3 Tips To Lose Belly Fat

Are you frustrated with your weight loss results even though you have lost some fat around your middle and your spare truck tire is now the size of a bicycle tire?

For us busy dads its seems that fat loves to hang out around our belly.

Well it's time to issue your belly fat an eviction notice and get that fat burning furnace started again...

Basically what is happening when you plateau on a weight loss program is your body is adapting to the workouts and caloric intake.

Your body is smart and is catching on to your fat loss efforts. It's fat loss reserves are getting lower so it's panicking and holding on to whats left.

It's like when people who swim continue to be able to swim more laps and thinking that it is a good thing as they are doing more and improving their conditioning.

But what is happening is your body is burning less calories each time because you are IMPROVING your conditioning.

The harder your muscles and heart work to move your body the more calories you will burn even at rest.

Just visualize spinning a top as your metabolism...


You want to spin it really hard so it will continue to spin on its own when you let go of it.

Ok...enough analogies, I think you get the point!

So you will just need to kick things up a notch and cause a metabolic disturbance in your body so you keep losing fat.

Variety is the spice of life inside and outside the gym. Constantly challenging yourself improves your physical fitness as well as mental fitness.

We all know if you are bored with your current workout routine, you won't do it. So don't let your workouts get stale!

1. Change up your weight training workouts to exercises that you haven't been doing. Make sure to focus on exercises that work many muscles at once like squats, deadlifts and pushups. Use different rep ranges like 1-3, 4-6, 8-10 and 12-15 reps, different angles such as flat, incline and decline, and shorter rest periods, 30, 60, 90 seconds or no rest.

2. Stop slaving away on the treadmill for your cardio and use bodyweight exercises and barbell or dumbbell complexes where you superset without rest from one exercise to another. This will burn a ton of calories in a short amount of time because you are using all your bodies major muscles while increasing your heart rate.

3. As for your diet plan, don't drop your calories too low, too fast. This is a surefire way to lose lean muscle mass and slow down your metabolism. Take a closer look at your diet and track your caloric intake for a few days to make sure you are not taking in some hidden calories that you may not be aware of.

You can't trick basic biology. If you are burning up more calories than you are taking in, you WILL lose weight.

One simple tip for fast fat loss is to only eat starchy carbs like oatmeal, breads and brown rice within the 2 hour period AFTER your workout. That's when your body will use carbs for restoring energy instead of storing fat.

For the rest of your daily meals and snacks, eat only fruits and veggies for energy and fiber rich carbohydrates.

With a few little diet tweaks and adding some variety and intensity into your weight loss plan you should start losing that frustrating fat again.




Sean Barker, CPT

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