How to Lose Abdominal Fat

Before embarking upon a fitness regime to lose abdominal fat, it is important to understand under what conditions will it be possible to lose such fat. The main principle behind this is that abdominal muscles will not show unless the body reaches an ideal muscle to fat ratio.

This ideal ratio can be effectively achieved through two kinds of exercises - weight lifting and cardio exercises. These exercises are to be done complementary to one another in order to show best results.


Weight Lifting - the primary principle behind weight lifting is that it helps in increasing the muscle bulk. And this increase is important to some extent as it is the muscle that is capable of expending the energy required to burn fats.

It is common knowledge that excess energy in the body is stored away as fat between tissues. Therefore, it is all the more important that the energy be used up in building muscles so that the additional fat can be lost.


In trying to build muscles, it is always an advantage if one starts with tries doing so on bigger parts of the body such as the thighs, hamstrings, back and the chest. Since these are larger parts, they are capable of losing more fat.

Cardio Exercises - this is one of the most popular forms of exercises. What such a programme does is utilizes the glucose store in the body to make up for the energy used or lost during these cardio exercises, after which it proceeds to use up the fat store in the body. This eventually leads to a weight loss.

Any exercise that entails remaining in motion for a long time would fall under the cardio exercise category. These include running, power walking, swimming, cycling, basketball, soccer, tennis and many more.

In conclusion, it must be remembered that the two above mentioned complementary exercises will have opposite affect on weight. While weight lifting would increase weight due to increase in muscle bulk, the cardio variety will reduce weight. These two will eventually counterbalance each other. It is for this reason weighing oneself to find out progress is never a good idea.

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