your maximum heart rate (upper end of zone 2).