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Tuesday, April 1, 2008

How to loose your abdominal fat

The simple and most important fact that you should about know losing abdominal fat is that there is no magic formula which can make your abdominal fat disappear with in one second or a minute. Losing abdominal fat requires a permanent way patience and engagement with some basic ends. But do not lose the heart. It is an exploit which no matter who can achieve the easy manner if one includes/understands the reasons for which the abdominal fat develops and why it seems so frustratingly resistant to all those exercise or diet plans you have tried out but given up too soon to see results. These could work when there is proper diet control. Lets discuss in detail.

The first thing that you must understand is that there is no physical exercise, which can reduce the fat from a specific part of the body. When you burn fat for energy, as during an aerobic activity, the large loss occurs systematically, that is from all over the body. But since the large distribution changes the person to the person naturally, according to inherited genetic factors', with some will tend to lose large abdominal more quickly while others can lose fat with the hips or the thighs of word more quickly. Thus do not compare your large abdominal graph of loss with others.

Another thing, doing countless sit-ups and leg-raises or slogging out day in and day out on the latest abs equipment without paying heed to your diet and an aerobic activity is not going to make your abdominal fat go away. What these exercises do is to shape up and tone your abdominal muscles, but do nothing to metabolize away the layers of fat covering them. That is why the shaped and toned muscles remain elusive to the eye.

There is one and only one easy way of losing abdominal fat and that is with the combination of a balanced and nutritive diet, aerobic activity, and strengthening exercises for abdominal and other muscles. The best kind of workout to burn the layers of abdominal fat along with overall fat comprises a cardiovascular or aerobic exercise like brisk walking, jogging, cycling, dancing, swimming or stair climbing, combined with abdominal exercises like crunches and hip lifts, and also weight training for other muscle groups. Weight training increases your lean muscle mass and hence your metabolic rate, implying that you burn fatter even while resting.

Abdominal exercises or Aerobic Exercises will help strengthen the muscles and give definition to the reducing midsection. However, if your calorie intake is higher than your calorie expenditure, you are bound to put on abdominal fat as well as general body fat regardless of how diligently you work out and how many abdominal crunches you do a day- it is simple mathematics in action. Ideally, spread your calorie intake into five small meals a day instead of 2 or 3 big ones.

Remember, when it comes to losing abdominal fat, you have to adopt a holistic, whole-body approach, as there are absolutely no shortcuts. A surgical shortcut like liposuction also becomes meaningless if you are not going to control to your diet, because removing fat cells from the abdomen by liposuction will lead to excess fat storage elsewhere and perhaps under the chin or on knees or shoulders- where it may look even worse than at the abdomen.

Lastly, here is a fact that is not exactly what you would want to hear: even if you are on a holistic exercise-cum-diet fat loss plan, abdominal fat is most likely going to be the last fat to leave your body.


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