Saturday, August 16, 2008

Lose Belly Fat Through Exercise

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.

Heavy weight lifting, several times per week, is not necessary for most people's goals. Most people come to personal trainers with the intention of losing fat, decreasing body weight, and improving stamina. In order to this effectively, I cannot think of a better way than forcing the body to be able to resist its own weight through dynamic and challenging movements. Some of my favorite body weight exercises include the burpee, squat thrust, pull up, plank, push up superset, and reverse lunge.

The reason that these exercises are so powerful is because they target the whole body, rather than segmental regions of isolated muscle use. Whole body movements are known to increase caloric expenditure with exercise, thereby improving fat loss results.

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