If you want to burn fat, exercises you choose need to be targeting that specific goal.
It means you will focus on certain forms of workout much more than others.
The best exercises to burn fat are the kind of things that are about endurance - they are things like running and cycling that work the heart and help you burn off calories, and with it - fat.
It's widely thought the best way to burn fat is to do these sort of exercises with varying intensity.
You can alternate jogging with brief bursts of sprinting for example, or set an exercise bike to different levels of resistance.
You might say, keep it at the normal level for 15 minutes, then spend 5 minutes on an "uphill" setting, before returning to normal.
These changes and fluctuations all prove beneficial.
The important thing is to get the heart rate to a level where it has to start to work.
Where that level is will depend a lot on your individual fitness, diet and to some extent, genetics.
The gym buzz word for this kind of exercise is a "cardio workout routine" as these are known as cardiovascular exercises.
Whatever happens, you have to accept that as you get older, your metabolic rate, the rate at which you burn calories, slows down.
So you have to account for that when you for your best exercises to burn fat.
One other way to make sure your cardio workout routine is the most effective is to warm up beforehand.
It takes the body a while to get into shape.
If you are working out with weights - as you will have to do to some extent to keep your body in good condition while burning fat - do that first.