You're looking at your full length mirror and you eyes just can't help but focus on the bulge in your middle.
It doesn't matter that the rest of you looks great, your eyes stay on your waist.
You'd look fantastic if it wasn't for that roll of loose belly fat that you simply can not find a way to get rid of.
You've tried dieting.
As much as it hurt you tried crunches and sit-ups and leg lifts.
You almost bought one of those exercise balls you saw in an infomercial featuring the absolutely flat bellied model who was demonstrating it.
But nothing worked.
Do you want to know why? Getting rid of fat in general and belly fat specifically will not happen if our muscles don't burn it off.
Dieting, taking in fewer calories than we use, will lose weight but not fat.
Our bodies store fat to protect us from starvation.
Remember when Man first appeared on the scene he had to chase after his food and also worry about not becoming food himself.
To carry Man through the lean times, the body allowed him to store "food" in the form of fat.
The body also decided that the best place to do this on a man was around the middle.
This still allowed for him to run and climb in pursuit of food.
For a woman, the body decided it could pack the fat not only on the waist but also the hips and thighs.
Now if these are the best storage sites, then guess where the body pulls fat from when we do exercise? It pulls fat from places other than the "best" storage site like the chest and butt.
So while you were burning fat with your crunches, the fat was coming from someplace other than your belly.
Spot training will not get rid of belly fat.
So how can you lose that fat and how can you do it quickly? Here's a simple rule on fat burning: Muscles burn fat.
Large muscle groups burn more fat than smaller muscle groups.
If all of our muscle groups are exercised they will burn more fat than just a single large muscle group.
So the answer to quickly burning belly fat is a whole body exercise program that will engage all of our muscles.
Actually it's more than that.
Walking for example, engages a large number of muscles but it is not intense enough to get the muscles to burn more than just a little of the fat that is already in the bloodstream.
The body is not going to tap into stored fat to support this activity.
So does this mean you have to kill yourself with nonstop intensive exercise? Well yes and no.
Interval training is an aerobic technique that combines sprinting with walking and jogging.
Basically its 2 minutes of walking/jogging followed by 1 minute of sprinting followed by 2 minutes walking/jogging and so on.
What this does is tell the body you need more energy (because of the sprinting) and the body will release a hormone that will kick your metabolism rate up and keep it up burning fat long after you've quit exercising.
The same technique holds true with resistance training.
Light weight training followed by push ups or bench presses back to light training.
The idea is to show the body an immediate need for more fuel by giving it brief spurts of intense workout.
Couple these exercises with a nutrition plan that maximizes the burn and you have the fastest way to lose belly fat.
It doesn't matter that the rest of you looks great, your eyes stay on your waist.
You'd look fantastic if it wasn't for that roll of loose belly fat that you simply can not find a way to get rid of.
You've tried dieting.
As much as it hurt you tried crunches and sit-ups and leg lifts.
You almost bought one of those exercise balls you saw in an infomercial featuring the absolutely flat bellied model who was demonstrating it.
But nothing worked.
Do you want to know why? Getting rid of fat in general and belly fat specifically will not happen if our muscles don't burn it off.
Dieting, taking in fewer calories than we use, will lose weight but not fat.
Our bodies store fat to protect us from starvation.
Remember when Man first appeared on the scene he had to chase after his food and also worry about not becoming food himself.
To carry Man through the lean times, the body allowed him to store "food" in the form of fat.
The body also decided that the best place to do this on a man was around the middle.
This still allowed for him to run and climb in pursuit of food.
For a woman, the body decided it could pack the fat not only on the waist but also the hips and thighs.
Now if these are the best storage sites, then guess where the body pulls fat from when we do exercise? It pulls fat from places other than the "best" storage site like the chest and butt.
So while you were burning fat with your crunches, the fat was coming from someplace other than your belly.
Spot training will not get rid of belly fat.
So how can you lose that fat and how can you do it quickly? Here's a simple rule on fat burning: Muscles burn fat.
Large muscle groups burn more fat than smaller muscle groups.
If all of our muscle groups are exercised they will burn more fat than just a single large muscle group.
So the answer to quickly burning belly fat is a whole body exercise program that will engage all of our muscles.
Actually it's more than that.
Walking for example, engages a large number of muscles but it is not intense enough to get the muscles to burn more than just a little of the fat that is already in the bloodstream.
The body is not going to tap into stored fat to support this activity.
So does this mean you have to kill yourself with nonstop intensive exercise? Well yes and no.
Interval training is an aerobic technique that combines sprinting with walking and jogging.
Basically its 2 minutes of walking/jogging followed by 1 minute of sprinting followed by 2 minutes walking/jogging and so on.
What this does is tell the body you need more energy (because of the sprinting) and the body will release a hormone that will kick your metabolism rate up and keep it up burning fat long after you've quit exercising.
The same technique holds true with resistance training.
Light weight training followed by push ups or bench presses back to light training.
The idea is to show the body an immediate need for more fuel by giving it brief spurts of intense workout.
Couple these exercises with a nutrition plan that maximizes the burn and you have the fastest way to lose belly fat.
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