Ab Workouts For Getting Rid Of A Fat Belly

Extra fat belly can keep you from looking good and feeling good, but worse, it can be really hard on your body and lead to serious illness. Knowing your body type can give you a clear understanding on why you are fat. Long skinny body types also have excessive body fat and don't have trouble being fat, but they cannot gain muscle as easily. Stocky, big boned body type have trouble losing weight, but no problems gaining muscle. Muscle and high metabolism is the catalyst of losing overall body fat.

Ab workouts such as sit ups, crunches and ab rollers are not the solution to getting rid of your fat belly. Here are some fat burning mistakes you must avoid ultimately:

Problem #1 - Trying to spot reduce or spot weight loss (ab rollers and exercise machines). You can't reduce fat in one location, no matter how convenient that might be. Instead, you have to focus in an overall body fitness regimen and proper dieting. In the process, you'll lose that extra fat. Have a strategic plan of attack when you workout at home or at your favorite gymnasium. Ab workouts definitely has its place. However, that place is the development of your abdominal muscles, not fat loss. After you've lost the fat, you'll be able to see those muscles, but you've got to lose the excess fat first.

Problem #2 - Working out incorrectly, for too long. Not knowing the difference can make or break you. Like the bowflex commercial 20 minutes 3 times a week, believe or not it works (they leave out the dieting part out) It's true - you can work out too much. For optimum fat loss effectiveness, you should be doing your cardio in the morning, on an empty stomach(Yes, gotta get up early). Start slow, I found most effective is an Elliptical Machine or Gym Bike. Put it on a high setting, grab your ipod and let the calorie burning furnace do its awesome work. 30-35 is great but stick with at least 20minutes. Not any longer as your body adjusts and it shuts down the calorie burning mechanism.

Problem #3 - It is not all about cardio. It's one of the most common misconceptions in the fitness world; Cardio for fat loss, weights for size. Wrong. One of the most effective fat loss secrets is to elevate your basil metabolic rate. This keeps your body in a calorie burning furnace all day long. One of the most effective ways to elevate your basil metabolic rate, and keep it up, is to build lean body mass using weight training. It significantly increases your basil metabolic rate not only during the workout, but through the day and while you sleep. Muscle is the catalyst of all fat burning. (don't worry about looking like Arnold, it took him years of intense training and other "supplements")

Focus on keeping track of your calories, if you are a male, 200 lbs stick with 2200 calories a day. This are the consuming calories, remember that your body will burn off calories during workouts and after workouts. Same for females if you are 120-135 lbs stick with 1200-1500 calorie intake. Spread out your meal into 6 different times with a 3-3.5 hour difference. This will elevate your basil metabolic rate (calorie burning on autopilot) and you will reap its benefits.

Hot Tip: Negative calories. Yes, this is where the fun begins. Negative calories is the amount of calories at the end of your day you have burned off. Say, your calorie daily intake is 2200 calories, and you worked out this morning and burned 400-600 calories on you 20 minute Elliptical session. You just went to sleep to 1600 calories just from your work out. But don't forget if you keep your BMR(basil metabolic rate) that's an additional 200-300 calories, you see where i am going.

After all 1 pound of fat equals around 3500 calories (get your body fat % and subtract it to your normal weight that equals your total fat pounds, eghh). Getting rid of 1 1/2 - 2 pounds of fat a week is very healthy and most recommended. Stay focused on your calorie intake and your workout sessions, start slow but with a weekly goal in mind and you will be sporting some sexy washboard abs in a few months and saying good by to that fat belly forever.