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.

Through the proper fat loss program, featuring high intensity exercise, it is possible to reduce your body fat to the point that you will see trouble areas melt away. A properly guided exercise program that asks your body to utilize compound movement schemes and the proper length:tension (length tension ratio) will dramatically increase your results in the gym.

Resistance training with just the resistance of your body, or body weight training, can be some of the most powerful and effective exercise you can consider when choosing a program that aims to provide you with noticeable results. It is misguided to think that lifting heavy weights is necessary for for better fat loss results.

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.

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.