Wednesday, 16 September 2009
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2 Vital Secrets to Losing Your Belly Fat the Right Way
If you are like 70% of America you more than likely want to know how to shed that extra belly fat. With all the information out there about what you should and shouldn’t do to get rid of extra belly fat, between the weight loss miracle diets, gadgets, and super-pills that supposedly are the cure all for all your weight loss problems. The sad truth remains that very few people are successful by using the majority of this information. However, there is a proven way to flatten the stomach - and the best thing is, you can begin seeing great results in just a couple of weeks!
You see, most people believe that if you want to reduce belly fat, you need to do all those ab exercises. Please do not be one of these people, because these exercises simply don’t work. If you are doing them, you can stop at this very moment. Allow me to explain; in order to stimulate fat-loss from around your belly, you need to stop wasting so much of your time doing all kinds of these various abdominal exercises and hundreds of reps of crunches, leg lifts, and torso twists in the hopes of “spot-reducing” your belly and love handles. Spot-reduction simply doesn’t work.
If you’ve read any reputable fitness publications over the last 10 years, you probably know that spot-reduction DOES NOT occur. It’s a myth that just won’t seem to go away. The truth is,
losing belly fat does NOT occur by doing exercises that target the stomach area. Regrettably, this false information that has been so widely accepted is still being spread as truth. And the result is millions of people spending WAY too much of their training time trying to target the stomach with tons of these abs exercises.1.) First, they focus on your ab muscles; but is your goal to tone ab muscles? No, your goal is to REDUCE THE FAT layer around your abdominal area. Then, and only then, can you see those six pack abs. Ab exercises are great and they do help to strengthen your core and help you maintain a healthy back. But the fact is that direct ab exercises should only be a small portion of your workout routines. The bulk of your time should be spent focusing on big multi-joint exercises that work the largest muscle groups of the body such as the legs, chest, and back.
Focusing on these multi-joint exercises for the largest portions of your body will greatly increase your metabolic rate both during your workout, and for the next 24-48 hours after your workout. In addition, this technique also stimulates an increase in fat-burning hormones within your body. You simply won’t achieve this type of metabolic and hormonal response by wasting most of your time with “ab-pumping” exercises.
For best results, you have to focus on short and intense workouts, and do them at least 4-5 times per week. Do short exercises, and do them as fast as possible. Repeat them 4-5 times so you get a total workout of 2-3 minutes. If you do that for a week, you will not only notice your stomach got flatter, but you will have great chances of losing some weight also!
2.) The second important principle to rid yourself of that extra belly fat revolves around your nutrition. What you need to realize first, is that “diets” only work against your body in your effort to lose the stomach fat. You see, if you follow any of these fad diets like extremely low-carb, or low-fat, or the grapefruit diet, the soup diet, or anything else that restricts 1 or more of the macro-nutrients such as your protein, carbs, and fat, will actually cause you to lose lean muscle and lower your metabolic rate most of the time. This only makes you fatter in the long run, when you start to eat normal again!
So the bottom line is it’s important to stop falling for the fad diet gimmicks, and understand that as humans, we are meant to eat a balanced diet full of a diverse array of foods from healthy natural sources of carbohydrates, proteins, AND fats. This gives your body all of the macro-nutrients as well as all of the vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and enzymes that your body needs to run like a well-oiled fat-burning machine!
Take action now to rid yourself of that unwanted extra belly fat for good.
Post contributed by http://slimandtrimlifestyle.com
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Good post!
i like this post.
great post. this could really benefit a lot of people.
what about this then? http://www.healthkicker.com/704753119/how-i-stay-skinny--toned/
great post :)
Oh this is such an awesome post. I always want to have a nice abs to fit in those skinny jeans and minis!
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First of all, to uncover your abs you need to get rid of belly fat that covers
them. From this, you see that the goal should be fat loss.
But if I lose fat, I lose
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Good post. There are too many false ideas around loosin weight, and more aboutloosing weight on a precise area... I was sure that making abs will help me to have a flatter sotmach, in fact I have nice abs... but a not a flat stomach ! lol
100% agree!
There is onely 1 proper way to do it!
I've found that a lot of cardio is the key... oh yeah, and avoiding fried greasy foods.
Don't try to lose more than 2 lbs a week. If you lose more than 2 lbs you are most likely losing muscle as well as fat. If it's less than 2 lbs in a week, you're in the clear!
I applaud this entry, very well said.
I discovered over the years that the #1 way lose belly fat (and bodyfat in general) is to increase your Basal Metabolic Rate. It's such a simple concept that people can't seem to grasp sadly -- that your fat gain or loss is a direct result of the difference between calories taken in and calories expended. By increasing your BMR to be constantly high, bodyfat just drops like a rock if you maintain or decrease your calories taken in.
A WORD OF CAUTION:
One of the main reasons why people gain weight when they work out is because they think that because they worked out, they have a free license to eat whatever they want in increased proportions -- often times that offsets and negates the benefit they got from exercising. Also, a lot of people work out for 15 minutes every few days and expect that to have a dramatic effect. This is not the case. Exercise must be maintained regularly in order to maintain a high BMR. Exercise up to about 1 hour increases Testosterone levels, which effects fat loss as well -- but going beyond an hour at a time increases Estrogen and Cortisol levels, which have negative, opposite effects.
REGARDING TRANSVERSALS AND A TIGHT BELLY
I also just wrote a post over on my Healthkicker Blog about exercising Transversals.
The gist of it is that yes, spot fat reduction does not work -- but also that people work out the wrong way for abs most of the time. Working the Rectus Abdominus does nothing but give you a pretty 8-pack. In order to get a tight, firm belly, you need to work the Transversals. The muscle fibers of the Rectus Abdominus simply run the wrong way and contract the wrong way. People often wonder why they can have a 8-pack of abs, but their bellies are still loose. This is why.
The Transversals, however, run from front-to-back, and form the body's natural corset by pulling the gut inwards. If you notice your "core" tightening during power lifts, this are the Transversals activating. When the Transversals are firm and fit, you naturally have a tight gut; and this not only looks good but is a necessity in the conduction of power through your body during athletic movements.
I wish the article was a little more specific on how to properly execute these exercises. I really need these.
woohoo. well said.
:)
I have lost several pounds just eating in even incrimates. i'm eating more than I did before but the evenness stimulates your metablosm.
This is really good advice - it's nice to see someone so well informed :)
Take note people! :D
I try to explain this to others sometimes.
Often weight loss and health advice is aimed at those who have normal systems with no underlying condition. Visceral or belly fat is a common symptom of metabolic syndrome, which is also often a precursor to type 2 diabetes if not managed properly. Regular exercise is proven to ameliorate the condition and there is a window period after exercise during which the glucose intolerance is considerably lessened. For those who have metabolic syndrome the big dietry danger is carbohydrates, especially refined or High Glycemic load (i.e. they convert rapidly to glucose and overload the system). It is thus vital and effective in tackling belly fat and health) to understand how your metabolism works as a 'normal' balanced diet may well be the culprit in putting that fat there. A proper blood lipid profile and knowledgable metabolic physician is the only real way to go. There has even been research that shows that merely looking at a piece of cake can put on weight as a result of the psycho-metabolic effects of expectation! Reducing the visceral fat and exercise are the two most important acts for one's health, if other indicators are in place.