Lose Excess Belly Fat - The 3 Mistakes You Just Can't Make

By: Steve Faber

Excess belly fat can keep you off the beach, but worse, it can
be plain unhealthy. If you have a long, thin lean body type,
you're what's called an ectomorph. You have problems gaining
muscle, but being skinny, doesn't mean you can't have some
excess body fat. With the ectmorphic body type you can get what
some call a "heart attack body". If you have a heart attack
body, you'll have excess fat on your belly and sides, but be
relatively lean everywhere else.

You can lose the excess belly fat, get a nice set of abs, and
improve your overall health at the same time, but there are some
fat burning mistakes you must avoid in the process.

Belly Fat Loss Mistake #1 - Trying to spot reduce. You can't
reduce fat in one location, no matter how convenient that might
be. Instead, you must adopt a strategy to burn fat throughout
your body. In the process, you'll lose that excess belly fat. In
that vein, don't lose sight of your fat loss goal and waste time
with endless ab work. Ab work definitely has its place. However,
that place is the development of your abdominal muscles, not fat
loss. After you've lost the fat, you'll be able to see those
muscles, but you've got to lose the excess fat first.

Belly Fat Loss Mistake #2 - Working out incorrectly, for too
long. It's true - you can work out too much. For optimum fat
loss effectiveness, you should be doing your cardio in the
morning, on an empty stomach. You should do relatively high
intensity cardio for about 25 - 30 minutes, no more. It's
ironic, many people will find this too difficult, but will think
nothing of spending 45 minutes on the bike or an hour in
kickboxing aerobics.

Belly Fat Loss Mistake #3 - Trying to do it all with cardio.
It's one of the most common misconceptions in the fitness world;
Cardio for fat loss, weights for size. Wrong, wrong, wrong. One
of the most effective fat loss strategies is to elevate your
basil metabolic rate. That makes your body burn more calories
throughout the day no matter your level of activity. One of the
most effective ways to elevate your basil metabolic rate, and
keep it up, is to build lean body mass using weight training.
Not only will you burn calories while you are training, you'll
burn many mre throughout the day.

Remember, you need to burn 3,500 excess calories to lose one
pound of fat. You just can't do that with a great cardio
session. As an example, a 200lb man would have to string
together 14 consecutive miles at an 8-1/2 minute/mile pace to
burn 3,500 calories. Obviously, few people take their training
sessions to that extreme. It's far more effective to train with
weights to raise the basil metabolic rate.

You can lose that excess belly fat. As an added bonus, you'll
also rid yourself of other body fat and pick up that healthy,
lean body you're after.

About the author:
It's tough losing that last stubborn bit of excess belly fat. It
may not be as hard as you think, you just have ot know what to
do. Much of what you've been told is just plain wrong. You need
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