A lot of people want to lose fat around their stomach.
Unfortunately, they try to use things such as the following:
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1. Doing lots of crunches
2. Fad diets
3. Infomercial exercise gimmicks
4. Doing lots of same speed cardio for long periods of time
Now, why are these things not very conducive to someone's effort to lose fat around their stomach?
The answer is simple, none of these things are a long term solution to decrease the number of calories you take in or help to raise your metabolism.
Thats right, the real key to lose fat around your stomach is to:
1. Decrease the number of calories you take in.
2. Increase your active and resting metabolism.
A lot of people try to do lots of crunches to lose fat around their stomach. Unfortunately, doing lots of crunches doesn't help to reduce fat in that specific area. If you lose fat, you are going to lose it in the same proportion all around your body!
Lets take a look at the two ways we just talked about to help you lose fat around your stomach.
1. Decrease the number of calories you take in.
This is absolutely crucial to understand if you really want to lose fat around your stomach. If your daily diet does not change, your body will not change either.
If you decrease how much you eat overall and focus replacing the bad foods with the right ones, you can start to lose fat around your stomach and other places without starting to exercise!
A great tip to keep in mind when trying to lose fat is to avoid bad carbs. Bad carbs are stored as fat because they raise your blood sugar. Then, your body releases more insulin to store the excess blood sugar as fat.
2. Increase your active and resting metabolism.
This is accomplished by exercise, mainly by a combination of strength training and interval training.
Strength training adds muscle. The added muscle mass then burns more calories while being active and while at rest. So, if you want to lose fat around your stomach and all over your body, strength train!
Interval training consists of going back and forth between high and low intensities. For example, you might try warming up for 5 minutes on a bike, then pedalling slow for 2 minutes and then fast for 1 minute. Repeat this 2-1 minute cycle 3-6 times and you have a great interval training set to help you lose stomach fat!
So if you want to lose fat around your stomach, you want to concentrate on combining a great diet that has less overall calories than you are used to. Of course, you want to avoid the "bad carbs" as well. Then, combine strength training and interval training 3-4 times per week.
You can lose fat around your stomach and all over your body if you do these things right.
So stay away from the fad diets and the infomercial gimmicks. The best way to lose fat around your stomach comes from diet, strength training, and interval training!
Remember that your safety is the most important thing, so you will want to check with a doctor before beginning an exercise program.
Good luck, stay persistent, and know that you can be successful!
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Lose Fat Around Stomach - Why You Need To Forget the Fad Diets and Infomercials
Tom Gifford is a Certified Personal Trainer by the American Council on Exercise. His website at [http://www.TheFatLossZone.com] offers a free 47 page ebook titled "How to Fire Up Your Metabolism and Lose Body Fat Permanently". Tom's free newsletter from The Fat Loss Zone is jam packed with tips and techniques guaranteed to get you on the fast track to having a slim and sexy physique.