Originally Posted by 53-11_alltheway
If you go to any fitness website high intensity always burns more calories (per unit time). I think you are getting this confused with Burning more fat.
Yeah steady state exercise below the lactate threshold burns more fat. The caveat here is that you can never raise your lactate acid threshold if you never train above it.
Are you sure steady state burns more total fat? I would believe a higher percentage of your calories come from fat, but since you're burning much less calories per hour, you are also burning less fat per hour. The main advantage of slower riding is that you can go more hours per day at a slower pace, so your total calorie burn per day is higher.