Belly Fat Exercise
All of us are born with, and die with, a great set of abdominal muscles, but you can have the most perfectly shaped abdominal muscles in the world, no one is going to see them if they are covered in a layer of belly fat. And, I think we can all agree upon one thing – irrespective of age or gender - that every one of us would like to have visibly great abs.
When it comes to belly fat, and spot fat reduction in general - no amount of quality diet will realize your desire without a decent exercise program. This should I hope, at least stir a keen desire in you to get into exercise to lose belly fat. Once again - the challenge is to follow through… Let this be your motivation: If you make up your mind - you will most certainly go from belly fat to belly flat.
Many men and women try using belly fat programs that use ab crunches as an exercise to reduce belly fat. However, ab crunches are not that helpful at all, according to recent studies. The best way still, is to create for yourself a full body workout program, and adding to that exercises targeted to your abdominal region.
By adding targeted resistance training exercises to your daily routine you can assist the muscles in those areas to support and tone your body. And by doing abdominal exercises you can firm and tighten your abdominal muscles where they will assist in better posture. This alone can help to flatten your stomach and give the appearance of weight loss through the better posture you will achieve.
How To Exercise To Lose Belly Fat:
The absolute best exercise to lose belly fat will involve more than one form of workout. You can try Resistance Training to help create a lean and toned body, Aerobic Exercises to elevate your heart rate over a sustainable period of time, and Stretching to extend your limbs and muscles to their full extent, and Interval Training - the form of exercise which is most effective in working the body, burning calories, and blowtorching body fat.
The best ab exercises are not the classic crunch or situp. You can find much more effective fat burning movements than this.
The classic ab crunch is generally a waste of time because it is a small movement that burns few calories and provides very little stress to the ab muscles. Plus, it can be tough on the lumbar spine.
There are other better, unique ab exercises that men and women can do to flatten their lower abs. And if you want to lose belly fat, forget about doing long, slow boring cardio for fat loss.
You’ll get more results in less time in your fat burning workouts by using interval training for fat loss rather than ab exercises.
In this video, you’ll see my 3 favourite ab exercises. None of them involve getting on the ground and performing the traditional “crunch” style of abdominal workout. These exercises can be done in a circuit for an excellent abdominal workout while minimizing the stress on the lower back.
The first exercise is the ab wheel. Beginning in an upright position contract your abs roll the wheel out and then return to the upright position. Doing 8 reps of this exercise is tough. Go slow on the way out. Get a stretch and contract your muscles hard on the way back in.
In the circuit you can immediately go to the stability ball jackknife. Beginning with your feet on the ball and elbows on the bench, have your body parallel to the ground. Contracting your abs tuck in and out, there are many different variations to this exercise. It can be performed with one leg or with a rotation by bringing your knees up to one side. It can be performed with your hands on the floor rather than the bench, and to add difficulty you can add in a push up to the move.
The final exercise is a mountain climber with a cross body rotation. Beginning in the push up position a traditional mountain climber we bring the knees straight up, but in this variation bring your knees across your body to your opposite arm for increased difficulty. This is a great circuit of ab exercises to burn fat and get ripped abs.
Men’s Health expert and creator of the incredible Turbulence Training for Fat Loss Interval Training System, Craig Ballantyne, has done it again! He has just (July 21st 2008) released his new CRUNCH-FREE Home Abdominal Workout program, including The 4-Week Beginner Introduction to CRUNCH-FREE Ab Workout, The 4-Week Intermediate Level ANTI-CRUNCH Ab Workout And THREE Advanced 4-Week Home Abdominal Workouts. Also included is The Bodyweight Abs program that you can do anytime, anywhere, without a single piece of equipment. (This program comes with beginner and advanced versions too!) You have to check this out if you’re serious!
Thankfully, many trainers - such as Craig Ballantyne featured in the above video - understand that there is a great deal of value found in training the abdominal and the core muscles. The exercise programs created by Craig Ballantyne for example, centre around the abdominal region, in other words - full body workouts in which the abdomen is integrated into each exercise…
The core is the center of your body. If your arms and legs were to make an X the vertex of the X would be in the center of your abdominal region. This is the core of the body that provides a foundation for much of the strength that the human body’s appendages embody. So, it goes without saying that the core of the body is very important to work out.
The number of core exercises one can perform are more varied than most would initially assume. For example, the abdominal crunch is probably the most important of all abdominal exercises. While it is most commonly performed without any exercise equipment, it can also be performed with cables, medicine balls, and even weight plates. All of these added items will create additional resistance which can strengthen the abs to a greater degree. However, it is best to increase weight and repetitions gradually.
Take it easy at first and educate yourself! Be aware of the fact that you’ll end up making more progress in less time if you start slowly and make small improvements as time goes on.
Most people assume that all core exercises such as the crunch are done in a four backward position. However, a major abdominal exercise is the side bend. Side bends involve alternatively tilting from the right side to the left side. There are those who are constantly battling their love handles, this is the perfect exercise to date in reducing them. Closely, they create additional strength in the hip area as well as other parts of the abdomen. These exercises can be performed with or without dumbbells - the dumbbells, of course, provide additional resistance which increases metabolism and aids in the enhancement of developing strength.
There is one thing that needs to be kept in mind when it comes to abdominal exercises. While many exercises should not be performed excessively, the abs can be worked everyday as they require less rest to react positively to an exercise. Again, that this does not mean you kill yourself by performing hours of exercises seven days a week. Instead, it would be better to work out twenty minutes to a half hour a day, three of four days a week. This should be an adequate amount of time for the average person to gain a value from an abdominal and core workout.
Educating yourself about exercise and working out is critically important. You would do well to get the help of a personal trainer, at least for a while, in order to learn how to perform the exercises properly. Also, there are some great guides available on the internet, you might want to get yourself one of these.
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