Sam’s Fitness Tips : How To Lose Belly Fat

They say you can’t spot reduce fat.

This is a long proven fact. Many websites, books and magazines insist that their method will show you how to lose belly fat, but your personal fat storage is predetermined by your genetics. So, don’t think that your mid-section can be flat and toned whilst the rest of you is still chubby!

Right now I can hear you asking a question “but I thought you were going to tell me how to lose belly fat?” Well, I am. However it’s important to know up front that you can’t achieve a six-pack whilst leaving man-boobs; you can’t get that flat stomach if you still have massive love handles. The good news is though, that you wouldn’t want to anyway! Having a slim stomach whilst the rest of you is still carrying fat would look even worse than being fat all over. Don’t believe me? Try imagining a perfect 6-pack on a man with man-boobs, fat thighs, love handles and a double chin. Weird huh?

So, how DO you get a nice, toned, slim stomach? Read on and I’ll tell you exactly how to lose belly fat. It’s simple really, and involves two components – diet and exercise.

Diet

I’ve heard it said many a time (in the gym, in magazines, on the web) that ‘Abs are made in the kitchen, not in the gym’. It’s even one of my favorite lines when discussing diet and exercise. To a large extent, this saying is very much correct. Although exercise is an essential part of losing fat, ab exercises will not help you one bit unless your body fat is already below 10 – 12% and you want to add definition, size and tone to your abs. As a matter of fact, at higher body fat percentages, ab exercises make your belly stick out even more due to creating bigger muscles under the flab! So, always keep in mind, the most important aspect to control in your endeavor to lose belly fat is your diet

Exercise

In my opinion, effective exercise for fat-loss is broken down into three important steps : sustained, low intensity cardiovasuclar exercise; High intensity interval training (or HIIT for short) and maybe the most important of all – resistance training. People with low levels of fitness usually start off with low intensity cardio (e.g walking or slow jogging) This is a great way to lose some excess fat and to get fitter. High intensity interval training (or HIIT for short), which consists of alternating between high and low intensity exercise (running and walking, for example) is a much more effective method of losing fat, however a good level of fitness should be achieved before starting such a program. Perhaps the best method of all for fat loss is resistance training (e.g lifting weights). This not only helps reduce fat during the training session, but your body can continue to burn calories for a while later due to it’s need to repair muscle damage

So there it is, a simple guide to transforming that unsightly stomach. Good luck!

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