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You Will Lose Belly Fat But Not With An Ab Exercise Machine

May 21, 2009 by Alicia Brooks  
Filed under Diet

Have you seen thousands of ads for ab exerciser machines like I have? If you watch television I’m sure the answer to that question is yes. They are hard to avoid.

These ads give the false impression that you will lose your belly fat by doing abdominal exercises using one of their machines. The truth is that’s just not how things work. Sure, you may gain some muscle in your midsection with this approach but you will not burn belly fat.

The body does not work like this. It is impossible to target fat in a particular part of the body by exercising that part of the body. Our bodies hold onto additional fat in a particular part of the body (such as the midsection) due to our genes and our genes can’t be changed.

Building more ab muscle is not what your goal should be if you want to achieve an awesome looking midsection. Most people really have plenty of ab muscle. The problem is most people also have too much flab covering those ab muscles.

So what you need to do is burn off the excess fat covering your midsection with a dieting plan that is designed to boost the metabolism so that you burn fat faster. A great way of doing that is with a diet that includes a regular “day off” from dieting each week.

The Day Off Diet is the easy choice for an online diet plan which boosts the metabolism for burning fat fast. Not only does it burn fat faster than other diets, it’s also very easy to follow and stick with.

Certainly your money, your time, and your energy will be much better spent on starting The Day Off Diet than it would be by buying some useless ab exercise machine that’s advertised relentlessly on television.

That is not to say that you shouldn’t exercise. It’s just that exercise alone won’t get the job done. And you need to make sure you aren’t doing just cardio. Include real heavy strength training as a part of your routine for far better results.

You can get far more results with heavy strength training for two 30 minute sessions a week than you can with six one hour low impact sessions.

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