Abdominal Exercise
What is the best way to lose abdominal fat, exercise or diet?
I am a lean and healthy 18 year old. I have no fat on my body except for on my lower stomach. While the easiest answer is do everything. What is more effective to weight loss, burning 500 calories a day with elliptical, bike etc, or eating 500 less calories a day (less saturated fats, more whole grain etc.) ?
Thanks
Hi Felix
Reducing your calories by 500 a day is not the best way to lose abdominal fat. All this will do is to slow down your metabolism, which will mean less calories being burned.
You need to burn calories through exercise, but it also depends on which exercises you use, some can burn calories more effectively than others.
Instead of spending an hour or so of doing cardio, start doing interval training, which is harder but less time consuming. Also you can get really good results.
What is interval training?
Say you are using a bike, instead of just riding it for an hout, you ride at a slow pace for a couple of minutes and then you speed up as fast as you can go for 30 - 60 seconds. Then you go back to the slower pace for a couple of minutes to catch your breath, you then speed up again.
Just keep repeating this for 15-25 minutes. This can really help you to burn a lot of calories, in a lot shorter time. Interval training is regarded by many as the best way to burn abdominal fat, so give it a go.
If you would like to know which other effective methods you could use, take a look at the resource below. Hope this has helped.
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