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How To Lose Belly Fat : A Quick Guide

by Abhinav G. Movie Enthusiast
It’s been said that you can’t choose where on your body to lose fat.
True, you can’t. There are thousands upon thousands of products, programs, websites etc that will tell you how to lose belly fat via diet pills or specific exercises, but your genetics will ultimately determine where you lose your excess body fat. Bottom line – you can’t lose that gut and leave other body parts covered in flab.
So, why start an article about losing belly fat by telling you that you can’t. If you think about it, I’m not. What I am saying however is that to achieve a slimline stomach you have to reduce fat all over your body. If you think about it, this is good news! Can you even imagine what you would look like if you had a perfect six pack and still carried around those moobs, chubby legs and bulging love-handles?
So, on to it – how to get a beautiful mid-section. Read the rest of this article and I’ll explain the two simple steps : Diet and & Exercise

Diet
Abs are made in the kitchen, not the gym. I’ve lost count of the number of magazines and websites where I’ve read that old adage – and if you ask my training partner he’ll tell you that I’m fond of using it myself. But it is true? Well, to a certain extent, yes it is. Exercise is a very important part of achieving low body fat, however this saying applies to ab exercises, which are next to useless unless you’re already at a low body fat percentage and want to add tone, definition and size. In fact, ab exercises can actually make a chubby stomach look even fatter, as increasing the muscle size will make it stick out more! So remember that the first step to a toned, well defined mid-section is a well thought out, calorie deficit diet – and not any form of ab exercise.

Exercise
When I talk about exercise I’m really talking about a combination of 3 things : sustained, low intensity cardiovasuclar exercise; High intensity interval training (or HIIT for short) and perhaps most important of all – training with resistance equipment. Sustained, low intensity cardio has been the long preferred method of bodybuilders for cutting excess fat prior to competition. This puts low demands on your body and is particularly useful if you have a low fitness level. HIIT, however, is considerably more effective. After building up a decent base level of fitness with low intensity cardio, a shift to HIIT can accelerate your fat loss like crazy. HIIT involves alternating between low and high intensity cardio activities (e.g walking and running). The third, and in my opinion, the most important factor, is resistance training. A good resistance training program not only burns calories (and therefore fat) during the exercise, but can also continue to burn fat for a considerable period following the training session.

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