How do you lose abdominal fat? This is a rather sought after answer. People slave away at the gym for months at a time, trying to build the perfect six pack, only to realise they will never show until they lose abdominal fat.
Body fat is simply excess calories your body has stored. In order to lose abdominal fat, you need to reduce your body fat percentage. You cant simply spot target areas of your body to lose fat from. You lose and gain fat across your entire body. Fat is simply stored wherever convenient by your body, it is also lost wherever convenient from your body.
Doing endless sit-ups will not help you lose abdominal fat. You need a diet that provides less calories than your body burns (calorie deficient) and also an exercise routine that effectively burns calories that you have already stored (as fat).
The most effective exercise routine to lose abdominal fat is a high intensity, interval workout. People focus too much on aerobic exercise, however, this is not efficient. With high intensity, interval training, you get to train for less time, and burn a lot more fat. The most amazing benefit is that your metabolism is increased, and stays that way for hours after you finish exercising.
There are many ways to train with high intensity intervals. You can do hill runs, interval sprints, or my personal favourite, fartlek.
Fartlek is basically a rather casual interval run. You begin by simply jogging, however, throughout the run, you alternate with highly intense sprints, you then recover by slowing to a jog. This is known as active recover and is very, very effective. You can sprint for as long or as short as your want. I personally like to use trees as my counter. I focus on a tree in the distance and sprint. When I pass it, I slow to a jog, and when I recover, I sprint again.
This level of training is rather difficult, but once you get used to it, it is probably one the most rewarding methods of training. Not only will it help you lose abdominal fat, but you will turbo charge your aerobic and anaerobic conditioning.
As your total body fat percentage starts to drop, you will lose abdominal fat. Your abs will start to be very visible as you lower it to around 10%. Each percentage drop after will increase the visibility.
So, start focusing on your diet, put on your running shoes, and give high intensity interval training a go. It is the only real way to lose abdominal fat.
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