Lose Stomach Fat

 From Flab to Firm . . . Fast!

Are you ready for a no-nonsense, quick results approach to lose stomach fat that you desperately want to get rid of?

You are absolutely right to want to get rid of it. That extra belly fat can increase your risk for diabetes, heart disease, and some types of cancer. If you have been trying hard but are still having trouble losing that stomach fat, your answer most likely lies in the kind of exercise you are doing. If you are relying on the old-school regime of sit-ups or crunches, your frustration is only going to get worse. Change your workout now and you can have the tight and toned abs you desire before you shop for those new clothes.

First on the list of your no-nonsense plan is to forget only doing sit-ups and ab crunches. These exercises do not provide the resistance you need to rip those ab muscles into shape. A solid strength training workout involving the resistance of bands, a weighted ball, or weights is the perfect type of exercise to turn those soft abdominal muscles into a rock hard six-pack. But don’t stop there! That is a good start, but if you only do the strength training, you still won’t have the results you are looking for.

In order to better understand why strength training alone doesn’t work, you will need to view the problem in a different way. When your goal is a tight, sculpted waist, you actually have two completely separate areas to work on your abdominal muscles and your layer of belly fat. If you separate the two in your mind, it will help you to see why the strength training alone doesn’t do the job. It does build your muscles, but strength training does absolutely nothing to burn the layer of fat that is covering your muscles. Is the picture looking clearer now? You basically have a nice, little blanket of fat that is hiding your muscles from view.

According to The American College of Sports Medicine, the best way to shed that blanket of fat is by eating properly and through aerobic or cardio exercise that incorporates the basics of interval training. Sounds complicated, but interval training is really quite simple.

Interval training power packs your cardio workout by increasing the fat burning levels that your body normally experiences during a cardio session. Extra good news is that incorporating an interval workout into your cardio program won’t take any extra time. In fact, if your cardio normally takes 40 minutes to complete, you can even cut the workout down to 30 minutes and still enjoy superior results!

Interval training can be added to any form of cardio. The formula is easy. Incorporate short bursts of high intensity training to your regular level of cardio, and that’s it! Here’s an example. Let’s say you are riding a stationary bike and you usually do your entire workout at level 5 speed. Count that as your ‘standard pace.’ Start out with 8 minutes of cycling at your standard pace of level 5. Now add the short burst by cycling at level 8-10 (whatever you can handle) for perhaps 1 or 2 minutes. Once you experience the ‘burn’ switch back to level 5 for a resting or recovery stage of 8 more minutes. Keep going back and forth at these ‘intervals’ until your workout is complete. It’s not only easy, but will make the cardio less monotonous as well!

Now you have both training keys to your no-nonsense, six pack ab program! Start today and your perfectly sculpted waist can be one of the best presents you ever received!