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There's nothing that proves intense training burns more calories, either, really. The main reason intensity is advised is because it lets you train your cardio system better and pack more action into the same amount of time as compared to if you were doing it less intense.
Yeah, obviously doing a 45 minute walk isn't as intense as a 60 minute jog, but provided you cover the same distance, the efficiency gap in terms of calories burned between walking and jogging becomes extremely narrow. Walking five miles might take you an hour or 1.5 hours, whereas running it may be accomplished in 30 minutes by someone who is used to it, but the calories burned remain roughly the same. Muscle training would be different, but the same principle applies...if you lift heavy but only do it for 15 minutes, someone who was lifting half the weight but did it for 30 minutes would be burning roughly the same amount of calories through actions...there will be differences in the metabolic after effects, but the DIRECT actions remain very similar in how many calories they burn.
Honestly, the fitness world is so full of myths and backwards information that you have to simply abide by one fact: Performing exercise DOES burn calories. For most of us, we don't really need to be concerned with every tiny trick that meta level athletes use and shit...the average person's goal should just be to do SOMETHING exercise related for at least an hour a day.
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