Most Effective Fat Burning Workouts to Get Rid of Belly Fat

The best fat burning workouts if you want to get rid of the nasty belly fat that’s been bugging you for years is a workout that consists of moves that involve all the major muscle groups in the body.

Forget about concentration moves and forget about doing a million repetitions also. While we are in the subject of doing a million repetitions, forget about the “common sense” advice that tells you: “do more cardio”. That is the surest way to guarantee that you are doing an ineffective fat burning workout.

So what exactly are moves that involve all the major muscle groups? These are exercises that include squats, lunges, chin ups or pull ups. Push ups or Chest Presses. What these all have in common is that your body needs to engage more muscle groups to perform these properly, by recruiting more muscle fibers you get a higher energy demand, therefore burning more calories. By increasing muscle activity and therefore, muscle production, you will in turn elevate your metabolic rate which means that you will be spending higher number of calories during the day and in turn burning more fat.

If you just joined a gym and one of the trainers that are in staff gives you a training program with exercises like barbell curls, calf raises, leg curls and crunches, just to name a few, my advice is to run away fast!

Don’t get me wrong, barbell curls and calf raises and whatever other isolation exercises have a time and a place, but it sure is not in a fat burning workout because they only work a very small muscle group at a time. Once you advance in your fat burning workout and have made some progress then you start adding other types of exercises. You should never do the same workout for more than 4 to 5 weeks because your body will get use to the demand that you are putting to it and it will adapt and you will hit a plateau. Always change your workout and always, always, always try to improve from your previous workout. It does not have to be a new record every time. You can accomplish this by adding more reps, adding more weight, reducing the rest period between exercises, increase the intensity of the workout (this means, do it in less time than before) or all of them combined. It is up to you and it depends on your overall fitness level.

So you can begin with combination of squats and chest presses. Performed back to back without rest. These are non competing muscle groups. What that means is they work different muscle groups and while you be tired from the squats, your chest muscles can perform the exercise. Then you can do rows combined with incline press and finish with inverted body rows combined with planks. For more advanced options you can perform body rows with legs on the ball or planks with arms on the ball, etc. Variations are endless and they depend on your fitness level.