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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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!!!
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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!
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.
Read a long time ago that fat is like snow - takes longer to melt where it's deeper.
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.
So painful I can't straighten up and I'm not doing that many crunches...
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.
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.
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.