Lose Stomach Fat – Why Crunches And Sit-ups Don’t Work For Belly Fat

by Curtis Weber on April 8, 2010 · weight loss

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Have you been trying to lose your stomach fat? How many crunches or sit-ups or leg lifts have you sweated through? How much fat disappeared? Probably none right? Did you know why?

Spot exercises that target just the abdomens will not burn fat from your belly. They actually will tighten up your stomach and you will have lost an in. or so around your waist but they won’t get shot of that stomach fat. The abdomens simply are not an enormous enough muscle group to burn serious fat. The fat that you probably did burn potentially came off your chest or your butt but didn’t touch nature’s preferred fat storage area, the belly.

Larger muscle groups burn more fat than smaller muscle groups. If you had used all that energy that you put into those abdominal exercises into effective whole body exercises, you would have seen a significant drop in stomach fat.

What does that mean? Well it suggests you would not be searching for a way to lose stomach fat as you already would be looking great.

So back to the drawing board. What type of full body exercises should you be doing?

To be truly effective, your exercise has to send a message to the body that it needs more fuel, and a lot of it, straight away. This is called kicking up the metabolism. The way to send that message is to use a combination of mild exertion followed by intense exertion followed by mild effort and so on .

An example of this would be walking / jogging for two minutes followed by sprinting for one minute followed by walking two mins. Repeat it. Your body’s metabolism will start to process fat into fuel to feed what it perceives is an immediate need to power your muscles. What’s more, it’ll continue to process that fat even after you stop exercising.

If you are more into resistance training you can follow the same idea. Mild resistance followed by intense resistance. Just make sure you can get your heart rate up while doing this. You would like your blood pumping to assemble the new fuel being made by the fat being burned.

If you have been doing spot coaching religiously then you already have the discipline. Just switch up the exercises and you’ll lose that fat within two weeks.

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