Are you looking for specific exercises to lose belly fat? Truth is, belly fat does not burn off from only doing sit-ups, crunches or any other type of spot reducing exercises aimed at burning belly fat. Those are all great for shrinking the belly area by tightening muscle but they will not actually take the fat off from around your belly. For that, you have to do a little more. The most effective exercises to lose belly fat are those workouts that cause all over fat burning.

Cardiovascular Exercises to Lose Belly Fat

To burn fat off your body you have to burn more calories than you take in. Long, brisk walks, jogging, stepping, jumping rope, aerobics classes and spinning are all great fat burners. The best way to shrink your belly fast is to incorporate a combination of cardiovascular exercise and toning either in one workout or two separate workouts. If you are not sure where to begin, there are programs online as well as offline that can teach you ways to lose fat and tone up your abdominal muscles.

For Optimal Belly Shrinking, Add Some Toning

While crunches and sit ups do not burn belly fat if done in exclusivity, they do help tone your muscles and because of this, they can significantly reduce inches around your waist and belly. Exercises to lose belly fat should include ab exercises as they can make a big difference in the way your belly looks. Not only will your belly be smaller because of losing fat from cardiovascular exercise and dietary changes, but it can be firmer, too.

If you are having “issues” with a chubby belly, the best way to fix the problem is with a good weight loss program. There are no miracle fixes that will make your belly disappear but there are programs that work! All exercises that burn calories are exercises to lose belly fat and one of the best things you can do for yourself is to get up and get moving!

 

As a body transformation coach, one of the number one areas that people want to ‘lose’ is the stomach. The problem is, though, that most of those people are trying to get rid of their belly fat by doing an endless amount of crunches and abdominal exercises.

Unfortunately that doesn’t work. Another way people are trying to lose their belly fat is by doing a long, steady state aerobic cardio. This is what the fitness industry has taught since the Arnold days and especially in the 80’s and 90’s. Long cardio, however, hasn’t really proven to be totally efficient at bringing everybody shredded six-packs.

Over the last few years the tide has been shifting to a training protocol called High Intensity Interval Training or HIIT. HIIT is performing a short burst of high intense activity at about 80-90% of your maximum effort (100% is as hard as you can possibly go) and then ‘resting’ for a longer period of time at about 30% of your maximum effort.

Keep in mind that your 100% intensity might not be what mine is, for example. Mine is a full out sprint. Yours might be a fasted pace walk.

Another thing you need to know about how to perform interval training properly is taking into consideration the length of the ‘work’ interval. If the ‘work’ interval is 30 seconds long then your 80% intensity should be able to handle the 30 seconds, but you should not be able too much longer than that.

Steve Boucher, a fitness professional in Australia, came out with some interesting findings in a research study he performed about HIIT.

During a 15 week study he had women perform either HIIT or steady state cardio for 45 minutes 3 times a week. The HIIT group performed a 5 minute warm-up, did 8 seconds of bike sprints at 90% intensity with 12 seconds of ‘rest’ at 30% intensity for 20 minutes, and then finished with a 5 minute cool-down.

At first the HIIT group only did 5 minutes of HIIT and built up to 20 minutes by the sixth session (2 weeks).

Here’s what he found:

• The HIIT group lost 3 times MORE fat then the steady cardio group

• The HIIT group worked out HALF as much then the steady state cardio group

• The HIIT groups aerobic fitness actually increased MORE than the steady state cardio group (26% and 19% respectively)

• The HIIT group lost a SIGNIFICANT amount of fat off of their stomach

If you are currently performing long, steady state cardio you could be holding yourself back from maximum fat loss. And if you’re trying to shed that ugly belly fat from your body then interval training is the way to go.

Here’s what I do with my clients.

If you are a beginner you should shorten up the length of your high intensity intervals. Generally, most of my beginning clients do 15-20 second intervals at 80-90% of their max with 90-120 seconds ‘rest’ at 30% of their max intensity. Typically 5-6 intervals are sufficient to begin with.

Remember to always do a 5 minute warm-up and a 5 minute cool-down.

As you progress all you have to do is make the intervals longer. Perform anywhere from 30-60 second hard intervals with 30-120 ‘rest’ intervals. Perform anywhere from 6-8 intervals and you’ll be shedding belly fat in no time.

The modeling industry is ruthless and non-forgiving. One who was the star today can be buried in weeks if they do not watch their weight. A pound of extra fat usually sends a model into panic mode.

Ofcourse it’s even harsher for beginner models who have not made a name for themselves yet.

We often hear of acute cases of anorexia among the modeling world that sometimes escalates to death or manic depression.

The natural body as we know it can only take so much. It asks what it needs and has to get it an in its required measure.

Working on the borderline is not only risky but also needs you know exactly what are the markings of your boundaries. Any extremities and you will find your self in a hospital being intravenously fed.

Many models result to supplements and body toning drugs. This is not advisable since life doesn’t start and end being a model.

Maybe now it might seem so, but once you are done, the effects of weight loss drugs set it. And I guaranteed you wont like that.

Allow me to introduce one of the time tested natural ways to burn your body fat, convert it into lean muscle and define your body’s curves and bends better.

This method of changing fat into lean muscle was developed and tested by Tom Venuto. Tom has been in the fitness industry for 25 years and has a Bsc. in Exercise Science, is affiliated to a dozen professional fitness associations and is a certified personal instructor with several institutions.

He developed his natural fat conversion method and tested it on himself over time.

The results; he won 2nd place in Mr. Natural America and North America among many other accolades and titles. What you will be getting from Tom is his own developed and tested method of loosing excess fat and becoming lean and well toned.