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Lose Excess Belly Fat - The 3 Mistakes You Just Cant Make
by Steve Faber
You can lose the excess belly fat, get a nice set of abs, and improve your overall health at the same time, but there are some fat burning mistakes you must avoid in the process.
Belly Fat Loss Mistake #1 - Trying to spot reduce. You cant reduce fat in one location, no matter how convenient that might be. Instead, you must adopt a strategy to burn fat throughout your body. In the process, youll lose that excess belly fat. In that vein, dont lose sight of your fat loss goal and waste time with endless ab work. Ab work definitely has its place. However, that place is the development of your abdominal muscles, not fat loss. After youve lost the fat, youll be able to see those muscles, but youve got to lose the excess fat first.
Belly Fat Loss Mistake #2 - Working out incorrectly, for too long. Its true - you can work out too much. For optimum fat loss effectiveness, you should be doing your cardio in the morning, on an empty stomach. You should do relatively high intensity cardio for about 25 - 30 minutes, no more. Its ironic, many people will find this too difficult, but will think nothing of spending 45 minutes on the bike or an hour in kickboxing aerobics.
Belly Fat Loss Mistake #3 - Trying to do it all with cardio. Its one of the most common misconceptions in the fitness world; Cardio for fat loss, weights for size. Wrong, wrong, wrong. One of the most effective fat loss strategies is to elevate your basil metabolic rate. That makes your body burn more calories throughout the day no matter your level of activity. One of the most effective ways to elevate your basil metabolic rate, and keep it up, is to build lean body mass using weight training. Not only will you burn calories while you are training, youll burn many mre throughout the day.
Remember, you need to burn 3,500 excess calories to lose one pound of fat. You just cant do that with a great cardio session. As an example, a 200lb man would have to string together 14 consecutive miles at an 8-1/2 minute/mile pace to burn 3,500 calories. Obviously, few people take their training sessions to that extreme. Its far more effective to train with weights to raise the basil metabolic rate.
You can lose that excess belly fat. As an added bonus, youll also rid yourself of other body fat and pick up that healthy, lean body youre after.
Its tough losing that last stubborn bit of excess belly fat. Its not be as hard as you think, you just have to know what how. Much of what youve been told is just plain wrong. You need to eat and work out correctly, sure, but what does that really mean?. See the Lose Your Fat Guide. 100,000 people cant be wrong.
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