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Many people believe that you can reduce stomach fat by exercising the stomach only. In other words, they think you can spot reduce. Wrong, you can't spot reduce, there is no such thing, therefore, when you lose weight it will be overall body fat which includes the stomach. In fact, you can lose more stomach fat by weight training your legs. I know it sounds crazy to lose weight in your stomach by working legs, but it's true. This is because the leg muscles are the largest and hardest muscles in the body to work, so you burn more calories
working them.
Another great way to increase muscle and reduce stomach fat is with interval training. This way you do a combination of moderate and intense training combined. All you do is spurts of intense exercise and taper off a bit then do this throughout the entire routine. For example, if you walk ten minutes then jog for five and do this back and forth for 30 minutes you are interval training. In order to crank up intensity after a few weeks you reverse the order, so that you walk for five and run for ten
Of course, none of this will take off one pound if you do not cut calories. To start cut 500 a day until you're at 1200-1500 no less than 1200. In addition, be sure to drink plenty of water it fills you up and has no calories. Safe weight loss is two pounds a week and it should be easy if you exercise and eat 1200-1500 calories a day. Additionally, it's best to choose an exercise you enjoy so you won't quit. The bottom line is to move more and eat less.
When you reduce stomach fat it makes you look thinner all over and this is because you are thinner all over. Whether you know it or not if you lose stomach fat it means you have lost overall body fat. There is no other way to lose it.
There are three kinds of fats in the foods we eat: saturated, polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fatty acids. Most foods contain all three types of fat, but in varying amounts. Only saturated fatty acids and dietary cholesterol raise blood cholesterol.