Saturday, December 20, 2008

Burn Belly Fat Faster

By Jose Loni

Exercises to burn belly fat help to increase strength and overall fat burning, but there are two other factors that need to be considered as exercises for belly fat burning as well. Those are our diet, what we eat and how often we eat, and the other is the management of our stress levels.

Belly fat burning exercises are complemented by the quality and quantity of the food we take in. There should be an avoidance of processed foods, cookies, fast food and sodas. Throughout the day, we should increase the frequency of our meals to 5-6 times per day, eating meals that are balanced in all components of the basic food groups. When we control the amount of food we eat, we can optimize our workouts and allow our bodies to utilize and burn fat to achieve that flat stomach.

Burning belly fat, our energy expenditure needs to be greater than our total food intake. So by increasing our physical activity, we promote building muscles used for that activity. For example: running will build the muscles of the legs. By increasing our muscle strength, we are also increasing our lean body mass, which also makes our bodies burn fat to help fuel the increased activities that we are doing.

In addition, there is increased the metabolic activity occurring in those muscles, those processes also burn the fat on our belly to help fuel the activity we are doing. The great thing about increasing our metabolism is, our bodies will become proficient at burning fat as an energy source and burn fat even when we are not actively exercising.

Stress is also a major component that affects fat storage in the belly. When we are in a stressful situation, our bodies view the stress as an "emergency situation" and will release a hormone called Cortisol, which tells our bodies to hold onto fat and store it in our bellies.

Fat accumulation in the stomach area increases the risk of developing high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke and diabetes.

Belly fat burning exercises in addition to diet and stress management will definitely help kick start your system and burn the fat from the belly region. In doing so the results will be longer lasting and more permanent.

Burning belly fat is not complicated. It just takes some discipline to commit to making changes in our physical activity, diet and stress management. By doing a little bit every other day, you can achieve the results you want and burn that belly fat permanently. - 15255

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