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What is the simplest way of burning fat?

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I have been thinking on yoga. But from what I heard, yoga doesn’t help much in burning fat. 

Is it really helpful to eat breakfast to burn calories?

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Yoga is great for flexability and it does build strength and burn fat. But the fastest way I know of to lose weight and stay healthy is Body Building and Nutrition. It works without equipment.
If you want to lose weight, Don’t Use Diet Pills. 
They are bad for you. Most of them are just a scam or they are addictive. Counting calories is a pain in the butt.  It will drive you nuts. But, losing weight is simple. You just have to do the right things. 
 Fad diets sometimes work but, you can be sure that at least 25% of the weight you lose will be muscle. Then when you stop the diet you will gain back all of the weight you lost but no muscle. So, you will have 25% more fat than you did before! Fad diets just
aren’t worth the bother. 
 Fasting or skipping meals will teach your body that famine is about to happen and your body will begin to store more fat to get you through the next period when food is not available. 
 Here’s a simple trick that can help you lose weight without doing anything else. Drink a litre of water as soon as you wake up in the morning and then drink two more throughout the day. You’ll notice a difference the first month. 
 Here’s a better way. For every pound of muscle that you add your body will burn 3000 calories (1lb) of fat every day. That means that just by having an extra pound of muscle on your body you will burn a pound of fat every day! So, add muscle! 
 This is the fastest way to add a pound of muscle. Squats and Pushups! You do them on alternate days; squats one day, pushups the next. And you do them SuperSlow style. That is, you do the easy part twice as slow as the hard part. That way you fatigue the muscles quickly. Then you rest the muscles for 48
hours which gives the body a chance to make new muscles.
Squats should be done with a wide stance and all the way to the floor. Pushups the with palms shoulder width apart and all the way to the floor, then all the way up. Use the full range of motion of the muscle group you are trying to develop.
The idea is to tire the muscles out completely so do a set of squats until you can’t do another, then rest for a couple of minutes and do it again. Do that 3 times and you’re done for the day. The following day, don’t do squats but do pushups. Do them the same way,
go down twice as slow as you come up. 
 You will lose weight fast, unless you add more junk food and fat to your diet. Instead, eat at least 5 to 7 different raw vegetables and fruits every day. Cut out anything that comes in a bag or package. Cut out all processed foods, soft drinks and sweets. Eat more grains and less red meat. Check out the Food Pyramid.
 If you really want to give your body the best
possible chance to be healthy and fat free, go to infinity2.com and order their weight loss formula and Essentials for Life. That will give you all the vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and probiotics that your body needs and will keep you feeling better and healthier. They also have a Proteabolic Mass Formula for serious athlete who want to build muscle mass quickly and safely. 
 Weight loss without exercise is not good. You need to eat healthy, exercise and get your rest. You will feel better, look better and be healthier. Try it for a week. You will notice a difference. You will feel better and that will motivate you to continue. 
 Losing weight only in specific areas of the body is impossible.  You can’t just lose weight around the belly, for instance. 
 If you want tight, rippled abs, do crunches and leg raises every other day the way I described above. 
Good luck!

How to lose belly fat

Exercises To Lose Belly Fat

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Belly fat is the most obstinate fat that can be shed with a structured exercise regime. Lack of physical activity combined with our sedentary jobs can be cited as the major cause for belly fat. Not only does belly fat look ugly, but it is also the cause for weight gain, obesity and its related diseases like diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Exercise is the magic cure for losing belly fat. When combined with the right diet, you can definitely flaunt your flat tummy. With any form of exercise for achieving weight loss helps to lose belly fat too; it is essential that you perform specific exercises that help you to lose belly fat.

Here we list some of the exercises that effectively help to lose the belly fat.

