By
Edwina May Silk
3 things that will cause your exercising to be less successful.
1. If you exercise and you can carrying on a conversation for an hour or you read a book for the hour then you are not really exercising.
2. Do not include strength training
3. If you exercise and you still eat unhealthy foods in excess you are sabotaging yourself and any
goals to burn belly fat.
Let's look into these factors more closely...
Exercise
The key to burn belly fat is to decrease the total amount of body fat in the entire body. To do this you must perform cardiovascular exercises that include intervals of high bursts of energy are the best way to blast belly fat otherwise known as Interval Training. Interval training means increasing the intensity of exercise for a brief time then drop to a lower intensity. Also you need to start incorporating strength training into your exercise routine. Building lean muscles will help reduce body fat (aka burn belly fat) and burn calories more efficiently; studies show each pound of muscle you gain, you will burn 40-50 more calories every day which means you are burning fat while you sleep.
Cardio Example:
Every week aim for 3-4 days of interval training cardio training. For example: 5 minutes warm up, 1 minute high intensity, 2 minutes lower intensity, repeated 4 times finishing with a 5 minute cool down equaling a total of 22-25 minutes. You can achieve this either on the gym machines or outside: One of my favorite interval cardio activities is running up and down stairs. For the high intensity run up the stairs for 2 minutes lower intensity walk down the stairs.
Strength Training
3 times a week I included strength training exercises. If you do not have access to a gym you can accomplish by using body weight: push-ups, lunges, squats and ab planks, to name a few.
Nutrition
Changing your eating and drinking habits will be the main ingredient to be successful in burning belly fat.
1. Eliminate soda and alcohol
2. Eat well rounded meals
3. Eat 5-6 meals a day.
A great way for burning belly fat is to minimize alcohol beverages and sodas. Both soda and alcohol piles up the fat in the body by adding 200-400 empty calories. You need to aim for 5-6 well rounded meals every day. This means for each meal you should aim for 300-400 calories per meal that contains 50 percentage carbohydrates, 30 percent protein and 20 percent fat. This translates into about 3 oz of protein, 1 cup of vegetables and half a cup of carbs (rice)
In summary exercise will only show results if coupled with a healthy, controlled diet; when you stop consuming and depositing new fats in the body you will be able to start burning off the stored fat.
Following these simple tips you will start to see results in a couple of weeks. Start now, see and feel the belly fat burning away.
1. If you exercise and you can carrying on a conversation for an hour or you read a book for the hour then you are not really exercising.
2. Do not include strength training
3. If you exercise and you still eat unhealthy foods in excess you are sabotaging yourself and any
goals to burn belly fat.
Let's look into these factors more closely...
Exercise
The key to burn belly fat is to decrease the total amount of body fat in the entire body. To do this you must perform cardiovascular exercises that include intervals of high bursts of energy are the best way to blast belly fat otherwise known as Interval Training. Interval training means increasing the intensity of exercise for a brief time then drop to a lower intensity. Also you need to start incorporating strength training into your exercise routine. Building lean muscles will help reduce body fat (aka burn belly fat) and burn calories more efficiently; studies show each pound of muscle you gain, you will burn 40-50 more calories every day which means you are burning fat while you sleep.
Cardio Example:
Every week aim for 3-4 days of interval training cardio training. For example: 5 minutes warm up, 1 minute high intensity, 2 minutes lower intensity, repeated 4 times finishing with a 5 minute cool down equaling a total of 22-25 minutes. You can achieve this either on the gym machines or outside: One of my favorite interval cardio activities is running up and down stairs. For the high intensity run up the stairs for 2 minutes lower intensity walk down the stairs.
Strength Training
3 times a week I included strength training exercises. If you do not have access to a gym you can accomplish by using body weight: push-ups, lunges, squats and ab planks, to name a few.
Nutrition
Changing your eating and drinking habits will be the main ingredient to be successful in burning belly fat.
1. Eliminate soda and alcohol
2. Eat well rounded meals
3. Eat 5-6 meals a day.
A great way for burning belly fat is to minimize alcohol beverages and sodas. Both soda and alcohol piles up the fat in the body by adding 200-400 empty calories. You need to aim for 5-6 well rounded meals every day. This means for each meal you should aim for 300-400 calories per meal that contains 50 percentage carbohydrates, 30 percent protein and 20 percent fat. This translates into about 3 oz of protein, 1 cup of vegetables and half a cup of carbs (rice)
In summary exercise will only show results if coupled with a healthy, controlled diet; when you stop consuming and depositing new fats in the body you will be able to start burning off the stored fat.
Following these simple tips you will start to see results in a couple of weeks. Start now, see and feel the belly fat burning away.
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