best way to lose belly fat

[danni]

I'm all ears. Someone please tell me how to get rid of my belly!!!!!! I do the treadmill every morning and it won't go away

[owen]

Certainly you are off to a good start with your cardio, but without the proper meal plan you are probably just wasting your time. What's your typical food and exercise routine?

[GI Jane]

I don't think it is fair to say Danni is wasting her time because cardio is important for heart health. But what I think Owen is getting at is just doing cardiovascular training without a plan means you probably won't reach your goal of losing your belly. The more information you can provide, the more helpful the community can be.

[WheelyFamous]

I agree.... without proper meal planning cardio alone will not allow your belly to disappear. Cardio is in fact essential and absolutely necessary to anyones health routine. The question Owen asked is very important-What is a typical meal for you and what is the general exercise routine?

[sheena]

Your abdominal muscle is like the rest of the muscles in your body. They require training if you want them to be larger and stronger. A common mis-conception is that you must train your abs several times a week. This will only lead to overtraining. Your abs are a muscle. Train it like everything else. No need to focus and go overboard. Two to three times a week of focused ab work or core strength is generally the rule for 6 pack abs.

An Easy 3-Step System For Ripped Abdominals:

Step 1

Training: 1% of your overall ab development will actually come from training. Consider the fact that most people think 90% of your results come from training, you can see this isn't the popular consensus. Needless to say, that's where most focus their efforts. They don't get their nutrition in order, they don't use cardio effectively so the masses just do more ab training and more crunches. Ultimately for your abs to show you must have abs to show and a low percentage of body fat for them to appear. More training does nothing to eliminate the layer of fat that is covering them. This is commonly know as spot reduction. Training an area for the sole purpose of eliminating fat in that area.

Tip - Do not make training the #1 priority to show off those abs. Train them like any other muscle. More ab work will not make your abs appear. Focus on lowering your body fat levels and not spot reduction.

Step 2:

Cardio: 9% of your effort can be directed as using cardio as a fat burning tool. High intensity interval training is by far the fastest and most efficient method you can use to shed the pounds. You'll want to keep in mind, using cardio is a tool. Not a foundation. This simply means that doing marathon sessions will not be to your advantage. Learn to use cardio effectively and you can enhance and boost your metabolism beyond what even eating the right foods can do. Some competitive bodybuilders use cardio up to twice a day for 30 days to just chisel off that last remaining layer of fat that's cover up the abdominal region.

Tip - Cardio can be done twice a day for a full body shock! Just keep in mind this method is a short term tool and not a routine you would use for any length of time.

Step 3:

Nutrition: 90% of your efforts will be based upon your diet. In order to show off the abs, you must get rid of the layer of fat that is covering them up. It is that simple. Many people will train their abs and do all kinds of cardio and they still forget that nutrition plays such a massive roll in getting rid of belly fat. You must know how many calories a day you need to eat and what to eat in order to get your nutrition on track and working for you. Going to the gym more often, doing more cardio and more hanging crunches will do you no good if you fail 90% of the test.

Tip - Use nutritional fundamentals to turn your body into a fat burning furnace.

Wait just a second...

Before you rush off to check your nutrition, cardio and training, take this next concept into consideration.

Loose Skin: Skin is very elastic and over time (age) or with a large amount of weight reduction it may not just spring back like it did. In this case, surgery may be the only option once you have reached a very low level of overall body fat.

-Many women may experience this because of pregnancy. -Many men and women may experience this because of a large amount of weight reduction.

[admin]

Sheena - good information, but we do not allow trolling for other sites. If you want to post something that's cool, but leave off the url. Trolling like this makes more work for me to delete your url posts. Will have to ban you if you keep doing that.

Also the site you are trolling for is a fly by night out of Singapore, which is where your post originated from.

[sheena]

[pef1996]

I know that I have heard the same thing. You have to adjust what you are eating as well as exercise to see any difference anywhere. I have had four kids so I have that horrible loose skin in my ab area. My husband and I both agree that I must lose whatever weight I'm going to lose and it's possible that I will have to have a tummy tuck one day to get rid of it all.

I say to keep working the cardio, walk, lift weights and watch your diet. HTH!

[Vlada]

[pef1996]

[Patti]

Cardio is great, but you also need some weight training and to reduce processed foods as much as you can.

[Tigger]

If you're doing weight training, how much weight and what exercises should a beginner start with?

[Dee1]

Walking uphill will remove that for you with the help of a low carb diet, in a couple of weeks you won't know yourself.

[danjutsu]

Focused Ab workouts are great for pulling in the flab coupled with all over workout for fat-burn reduction.

[danjutsu]