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How To Lose Belly Fat

I found this article on lifehack.org. Lifehack.org is a great site that offers many tid-bids of information on various topics. This article is a great reference if you are trying to lose weight. Check it out!
Spare Tire
Love Handles
Muffin Top
Pot Belly
All somewhat comical terms for belly fat. Most people don’t like having that extra flab around their midsections, but we tend to just put up with it. There is much conflicting advice out there, and besides, we’ve failed in the past so there’s no guarantee we’ll succeed anyway.

Take heart, there is a truly effective strategy to lose belly fat, but you may have to loosen up some old preconceptions. Please note that in this article I am specifically talking about fat loss as opposed to overall weight loss (fat, muscle & water).

How To Lose Belly Fat – The Guide

The strategy involves both diet and exercise – nothing new there. However, it entails 2 unique ways of going about it.

The Diet – Become a Fat-Burner

Low-carbohydrate nutrition is the most-effective way of shedding pounds of fat from the body.

Why?

Basically, the body burns energy in the following order:

Carbohydrate (from food and stored glycogen)
Fat (from food and bodyfat)
Protein (from food and muscle tissue)
If you eat what most government guidelines recommend you eat, you are a carb-burner. It then becomes obvious that in order to become a fat-burner, you should remove the current primary energy source i.e. carbohydrate.

When you do this, your body takes a few days to flip a ‘metabolic switch’ and become a fat-burning machine. At that point, the fat you eat gets consumed first, and then you start burning away bodyfat as your primary source of energy. Obviously, you don’t therefore consume copious amounts of fat, and you don’t need to go zero carb to benefit. Anything under 100 grams of carbs a day is considered ‘low-carb’, but ideally under 60 grams would produce great results.

On low-fat diets (which by nature are high-carb diets), when your ‘food calories’ are gone, the body will burn a mixture of both fat and muscle tissue (protein). As muscle is ‘metabolically active’ — it burns calories all day long just by being there — losing it is a disaster for the dieter. Their metabolism will continually slow down over time.

This is one of the main reasons why low-fat diets very often produce temporary results: you lose weight for a while, but then it stops working (as your metabolism has crashed) and you pile it back on – and then some!

The Exercise

Loads and loads of cardio, right? Wrong.

Overdoing cardiovascular exercise will also put your body in a state where it breaks down lean muscle tissue (catabolism). So the question is, how do we complement our fat-burning nutritional strategy with fat-burning exercise.

It’s called ‘Interval Training’, or more specifically ‘High Intensity Interval Training’. The idea is to perform some sort of cardio in ‘fits and starts’ i.e. a period of lower intensity followed by a period of higher intensity.

Why?

Research shows that this type of work burns more fat than steady-state cardio, typically by about 50%. In fact, one study showed a 9 fold increase in fat loss for HIIT compared to low-medium intensity cardio.

Also, with respect to belly fat in particular, research has shown (though the reason is not clear at this time) that HIIT can produce more fat loss in this area than other parts of the body. An Australian study found that the HIIT group lost 3 times more fat and significantly more belly fat than the steady-state cardio group who actually exercised for twice as long!

The even better news is that HIIT need only be performed for 10-20 minutes at a time.

Hopefully you can see that these unique approaches to diet and nutrition will work synergistically to produce truly effective fat-loss:

Get your body to burn fat for energy.
Then add exercise that will utilize the most fat possible.
There’s obviously more to talk about on this topic, but a single post doesn’t permit me to get into it all. I hope you enjoyed it and if nothing else, you feel inspired to find any weight-loss program that you feel you can work with to bring permanent results.”

Mark is a muscle & nutrition enthusiast who has spent years in independent research finding the most effective strategies for physical excellence. Mark will help you build muscle & lose fat with an effective free workout plan and diet. He is the author of ‘Total Six Pack Abs’, the guaranteed system for burning fat & sculpting chiseled abs.

