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5 Moves To Blast Belly Fat

Posted: 08/10/2011 7:56 am

Yes, you do have to eat healthy to burn the fat off of your belly. You must have more calories going out and fewer calories coming in. There are 3,500 calories in one pound of fat, so you need to be eating 500 fewer calories (calorie negative) than what you burn daily (daily active metabolic rate) to lose one pound of fat a week.

If your daily active metabolic rate is 2,500 calories per day, then you should be eating 2,000 calories a day to burn off one pound. of fat in a week. You can use this metabolic calculator to calculate your daily active metabolic rate. Then subtract 500 and that will be the number of calories a day you should be eating so you can lose one pound of fat a week.

The truth is you also need to be doing core exercises, because it's the synergy of a great training program and a great meal plan that delivers an incredible core and defined abs. Core focused cardio, total body toning and specific core defining exercises will absolutely help you blast the fat off of your belly.

The core is a group of muscles just like any other area in your body, and you must train them if you want them to improve with better strength, tone, endurance and flexibility.

Here are five core exercises from my "Blast the Belly Fat" DVD that will help you create a strong, toned & flexible core. Do them in a circuit format and repeat them three to five times for an incredible core-focused total body workout.

These moves are intermediate to advanced and they are guaranteed to deliver results. If you are a beginner, make sure you do the movements at your own pace and your own range of motion. The more you practice, the better results you will get. Allow yourself to be a beginner and your form and technique will improve each time you do this circuit.

1) Cross Jacks: This is a core focused total body cardio move that will help you increase your calorie burn and tone the abs.

2) Mountain Climbers to Cross Rotation: This is a core-focused cardio move (mountain climber) followed by a core-focused total body toning move (cross torso rotation). This combination will increase your calorie burn and help you tone the entire body with an extra focus on the abs.

3) Plank Walk-Ups: This a combination of core-focused cardio and total body toning move. By using the entire body you will keep the calories burning while toning the entire body, including the abs.

4) Stationary Lunge With Rotation: This is another total body toning move, and by adding a basic rotation we increased the use of the core muscles, helping you create more definition in the abs.



5) Leg Reach With Rotation: This is a specific core-defining exercise that recruits the transverse abdominus (a muscle that wraps around your stomach like a belt, acting like a corset pulling in your lower belly and supporting your lower back), rectus abdominus (the "six-pack") and the obliques. To modify this movement, all you have to do is bend your knees. Do the range of motion that you can achieve and each time you practice you will get better and better!

For more amazing core-focused exercises you can check out Jeanette's Blast the Belly Fat DVD.

 
 
 

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10:45 PM on 08/23/2011
Any one have any info on how to loose baby belly fat...it's been 3yrs!!! & I've tried everything that I know of....
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08:44 AM on 08/13/2011
First, I truly appreciate anything that stirs people to move and get healthier. It's a passion for me. That being said...

I didn't watch all the videos so apologies in advance if the info is there, but, I know most of these moves already. I wish more fitness experts would post alternative options to the exercises that are simply impossible for people with knee injuries. I cannot do unsupported deep lunges. I can't do burpees or mountain climbers. I can and do continue to workout, but some of these are simply impossible with knee damage and pain.

I did watch the cross jacks movie - that kind of workout is partly what damaged my knees back in the 80's with all those aerobic dance classes. I can't believe high impact workouts are still being emphasized.

Alternatives please!!!
11:38 AM on 08/14/2011
Deep-water aerobics.
10:24 PM on 08/12/2011
Thank you, I plan to start next!!

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11:42 AM on 08/12/2011
i have always had belly fat. but i have been trying to lose it since i have kids.i wounder if those workouts really work . if they do someone please let me know.
05:40 PM on 09/21/2011
I think the exercises they mention are good but from my research, it takes more than just exercise to reduce belly fat. Changes in diet are very important. http://www.perspectivestv.com
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10:53 AM on 08/12/2011
Great idea.
08:59 AM on 08/12/2011
i think if you want to lose weight at home and at any time, my advice is to get a jump rope. it may sound childish but it can help you lose weight easily and get you more toned~

but there is no real thing such as loosing weight at a certain area, since when you sweat, you sweat all over. your body produces energy from cholesterol and when you get too much of that, the remaining ones turn into fat as storage for extra energy. to loose weight you exercise since when you do, your body would need more energy to process and by eating less food with cholesterol your body will use the remaining fat as energy instead. and when you swear, you loose the water and unwanted toxins from your body which means you get lighter and healthier. Goodluck!
10:24 PM on 08/10/2011
Great I love new Abbs work outs
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HerrMonk
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07:38 PM on 08/10/2011
Targeted fat loss is a myth.

Here are five REAL moves to blast fat:

1) Put down the sugar drink (Juice, Soda, Mocha-whatever)
2) Put down the bread
3)Stop eating out
4)Stop boxing food that comes in a box
5)Pickup a gallon of water and suck on that all day... when it's empty fill it back up.
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08:45 AM on 08/13/2011
I actually agree with your first line - and sort of the rest, except I don't think diet is all there is to good health and long term weight loss. But I think targeted loss is a myth.

