How to get rid of stomach fat with exercise
Recently, I was asked this question by one of my members, “What is the best exercise to lose my belly?”
In my professional experience, there is NO way to target fat loss to a specific area of your body. Basically it’s like this, your body holds/stores fat where it wants to. Your body is genetically predisposed as to where it holds fat. You’ll notice some people may carry stored fat in their thighs, butt area and some in around their belly.
Bottom line: In order to lose your belly, you MUST have a very well balanced eating plan and exercise on a CONSISTENT basis – PERIOD! I can say with confidence, once your body becomes lean, that six pack will start peaking through as the layer of fat disappears.
After I answered this question to one of the members. He then asked me, “since you state that a person cannot target particular fat loss in a certain area of the body, meaning if I only wanted to lose weight in my belly I can’t just make that happen, is there then any exercises that can help me then shed this belly fat?”
As I stated, you cannot just target fat loss in one area of your body. As explained your body is genetically predisposed as to where it wants to hold onto fat. HOWEVER – Lifting weights does promote fat loss. By having good form while lifting weights, it increases the use of the abdominal area. I call the entire abdominal area your “core.”
Weight training increases fat metabolism. Weight training helps prevent weight gain and a better body composition. Lifting weights is a HUGE fat burner. When you train the larger muscles the fat burning is much more effective. When I train my clients, we do an entire circuit. We start with the chest and then we switch off to big muslce, then little muslce. For instance: Chest presses, squats, bicep curls, walking lunges, tricep dips, dead lifts and so on and so forth. My client’s heart rate goes up, they are sweating pretty good; since there is no rest in between each move. This workout is effective and promotes fat burning. All the while, I have them keep their core tight as they execute each movement so they are in fact, utilizing the abdominal muslces while they are working the other muscles in their body.
I have a current client that I train Monday, Wednesday and Friday. She does a complete circuit three times through and we switch from big muscle to little muscle with no rest. I do not have her doing ANY crunches throughout the circuit. But, we make sure the core is stabilized with each move. When I first took her before picture, from the side view you could literally count the rolls in her abdominal region. After 16 weeks and close to 50 pounds of weight loss, I took a mid-point picture and we compared it to her “before” picture. When I reviewed the second picture, side shot, you CANNOT count ANY rolls abdominal rolls. So it is a very good example that weight lifting does promote fat loss and is a fat burner and by stabilizing your core when lifting weights you are using that area and you are promoting more fat burning.
A lot of people do not realize when lifting weights they should stabilize their core area. I know many people including my clients that do not do any crunches and stabilize their core area when lifting and their abs look fantastic!
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