Sunday, November 4, 2007

I couldn't agree more

I often get asked, What's the best way to burn fat and lose my belly? Do aerobics work better than interval training? Does resistance training help at all? What should I eat to lose stomach fat? All of those are common questions. But here's the truth. Cardio is not the best way to burn fat. In fact, I've met very few people who have successfully used cardio to lose stomach fat. And most of those people were young men, and anything works for them when they want to burn fat. If you want to lose stomach fat fast, you need to increase the intensity of your workout by using both resistance training and interval training to lose stomach fat.

Let's take a look at the perfect workout plan to get you maximum fat burning results in minimum workout time. Here are the keys.

First, start with a circuit of bodyweightexercises to prepare your body for a fat burning workout. This should only take 5 minutes. Follow that up with supersets of resistance training using multi-muscle exercises for maximum metabolism boosting. This works so much for post-exercise calorie burning than slow cardioworkouts. That will lead to more belly fat burning as well. After 15 minutes of resistance training, finish with 15-20 minutesof interval training. Use a warmup, then do a few intervals, and then cool-down. You don't need a lot of intervals to get great fatburning results.With that workout schedule, you'll be in and out of the gym in 45minutes, three times per week.Compare that to what most people do, which is run, jog, cycle or use the cardio machines for 45 minutes straight. Sure, that will burn calories, but it doesn't build a better body.



The best way to lose stomach fat is to use the following three exercise methods.



1) Bodyweight circuit training to warm-up the body

2) Resistance training supersets to boost the metabolism

3) Interval training to burn belly fatPut those three, short exercise methods together into one greatbelly fat burning workout if you want to lose stomach fat



My training revolves around this theory as told by Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS, Turbulence Training. Who wants to spend hours on cardio? Not me. Come see me at Snap Fitness and get started today! See you soon :-)

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