Abdominal Exercises

Belly fat is the fat accumulation in the abdominal region. Hence exercises that target the entire abdominal muscles are effective in losing belly fat. Such exercises give a total workout to the belly region, involving the upper abdominal muscles, lower abdominal muscles as well as the obliques, helping you to have a flat tummy. Such exercises can be performed both by men as well as women. While women can feel great with a surfboard tummy and be comfortable in any type of dress, men can flaunt well defined six pack abs with the effective toning of the ab muscles. The advantage with abdominal exercises is that you do not need major exercise equipment and these exercises can be performed right in the privacy and comforts of your home.

At the most, you can probably invest in an exercise ball to provide you the resistance. Some of the abdominal exercises are abdominal crunches, reverse crunches, bicycle crunches, leg lifts, captain’s chair, squats, pelvic lifts and tilts, flutter kicks, reverse curls, vertical leg crunch, Russian twist, windshield wipers, v-ins and v-ups.

Cardio Exercises

Cardio exercises have become a popular way of losing belly fat. When you perform cardio exercises, your heart rate increases along with your breathing rate. This results in an increased metabolism. The increase in metabolism helps to burn fat faster. Thus, people opt for cardio exercises in their quest to lose belly fat. Your regular activities like walking, jogging, running, cycling, swimming, aerobics, skipping, stair climbing are forms of cardio. The flexibility with which cardio exercises can be interspersed into any exercise regime makes it more popular with fitness enthusiasts.

Cardio exercises can be performed both by men and women of all age groups. If you have medical problems or have suffered a heart attack, ensure that you keep the intensity low, so as to not overstress. HIIT, High Intensity Interval Training is a form of workout that combines cardio and interval training. In this form of workout, highly intense cardio exercises are performed in short bursts at intervals. Such workouts have been proved to be very effective in getting rid of belly fat.

Strength Training

At the very mention of strength training, all of you would think how exercises undertaken by body builders help in losing belly fat. Well, the fact is strength training helps to build muscle and the more muscle you gain; more energy is needed to facilitate their movement. This energy requirement is sourced from the fats in our body. Thus, increased muscle mass results in more fat burn, thus helping you to lose the stubborn belly fat. While performing strength training, they need to exert themselves only to their endurance levels, lest over exertion leads to injuries. Generally, women tend to stay away from strength training with the wrong presumption that they would bulk up. You can set this myth at rest as women’s physiology does not let the muscles to bulk. So, they can safely undertake strength training for well defined muscles.

Yoga

The ancient form of yoga has many exercises that help to lose belly fat. There are certain asanas or postures in yoga that specifically aim at burning away the belly fat. One can benefit from performing the following asana; Tree pose, downward dog pose, boat pose, bow pose and sun salutation. Deep breathing exercises in yoga like pranayam which induces contractions of the ab muscles while inhaling and exhaling help to tone the abdominal muscles. Yoga is a universal exercise that can be undertaken by all. Yoga helps to unify the body, mind and spirit and thus helps to alleviate stress, which is one of the causes for acquiring belly fat.

Pilates

Pilates is fast gaining popularity as an effective means to reduce belly fat. In fact, the Pilates 100 is the most effective workout for your abs giving them a total workout. Like yoga, anybody can perform Pilates. A newly coined exercise, yogalates combines the positive aspects of both yoga as well as Pilates to help you benefit from both in trying to lose the belly fat.

Resistance Training

While indulging in resistance training, the more resistance you offer, the greater will be the fat burn. When a person stretches to his maximum endurance levels, the muscles are made to work harder to counter the resistance. This overworking of the muscles leads to more energy being consumed, which in turn leads to fat burning. Resistance training can be performed by both men and women using free weights or resistance bands or elastic bands.

Dance

If you chicken out at the very mention of strenuous workouts to lose your obstinate belly fat, here is an easy and enjoyable workout. Dance in any form gives you the necessary workout and helps to lose calories. The leg raises, the twirls and the swaying movements workout your muscles and help to burn away the fat. Dance is equally therapeutic. Various Latin American dance forms like Zumba, Salsa, Hip Hop, Batuka, and Jazzercise are very effective in helping you achieve a flat tummy.

Belly dancing can help you lose 700 calories in an hour. The rhythmic swaying movements help to tone the stomach muscles. Akin to cardio, belly dancing pushes up the heart rate and speeds up your metabolism, helping to burn fat faster.

