Easy exercises to burn belly fat

Burning belly fat can be one of the hardest parts of getting a good physique but a few simple tips can make it much easier. First and foremost you must understand that doing crunches doesn’t burn belly fat any better than doing bicep curls does. What muscle you work has nothing to do with where you burn fat from.

The best way to burn belly fat is to do whatever gets your heart pounding and you breathing harder. Fat requires oxygen to be metabolized so you should do whatever exercise you’re doing hard but not so hard you can’t breathe enough to continue. Secondly whatever exercises you do will burn fat but dieting will help even more. A good diet and a good workout plan are key for any sustainable weight loss plan. You’ll get results without dieting but they’ll be much more drastic with it.

Now on to the exercises. Like I said anything that gets your heart pounding will burn fat. The best way to burn belly fat is a three prong approach. First and foremost is the diet. Second is cardiovascular exercise. Third is weight training. Weight training is often overlooked but it does miracles for your insulin sensitivity and metabolism. Cardio and Weight training can burn up to 2x as much belly fat even though mixing the two only yields 25% increase in overall fat burned. This is to say heavy weight training and cardio exercise actually burns belly fat more effectively than cardio exercise alone. This is a key thing that many overlook when trying to lose stubborn belly fat or the last few pounds.

The best cardio exercise for most is obviously, running as it’s free to do anywhere but a better way than running is using an elliptical machine. If you have access to one of these use it. Not only is it easier on your joints, your body will actually be fooled into thinking it’s doing less work than it really is. This in turn makes a harder workout feel easier. Your body relies, in part, on the impact of running to know how hard you’re exerting yourself. Without this feedback the body can be made work harder with less discomfort.

The most overlooked step, as I said, is weight training. Weight training can do miracles for many people, especially those who have never done any heavy lifting. Weight training boosts your metabolism, increases your insulin sensitivity, and increases release of growth hormone. An increase in insulin sensitivity means that things you eat will be more likely to go into muscles, or be used in any way other than being stored as fat. An increase in growth hormone provides your body with a stimulus to lose even more fat. The best weight training exercises are ones that involve multiple muscle groups. Most people think of bench pressing which is a good workout but the best for growth hormone release and for insulin sensitivity are squats or even better yet deadlifts. Both are very easy to have poor form in though if you’ve never done them but are easy once someone shows you how to correctly. This is a good place to look for correct form for deadlifts: http://weighttraining.about.co m/od/toptenexercises/ss/deadli ft.htm

Anything that makes your heart race or involves heavy weights will help you burn fat. Mixing the three things mentioned here, diet, cardio, and weight training will be far more powerful than the sum of all three alone. They work synergisticlly to burn fat like crazy. Good luck, not that you need it now that you know this.