There's a hot debate going on in the world of weight loss; spot reducing trouble spots on the body such as belly fat. Most people believe that spot targeting belly fat just isn't possible, no matter how many sit-ups or crunches you do. However, researchers are now saying that it just might be possible to spot reduce areas of the body that have excess fat.
The Research Behind Getting Rid Of Belly Fat Fast
Researchers have found that if a specific muscle is worked, both the fat in the area of that muscle as well as the intramuscular fat, provide fuel for the body during the workout. This means if you're working your abdomen and the muscles in the area, your body will turn to belly fat for long-term energy for the exercise. Additional research is necessary, but based on these recent findings, we've come up with a simple approach that you can use when exercising to target and lose belly fat quickly.
Step 1 - Decide On Abs Exercises That Target Belly Fat
To begin, select 3-5 different resistance exercises for your abdominal area. These exercises could be sit-ups, hanging leg raises, hanging knee raises, or crunches just to name a few. This can be any assortment of exercises that are meant to target the abdomen.
Step 2 - Choose Your Cardio Exercises
Select any type of low intensity cardio exercise that you find enjoyable. Some suitable exercises would be jumping rope, rowing machine, swimming, bicycling, or jogging just to name a few. Anything that gets your heart pumping and you enjoy doing will work.
Step 3 - Work Fat Burning Cardio And Abs Exercises Together
Now its time to pair your belly fat exercise choices together. Begin with a short five to ten minute warm up of light activity. Then, stop your cardio and do a set of one of your abdominal exercises to the point where you cant do any more repetitions. My recommendation is to start off with your hardest exercises first. So whatever one is kind of the hardest for you to perform and reach muscular failure at, that's the one you want to start with.
Step 4 - Switch Between Belly Fat Exercise Techniques
Do as many repetitions of your abdominal exercise as possible. Then, as soon as you're done, get back on the cardio equipment for another five to ten minutes at a slow pace. This is the intensity level that works best at directly burning body fat for fuel. You can even switch up the cardio exercise to add more variety
Final Step - Spot Reducing Belly Fat
As soon as you're done with those five to ten minutes of low intensity cardio, then you go on to your second abdominal exercise. So if you started off with leg raises, maybe now you do hanging knee raises. Do as many as you can and then you go on to your next low intensity cardio exercise. Just keep switching back and forth like this for three to four different exercises for your abdomen mixed in with your low intensity cardio.
There is still no definitive proof that this method of spot reducing will help you lose belly fat fast, but based on recent studies, mobilizing body fat in a targeted area may help reduce or eliminate excess fat. In this case we're targeting belly fat, but it may potentially work in other problem areas as well. Again, I'm not saying there's any definitive proof in this technique that it will spot reduce belly fat, but based upon the recent research that's been done it should help you mobilize body fat in the area that you're targeting, in this case belly fat and then following up each exercise with low intensity cardio exercise may help you lose belly fat fast.
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