How To Spot Reduce And Get Rid Of Belly Fat

There's a hot debate going on in the world of weight loss; spot reducing trouble spots on the body such as belly fat. Most people believe that spot targeting belly fat just isn't possible, no matter how many sit-ups or crunches you do. However, researchers are now saying that it just might be possible to spot reduce areas of the body that have excess fat.

Spot Reducing To Lose Belly Fat Fast: The Research

Recent research has shown that if a specific muscle is worked, the fat around the area as well as the intramuscular fat provides fuel for the exercise. For instance, if you're working your abdominal muscles, the body uses the body fat in the area of your abdomen for fuel. More research must be done, but based on these findings, I've come up with a very simple exercise approach for spot reducing belly fat quickly.

Step 1 - Decide On Abs Exercises That Target Belly Fat

To start, select three to five different resistance exercises that target the abdominal muscles. These exercises could be sit-ups, crunches, hanging leg raises, or hanging knee raises to name just a few. Any assortment of abdominal exercises that you enjoy doing will work.

Step 2 - Decide On Fat Burning Cardio Exercises

The next step is to select any kind of low intensity cardio exercise that you find enjoyable. This could be jogging outdoors or on a treadmill, rowing machine, bicycling, jumping rope, or swimming. Any activity that you enjoy that gets your heart pumping is considered low intensity cardio.

Step 3 - Combine Your Belly Fat Cardio Routine With Abdominal Exercises

Now that you've chosen the exercises, it's time to pair them up and start spot reducing that unwanted belly fat fast. Start out with your cardio exercise. Do this activity for 5-10 minutes to warm up. Next, move on to the first abdominal exercise and do as many repetitions as possible. I recommend starting off with the resistance exercise that you find most difficult.

Step 4 - Work Both Exercises To Get Rid Of Belly Fat

Do the abdominal exercise until you can't do any more. When you're unable to do any more repetitions, go back to the cardio exercise. Do this activity for another 5-10 minutes, but at a slow pace. This level of intensity works best for burning body fat for energy. You don't have to do the same cardio exercise; you can switch it up for a little variety.

Final Step - Spot Reducing Belly Fat

Once you've done the low intensity cardio exercise for 5-10 minutes, do a different abdominal exercise. For example, you started out with crunches, you might do sit-ups or hanging leg lifts next. Do as many repetitions of this exercise as you can before going back to another round of low intensity cardio. Continue this circuit, going back and forth between resistance exercise and low intensity cardio.

There is still no definitive proof that this method of spot reducing will help you lose belly fat fast, but based on recent studies, mobilizing body fat in a targeted area may help reduce or eliminate excess fat. In this case we're targeting belly fat, but it may potentially work in other problem areas as well.

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.

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