excercises to lose belly fat

Contrary to popular belief, belly fat reduction exercises do not necessarily involve endless amounts of crunches or sit-ups. The reason for this belief is due to the myth of spot reduction. Between the myth and the television ads promoting ab machines, it is no wonder why people waste so much time and effort working out their abs. The real key to reducing belly fat is by burning more fat efficiently and effectively.

The good news is you do not have to become a cardio junkie or do hundreds of crunches to burn fat. The best type of fat burning exercise involves lifting weights and performing some interval training. One pound of muscle burns more calories than one pound of fat. Therefore, the more lean muscle you develop, the more calories your body will burn throughout the day even at rest.

Not only that, but as you build more muscle, your body will take the energy it needs from the fat stores in your body. Thus burning more fat. You will want to balance out your muscle building with interval training. For example, rather than run or walk for an hour on a treadmill, you could walk at a brisk pace for 3 minutes and run as fast as you can for 30 seconds, repeating the process up to 4 times or more.

The reason interval training is important is because too much cardio can begin burning muscle rather than fat. Interval training helps to prevent this from happening, allowing you to keep the muscle you have. Finding good workouts that combine both strength training and interval training can save you time and still give you a great full body workout. Most workouts last no longer than 45 minutes and will leave you feeling great but exhausted.

Your eating habits will play a more important role in your belly fat reduction than exercise. It has been said that our diets account for 80% of our weight loss. Keep in mind that before changing up your diet or exercise routine, you should consult with your physician to discuss your options.

We all have a six-pack, it’s just that some are hidden by a layer of fat. This layer of fat needs to be removed in order for abs to begin showing. Once you have learned how to reduce belly fat effectively, you can then begin doing crunches or sit-ups to define your abs.

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I’m 13, 90 Lbs, 4′9, and looking to lose my belly fat. (Pictures included) No pills, Gyms, or Eating disorders?

Okay. Well. I want to lose my fat before september 9th. I don’t want pills, Don’t want to go to a gym, And don’t want any eating disorders. I need someone to help me find a good way to eat, Like what I should eat and should NOT eat.
Look at my pictures, 90 Lbs doesn’t sound like a lot but it shows up because I’m short.
Thankss.
Oh and what can i do to lose the tummy? Like what excercises and how much of it?
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Okay. Thats the pictures.
Copy paste it into your bar at the top.
I want to lose everything that hangs over my pants and have a flat, hot stomach that i want to show off in my bikini.
Sorry I was in my swim suit!!
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Here’s a plan I wrote up for weight loss and doing it healthfully.
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If you follow this plan then you will be able to jumpstart it your metabolism and lose fat weight.

Do cardio for 30 – 45 minutes AT LEAST once a day (two times at most).

You should be eating from 1100-1300 calories per day (a normal person’s body burns about 2000 by ITSELF every day, so you are already burning off around 900 calories without exercise).
Burn about 400 calories through exercise. (45 minutes of stairs usually burns 300 to 400).

DO NOT MISS ANY MEALS or this will automatically send your body into starvation mode because you are already consuming less.
You MUST eat every 3 hours to keep your metabolism going fast.
Though do not “graze” (eating a small amount every half an hour or so) because this will slow your metabolism.

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If you eat anything under 1100 calories PER DAY then your body will go into what is known as “starvation mode”.

*Starvation mode = When not eating enough (<1100 calories) First, your metabolism comes to almost a complete stop. Your body take the lack of food as a sign that you are starving. In an attempt to save itself, your body will store away your fat and instead it will start breaking down muscle tissue for energy. Once you begin eating more your body will keep taking the food in and storing it as fat rather than burning it for energy because it is preparing itself for the next time you "starve yourself".

This happens because up until very recently food had not been in abundance (as it is today) and so the body developed ways to keep itself alive during periods of starvation. Now we have enough food, though our bodies have not adapted to the new era.

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Breakfast (the most important because it wakes your metabolism up and gets it working fast) should be the biggest meal of the day at about 350 calories and dinner the smallest at 200 calories. Eat breakfast within an hour of getting up in the morning. Snacks should be between 150 - 200 calories and you should eat between two and three snacks per day.
Breakfast --> Snack –> Lunch –> Snack –> Dinner –> (snack)

*****I recommend doing your cardio first thing in the morning before breakfast. When we wake up in the morning our body is in a catabolic state. Catabolism means ‘the breaking down’ of body tissue, this is the optimum time to perform your fat burning exercises as your body is literally in fat burning mode. In addition to this, because you haven’t eaten any food before the exercise your body will break down mostly fat in order to fuel your exercise session rather than food in your system. The idea is to leave our body no choice but to burn mostly fat.

A good breakfast is a 300 calorie (give or take) protein shake.
I personally recommend getting “muscle milk protein power”.

Next you NEED to drink at least 64 oz of water a day. The more the merrier.

Lastly, wake up by at most 8 AM and workout about 1/2 hour BEFORE you eat. This will speed up your metabolism for the upcoming day.
Don’t eat for the 3 hours before you go to bed.

Over view:

Wake up 8 AM.
Eat every 3 hours.
No skipped meals.
Breakfast = Within an hour of getting up, biggest meal of the day, and before exercise in morning. (Protein shake is GOOD for breakfast!)
Exercise for 45 minutes in the morning BEFORE eating. [If you want you can exercise again between you 2nd snack and dinner for 45 minutes.]
Eat 1100 – 1300 calories per day.
Breakfast –> Snack –> Lunch –> Snack –> Dinner –> (snack)
Don’t eat 3 hours before going to bed.
Drink 64 oz of water.

You can lose from 2.5 to 3 pounds HEALTHFULLY in a week.
If you lose anymore then you will not have lost that weight in fat and you will be damaging your body.

Good luck!
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