Lose Belly Fat Through Exercise

By Kareem F Samhouri, DPT, CSCS, HFI · Saturday, August 16th, 2008
by Kareem F Samhouri, DPT, CSCS, HFI

Belly fat loss with exercise can be challenging for someone that doesn’t fully understand how fat loss works in the human body. In truth, noticing fat loss in your abdominal region is usually last. Fat loss normally occurs in all other body parts first, with special exception to the hips, buttocks, love handles, and belly.

High intensity exercise is known to reduce body fat percentage, thereby constituting a more targeted fat loss program. Compound movement sequences in an exercise program, as well as proper flexibility and strength requirements with each exercise, dramatically improve results with fat loss programs.

Many people wonder whether or not body weight resistance exercise serves adequately to reduce belly fat through exercise. In truth, body weight resistance exercise is enough to help almost ninety-percent of all the clients I see reach their weight loss and fitness goals.

Advanced resistance training multiple times per week is beyond the demand of most people’s goals. Fitness professionals are often approached by clients with the intention of trimming fat, losing weight, and increasing endurance. To effectively reach these goals, there are few ways superior to manipulating your own body weight through difficult and varied movements. Some great examples of body weight exercises include squat thrusts, pull ups, planks, burpees, reverse lunges, and push up superset.

For the most part, each one of these exercises targets the entire body, rather than isolated segments of the body, thereby dramatically increasing metabolic demand, and improving fat loss results.

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