By following a combination of the above mentioned exercises and following the regime regularly at least over 5 days a week will surely reward you with a flat tummy.

Weight loss diet for man and women

Top 5 best exercises to lose belly fat

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(NaturalNews) Who doesn’t want flat abs? People desperate to lose weight will willingly starve themselves, take expensive supplements or do the latest fad diet that promises to give them that flawless figure in 30 days. Thankfully, belly fat is metabolically active and easier to lose. However, if proper nutrition is not observed and the resort is made to low calorie diets, weight loss may not happen within the desired time frame. Hunger and calorie deprivation will eventually kick in and dieters confronted with that favorite food they have been avoiding will have the tendency to binge at the first opportunity. The likelihood of gaining more weight than they originally lost is not far-fetched.

According to Christine Rosenbloom, a nutrition professor at Georgia State University, eating a calorie-controlled diet and 60 minutes of daily moderate exercise activity will result to weight loss and can even help with the desired weight maintenance. In fact, according to Professor Michael Jensen of the Mayo Clinic, intense aerobic exercise will result to being leaner around the abdomen.

It is important to remember that keeping the body’s metabolism up and running so that the body continuously burns calories prevents it from going into the fat-storing mode that causes unnecessary weight gain.

Why exercise is necessary

Most people involved in weight loss believe that it’s all about the calories. If you burn calories more than you take in, you lose weight. If you take in more calories than you can burn, the body gains fat. While this piece of logic may make sense, it is only partly true. What burns calories nonstop is actually the lean muscle mass underneath body fat that allows more intake of calories without weight gain. Continue reading Top 5 best exercises to lose belly fat →

How to lose belly fat

Exercises To Lose Belly Fat

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The issue of belly fat is rampant especially among men and when men has belly fat or abdominal fat, they lose shape and they no longer look fit and sexy. It is to remove belly fat that the six pack abs came to place. There are many ways that has been opined and suggested by many expert about ways to lose belly fat and I don’t think my own advise would be too many for anyone to brush aside.

Let me give you the common misconception that has gone round about losing abdominal fat. Many have been told to go on alow calorie diet and that they did. But as time goes and tghey see no definite change in their belly fat,the urge to go back to their formal diet set in and when they do, they tend to eat even more than they do before because of the starvation they had gone through. They also end up eating a lot of junk foods they didn’t eat as much even before going on the low calorie diet.

For some, they think that if the eat food will lesser amount of calories, they will lose weight.This is based on the belief that if you eat more calories than your body can burn,you gain weight, so it is best they eat low amount of calorie the body can burn and used up.You need to knwo that this is partly true.It is not just about the amount of calorie you take that determine how much of weight you gain or lose.

The human body is made in such a way that there is lean mass of muscle lying under every fat in our body.It is lean muscle mass that makes calories burn non stop so that even when you eat much calorie giving food,you will not gain weight.

Why exercise is necessary

Most people involved in weight loss believe that it’s all about the calories. If you burn calories more than you take in, you lose weight. If you take in more calories than you can burn, the body gains fat. While this piece of logic may make sense, it is only partly true. What burns calories nonstop is actually the lean muscle mass underneath body fat that allows more intake of calories without weight gain.

The body actually adapts to the changes it undergoes. Losing weight without exercising increases the risk of losing lean body mass, slowing the metabolism and putting the body into fat-storing mode. People who have lost body fat and muscle mass may notice that they don’t have the muscle mass they once had. Worse yet, once they overeat even a little bit, they start filling up on body fat once again.
If you plan or go about losing weight without exercising, the risk is that you lose lean body mass.This will slow down the metabolic rate of the body and put the body in fat storing mode.If you lose body fat and muscle mass at the same time,what happen is that the muscle mass you once have will be gone and when you overeat a little bit,the tend to gain more fat easily.

Below are top 5 best exercises that experts has suggested would help lose belly fat. Continue reading Exercises To Lose Belly Fat →