Spot reducing bellyfat: How to do it...

Spot reducing belly fat or other trouble areas on your body is a very hot debate in the weight loss community.

The general consensus is that spot targeting belly fat on your body isn’t possible, regardless of how many situps or crunches you do.

However, recent studies are saying it may actually be possible to spot reduce areas where you might be depositing excess fat.

Spot Reducing Belly Fat: The Research
Current research is now finding that when you work a specific muscle, the intramuscular fat and the fat in that general area is where the body derives fuel for that exercise.

In other words, if you work your abdomen – you’re working those muscles in the area – the body turns to your belly fat for the most help in long-term fuel for that exercise.

There’s certainly more research to do, but based upon recent findings, here’s a simple exercise approach that you can use to zero in and lose belly fat fast:

Step 1 – Choose Your Belly Fat Exercises

Start by choosing about three to five different resistance training exercises for your abdomen.

It might be crunches, it might be sit ups, it might be hanging knee raises or hanging leg raises.

It can be any assortment of exercises that you have for your abdomen that you want to perform and find works your abs well.

Step 2 – Choose Your Cardio Exercises

Next, choose a low intensity cardio exercise that you enjoy.

It may be jogging on a treadmill or outdoors, bicycling, swimming, rowing machine, jumping rope.

Again, anything you enjoy that would be considered low-intensity “fat-burning” cardio.

Step 3 – Work Fat Burning Cardio And Abs Exercises Together

Now it’s 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 can’t 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

Spot Reducing Belly Fat: Final Steps

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.

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.