Lose Belly Fat Fast

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 at 4:03 pm

Discover How To Lose Belly Fat Fast

Are you fighting to lose belly fat? I if you thought that you’ve tried every way possible to lose your belly fat, but it just never seems to move, then you need to read on. I’m sure you have seen a host of commercials and advertisments that appear almost every day, making all kinds of miracle claims that you can lose belly fat fast, overnight almost, with magic pills or mystical supplements.

Then there are those bogus infomercials, you know the ones, with gadgets that claim you can reduce your belly fat in a matter of days just by putting on some useless “ab-belt” around your middle, or burn away the stomach fat by using their patented “ab-roller-rocker”.

I hope you’ve seen through these marketing tactics and the claims of these fraudulent marketers and the way out gimmicks and scams that they are pushing by trying to get you to believe that a belly-fat reduction miracle is really possible.

Once you’re you’ve seen past all the scams and gimmicks and get right down to reality, behind what techniques and strategies really do assist you to lose your stubborn belly fat and keep it off for good.

Let’s look at a couple of principles….

1) First we’ll discuss how you structure your workouts. For you to stimulate fat-loss from your stomach, you need to stop spending so much of your time doing all the various kinds of abdominal exercises and hundreds of reps or crunches, leg lifts, and torso twists in the hopes of “spot-reducing” your belly and love handles.

If you’ve taken the time to read any reputable fitness publications over the last ten years or so you’ll find that spot-reduction DOES NOT occur. It’s a myth that just won’t seem to go away. The truth is, you don’t lose belly fat by doing exercises that target the stomach area. Unfortunately, even though most people by now do understand this (or at least they should), they still spend WAY too much of their training time trying to target the stomach with too many abs exercises.

Now don’t get me wrong, a certain number of abdominals exercises are one way to maintain your back and strengthen your core. But the fact is that direct abs exercises should only be a minimal part of your workout routines. The majority of your time should be spent focusing on multi-joint exercises that work the largest muscle groups of the body like the legs, chest, and back.

Now that is one of the REAL secrets for getting rid of that stubborn belly fat for good. Focusing on big multi-joint exercises for the largest portions of your body greatly increases your metabolic rate both during the workout, and for the next day or two after the workout. It also stimulates an increase in the fat-burning hormones inside your body. You just don’t get this type of metabolic and hormonal response by spending a large proportion of your time with “abs-pumping” exercises.

Want to lose belly fat fast … Well, get your backside under a barbell and do some squats, do some deadlifts, some lunges, step-ups, some back and chest work. It doesn’t matter if it’s barbells, dumbbells, or even bodyweight exercises…your focus needs to be on big multi-joint exercises done at a high intensity.

That means no five-minute rest periods between sets while you spend the rest of the time chatting with half of the people at the gym. Losing your belly fat fast requires some focus and intensity in your workouts! Anybody who tells you that you can lose your belly fat while sitting on your couch watching TV with some “ab-belt” strapped to you, or doing only a couple of minutes of crunching with your “ab-rocker-roller” is not being totally honest.

2) The next important principle to rid yourself of that flabby belly revolves around your nutrition. The first thing you need to realise is that “diets” only work against your body in your effort to lose the stomach fat. You see, if you follow any of these fad diets like low-carb, or low-fat, or the grapefruit diet, the soup diet, or anything else that restricts 1 or more of the macro-nutrients (protein, carbs, and fat), most of the time you will actually lose lean muscle and lower your metabolic rate. This only makes you put more weight on in the long run, when you start to eat normally again.

I could go into all kinds of details, but essentially you are messing up processes related to your hormonal balance in your body, the muscle glycogen process, insulin, blood sugar, etc., and this stops your fat loss dead in its tracks!

It’s essential that you stop falling for all these fad diet gimmicks, and realise that as humans, we are meant to eat a balanced diet, full of a diverse array of foods from healthy natural sources of carbohydrates, proteins, AND fats. This gives your body all of the macro-nutrients as well as all of the vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and enzymes that your body needs to run as a well-oiled fat-burning machine!

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