Read a long time ago that fat is like snow - takes longer to melt where it's deeper.
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HerrMonk
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06:18 PM on 08/15/2011
I don't think weight loss = health at all.

Exercise is essential for health, and when taking a holistic view, I'd never suggest otherwise.

On the other hand, if we are just talking about getting someone who is already relatively lean and fit visible abs, it's going to be diet that gets them there.

And of course, genetics will be another factor. I was just working with a guy who had a full-on six pack, but elsewhere on his body would show caliper readings in the high teens. Lucky guy.
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07:21 PM on 08/10/2011
Does this muumuu make me look fat?
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HST
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05:25 PM on 08/10/2011
I've tried training my core, but I have a problem with my abs cramping every time I do crunches.

So painful I can't straighten up and I'm not doing that many crunches...
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04:11 AM on 08/11/2011
May I suggest ? Try doing your crunches on an exercise ball....helped me
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HST
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03:42 PM on 08/11/2011
Thanks, I'll give it a try.
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01:00 PM on 08/10/2011
Great stuff. It should be noted that developing one's core muscle group does not necessarily result in flat washboard abs, especially as we age. Often we who developed one part of that core more than others (singers in particular) develop a firm bulge or shelf just below the ribs. This looks "fat" i.e., it protrudes at the top of the abs. Once the rest are developed, the entire abs region is "fat" looking and is not always defined, but is hard as a rock when clenched and pliable and flexible. Still healthier than being fat per se. People should learn that the human body does not have one singular end-result or "look" that is healthy.

Current BMI tables are flawed and can be counter productive too... they were invented by life insurance corporations back in the 1940s and have little to do with medicine or science. Show a group of MDs 145 lb 5'-6" man and 9 out of 10 MDs will find an irresistible urge to help the poor dude get some healthy weight on his bones. Show the same guy to insurers and they'll deem him borderline healthy-pushing overweight. Show these two groups a 170lb 5'-6" guy of rock solid muscle, the docs will wonder why you're wasting their time and the insurance guys will be screaming about obesity out of control.
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12:23 PM on 08/10/2011
I have been working on my biceps all week. Lots of 40 ounce curls. Feel the PUMP Baby !!!
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hayness
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12:09 PM on 08/10/2011
You know what would be really great and helpful? Have some people demonstrate the moves who are not already fit and toned. It's very different for someone who weighs 200+ pounds to do these moves.
01:36 PM on 08/10/2011
tweak the moves a little bit until you are comfortable to do them the way they are demonstrated....we all have to start somewhere...these women weren't always fit as a fiddle. :)
12:40 PM on 08/12/2011
Definitely! I agree! Start simple and build it up gradually so you don't lose it too soon :)
10:14 AM on 08/10/2011
The author generalizes/claims/implies that core exercise disproportionally impacts weight loss in midsection and nothing could be further from the truth. The rate of weight loss in your core does not relate to any one particular exercise. Individuals will loose weight the most weight in the area where they originally gained it the most. In other words, if you gain the most weight in your thighs, you will loose the most weight in your thighs regardless of your form of exercise. This is common sense.
01:28 PM on 08/10/2011
Ok these are five good exercises. But its only one small part of staying lean. Its your diet, cardio vascular work outs (you need to sweat), weight/resistance training (done with proper form), core stablization work, and proper sleep and rest.

So many people out there want that magic one bullett, everything from a certain diet to just doing certain exercises. But the blunt truth that as you begin your 30s and age from there staying lean becomes more and more difficult and it takes an overall program with a high degree of motivation to keep that body that you had at age 28.
02:56 PM on 08/10/2011
Contrary to popular opinion, sweat has nothing to do with real weight loss. Having said that, sweating is to weight loss much in the same way amputation is like weight loss.
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12:00 PM on 08/12/2011
When I was body building (over 20 hears ago) the cardio workout was done prior to any weight bearing exercise. My trainer informed me that one of the purposes of cardio was to improve my cardiovascular system and hit my target heart rate. Sweat really had very little to do with getting my hear-rate up. I love it that cardio helped provide more oxygen flow which improved and expanded lung capacity as well as conditions the musculoskeletal. I was able to do a longer weight bearing working by proceeding my workout with sustained heart-rate focused cardio. As sobe123 mentioned, the motivation to keep in shape as we age is key and harder than when one has more energy and younger.

Part of my issues is I have had a bout of major health problems which now limit my ability to do the major exercises that kept me slim in the past. Also, after a certain time in a woman's life, the hormones take over and reek havoc on the fat distribution. It now takes 4 times more effort to get the 1 time effort it used to take to get the weight off as I age.
02:16 PM on 08/10/2011
I wish you would tell my thighs this, they don't seem to be listening.