If you are looking for how to reduce tummy fat, flab or even fuzz, you have come to the right place! Actually, forget the fuzzy bit, I will only talk about reducing tummy fat and flab.
To begin, many people look to yoga to reduce tummy fat, or more specifically, yoga for weight loss. However, yoga is not very effective when compared to weight lifting.
Yoga is usually a form of stretching, and although the forms vary from extremely mild workouts to stuff that is pretty intense bodyweight exercise, it is much faster to learn to lift weights as a beginner.
The first dilemma for how to reduce tummy fat may be exercise selection, but let me make that easy for you. Do complex barbell movements. A lot of people espouse the benefits of unilateral motions, but they are full of a four letter explicative.
Even if you squat 1000 pounds, you cannot one legged squat anywhere near this amount, or anywhere near half the amount.
However, I am going off topic. Let me give you a few principles that will help in your weight management:
- The more muscles you recruit, the more calories you burn.
- The greater intensity you exercise with, the more calories you burn.
- The longer you exercise, the more calories you burn.
Most people know the third one quite well and think weight management just boils down to working out longer.
However, you cannot continue to workout longer indefinitely!
Eventually, workouts will become too long to be practical, and this happens rather quickly, especially with “aerobics”. As a result, you have to utilize tips one and two.
The more muscles you recruit, the more calories you burn. This means that squats will help you burn more calories than biceps curls. The bench press will help you burn more calories than triceps extensions.
Greater intensity also forces your body to work harder. When you do this, it burns more calories. Compare sprints to jogging. You can get the same calorie burning benefits of jogging for an hour with just a few sets of all-out thirty second sprints. Your body is forced to go anaerobic and you are getting great muscle contractions.
Compare long distance runners physiques with sprinters.
Sprinters have muscle and great definition while long distance runners are skinny and flabby. The difference is that sprinters are tensing everything when they sprint while joggers are hardly tensing an muscles at all by comparison.
Now, you are probably wondering how to reduce your tummy flab using these principles?
All weight loss tips revolve either around diet and or exercise. Since we have already looked at exercise principles for burning calories, we will focus on this for now.
One last thing before talking about exercise, weight loss tips for women are the same as weight loss tips for men. It does not matter if you are a man or a woman – both people respond the same to exercise. Your muscles are exactly the same, the only difference from a training perspective is whether you can push yourself to the limit at all times of the month. Women can still workout at this time, but should not push themselves too hard since their bodies are already under varying degrees of stress.
One last thing to get out of the way before talking about how to lose your tummy fat which is the myth of spot reduction.
Spot reduction is a myth, for the most part.
You can increase circulation to your fatty regions and then engage the muscles around those areas to get somewhat of a more specific fat-loss effect. However, you should only be concerned with this method once the bulk of the fat is already gone. Save spot reduction for the bodybuilders because you are likely not one, and what I am about to say next is far more effective.
I have talked about what kinds of exercise are best for burning calories (which you can read as fat), as well as dispelled several myths about how to lose tummy fat. So the secret to reducing tummy fat is…
Lose fat in general.
Weight loss is not the same as fat loss. As a matter of fact, you can gain weight while losing fat at the same time. This is the ideal scenario for all bodybuilders.
The more muscle you have on your frame, the more calories you will burn.
Therefore, your goal is to lose fat.
This can be accomplished through heavy and intense exercise. This does not mean you need to exercise for hours, but do several sets of very heavy and explosive training. Olympic lifts are wonderful as are the power lifts. High intensity interval training is also leaps and bounds better than jogging on the treadmill or reading a book while on the stationary bike.
Get used to the idea of powerful, explosive movements.
If you do this and nourish your body with good foods, you will lose fat. As you lose fat, your waistline will get smaller, but this is one of the most stubborn areas on the body, so that may be the last place that your body drops the fat. Spot reduction will not help you if you are carrying tummy fat elsewhere.
I hope you have found this article on how to lose tummy fat informative and helpful and I wish you the motivation and wisdom required to be successful in your efforts.