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4th of July

As the 4th of July comes upon us, we all know what is coming: the food. There will be barbeque’s, parties, and other sort of food arrays throughout the entire weekend. The 4th, along with Christmas and thanksgiving, can be one of the most hurtful days to a diet and trying to eat healthy. All the hamburgers and hot dogs, and beverages can really take a toll on your body. But you do not have to go hungry in order to ensure that you stay on your healthy lifestyle plan. Know your portion size and know what is better than the others. There is a great book written by the editor of Men’s Health Magazine, David Zinczenko, called “eat this not that”. It breaks down the things that you should eat, rather than that what you should not. The book understands that the normal person eats out, goes to barbeque’s and other events. This book shows the best things to eat, when a side salad is not an option.

Weighted Vests

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One of the most asked questions I get as a fitness professional goes something like this:
“So, I have been walking to get into shape, but I want something more. What do you suggest?”

Even hard core athletes ask questions along these lines: “I need something to put me over the top and give me an advantage against my competitors. What tools do you have?

ADD MORE WEIGHT!

I am a big fan of adding weight in the form of a weighted vest. MiR has some great vests ranging in all types of weights. The best thing is, they are not big and bulky like other vests. They are shorter, and less bulkier, meaning you can walking in it, work out in it, and increase your weight which increase work which increases results!

MiR 20Lbs Short Adjustable Weighted Vest is one of the best vests on the market. The 20lbs vest adds just enough weight to where the work outs are more challenging. The best part about the MiR series of vests in that they are adustable: If you work out of the 20 lbs and increase so much that 20lbs isn’t doing much for you, you can go right into the next weight. They have weights all the up to 150 lbs.If you are an athlete needing to boost your speed and leg power, try running some sprints with vest on, or doing standing squats. You feel the little weight change.
Although the vest are becoming less bulky, it still feel sometimes like you are wearing a bullet proof vest. If you are new to vests, it may take some time gettiing use to. But that awkward feeling goes away and you barely feel the vest. You feel the weight, not the vest. If you can get over the little bit of odd look wearing the vest, I recommend these to anyone, whether you are an athlete or trying to lose a few more pounds. They are an easy way to gain a little more power and lose a little more weight.

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Treadmill Vs. Walking

This question gets posed many time. Should I be walking outside, or on a treadmill? Is there even a difference?Martica Heaner, who writes for MSN Health and Fitness, gives a great answer to this. “Walking fast or running on a treadmill feels tougher. Outdoors, the time can fly because you get distracted by playing kids, barking dogs, birds, cars and passing scenery. And you may even get the benefits of a cool breeze. But on the treadmill you tend to feel every drop of sweat. And it’s like waiting for a pot to boil as you watch mere seconds pass while you try to meet your time or mileage goal for the session.

A recent study found that treadmill workouts are, in fact, as hard as they feel. Researchers at Missouri State University put eight trained runners through their paces on a treadmill and outside. While working at the same intensity in both conditions (measured by heart rate), the runners not only felt like they were working out harder when they were on the treadmill, they ran faster.

Why? Outdoor sidewalks, trails and tracks can provide a little give during a workout. You can naturally and automatically slow down, or you might have to stop at a traffic light or get out of someone else’s way. When you come upon a hill, you get to run downhill, which gives you a little breather. You may also slow down if you get distracted by things around you.

Treadmills are a great home exercise tool. They provide a great home workout that you ca really do anytime, they are lower impact, and you do not have to worry about the hustle and bustle of a busy gym. You get a great cardio workout on your time. Treadmills can range in prices. One good treadmill is the Bowflex Series 7 Treadmill. You can buy it on Amazon Fitness site.  Amazon Fitness is running specials this June, so now is the time to buy. Treadmills now-a-days are space saving, lighter, and more conveient for customers. They are a great tool to help you achieve the fitness goals that you have set for yourself. Here are a few more treadmill options: