A ‘pot belly’… ‘love handles’…. the ’spare tire’ are all terms used to describe the belly fat or stomach fat that many of us put on. It is the area of the body that many people want to do something about. The fat accumulation is more in the stomach and related areas.
The key to getting great abs is to burn stomach fat. While sit-ups, leg raises and crunches can contribute to ab development, they do very little to burn the fat around your waist. Therefore, it is clear that ab exercises should not be your main focus. Instead, a total body workout is required. If you have been doing hundreds of crunches every day and you do not see your abs, this is because your body fat percentage is too high. To get rid of this stomach fat, you will need to eat correctly and exercise the right way to trigger your body’s metabolism.
The isometric ab squeeze helps to flatten your abs. What you do is tighten up your abs and squeeze them together. As hard as you can. Then hold for as long as you can. Release, rest a few seconds, then repeat. This also can be done while lying on your bed. I suggest you do it for 3-6 minutes a day, depending on how quickly you want to solve your belly fat problem. If you want to burn stomach fat without having to do much of anything, I can’t think of a better way to reduce stomach flab as fast and easy as with these 2 techniques.
High Intensity Interval Training is not only one of the fastest ways to burn fat, but it is also extremely fun. You can do interval training in any form you want. Be it the treadmill or the stationary bike or jogging or sprinting or whatever. Warm up for 5 minutes at the normal speed. Then you run as hard as possible for 1 minute (Pretend a lion is chasing you). You slow down for 30 seconds at a very slow speed to catch your breath. Repeat the AB cycle at least 6 times, and then do a cool down for 5 minutes.
The right combination of weight training and aerobic exercises helps to burn fat and gain muscle. The combined exercise program for belly fat burning involves the combination of weight training and aerobic exercise on alternate days of the week.
Weight training exercises can be done on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and the aerobic exercises on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday with an off day on Sunday. These exercises help to burn fat and gain muscle and the more the muscle the greater is the rate of metabolism to burning excess fat. So the building of muscles has many benefits.
