Two Vital Secrets to Lose Belly Fat Fast and Get Six Pack Abs

Do you struggle with losing excess belly fat? I bet you think that you've tried every trick in the book to try to lose your stubborn belly fat. I'm sure you've seen lots of ads and commercials making all kinds of miracle claims that you can lose your abdominal fat overnight with their magic pill. How about all of the deceptive infomercial gadgets claiming you can reduce your belly fat in a few days just by strapping on some worthless "ab-belt" around your waist, or by using their patented "ab-roller-rocker" thingy.

I hope you've been insulted by all of this fraudulent marketing and the gimmicks and scams that are pushed on you to get you to believe that an overnight belly-fat reduction miracle is possible.

So let's look past the scams and gimmicks and get down to the reality of what techniques and strategies really do help you to lose your stubborn belly fat and keep it off for life!

One: The first important principle is how to structure your workouts. In order to stimulate fat-loss from your abdomen, you need to stop wasting your time doing all types of ab exercises with hundreds of reps of sit ups, crunches, leg lifts, and torso twists in the hopes of "spot-reducing" your belly and love handles.

You probably know by now if you've read any reputable fitness publications over the past decade that spot-reduction DOES NOT happen. It is a myth that just doesn't go away. The truth is, you don't lose belly fat by doing exercises that target the midsection. But unfortunately, even though most people now realize this (or at least they should), they still spend WAY too much of their workout time doing ab-specific exercises.

Now don't misunderstand me, a certain amount of ab-targeted exercises are great and they do help to strengthen your core and help you maintain a healthy back. But the fact is that direct abdominal exercises should be only a small portion of your workout routines. The majority of your time should be spent focusing on full body multi-joint exercises that work the largest muscle groups of the body like the legs, chest, and back.

Now that is one of the REAL secrets for ridding your body of that jiggly belly fat for good. Focusing on big multi-joint exercises for the largest muscles of your body greatly increases your metabolism both during the workout, and for 24-48 hours after your workout. This also stimulates an increased production of fat-burning hormones in your body. You simply don't get this type of metabolic and hormonal response by wasting most of your time with "abdominal-pumping" exercises.

Do you really want to lose belly fat? Well, then get your butt under a barbell and do some squats, deadlifts, lunges, step-ups, and back and chest work. It doesn't matter if you use barbells, dumbbells, or even bodyweight exercises, the focus needs to be on large muscle multi-joint exercises at a high intensity. That means no 5-minute rest periods between sets.

Losing your belly fat for good will require focus and intensity in your workouts! Anyone who tells you that you can do it while sitting on your couch watching TV with an "ab-belt" strapped to you, or doing only 2-minutes of crunching with your "ab-rocker-roller" is simply lying to you!

Two: The second important principle to rid yourself of your flabby belly involves nutrition. You need to realize that "diets" only work against your body in your effort to lose abdominal fat. If you follow any of the fad diets like low-carb, or low-fat, or the grapefruit diet, the soup diet, or anything else that restricts one or more of the macro-nutrients (protein, carbs, and fat), most of the time you will actually lose lean muscle and reduce your metabolic rate. This will only make you fatter in the long run, when you start to eat normally again!

Essentially you are messing up the hormonal balance in your body, the muscle glycogen process, insulin, blood sugar, etc., and this will stop your fat loss dead in its tracks!

So it is important to stop falling for the fad diets, and understand that as humans, we are designed to eat a balanced diet with a variety of foods from healthy natural sources of carbohydrates, proteins, AND fats. This gives your body all of the macro-nutrients as well as all of the vitamins, minerals, enzymes and antioxidants that your body needs to run as a well-oiled fat-burning machine!

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Michael Geary (CPT) is a recognized International Fitness Expert, contributing writer for Muscle & Fitness Magazine, and author of the internationally best-selling book, The Truth about Six-Pack Abs.