Sunday, February 1, 2009

How To Melt Your Belly Fat

By Jose Loni

How to melt your belly fat? That is the question we all want to know. We have some suggestions that will help you melt your belly fat. We should focus on increasing the intensity of the physical activity, monitoring your diet, incorporating resistance training and decreasing stress levels.

During an exercise session, try to increase your heart rate while doing the activity. You can figure out your target heart rate range, then while exercising try to keep your heart rate within that target range. Monitoring your heart rate will enable you to optimize the exercise session and burn calories with greater effect.

Activities such as biking, running, brisk walking or swimming can all be effective in burning calories and melt belly fat in just a few weeks of regular exercise.

Eating smart is another way to help our body to reduce and melt belly fat. Cut out all the fat and sugar from your diet and increase the number of meals you eat throughout the day. Eating foods that are lean in protein and complex carbohydrates will help us burn those as fuel and not store them as fat.

Training with resistance not only sculpts and builds muscle, it also helps increase our overall metabolism. When we increase our metabolism, we also increase our fat burning capacity. By increase our muscle mass, we also increase the metabolic activity of the muscles, which increases fat burning.

Decreasing our stress level helps to eliminate excess fat storage in the belly. Stress releases Cortisol, a hormone that causes the body to store fat in the belly to be utilized as a fuel in an emergency situation.

Simple ways to help reduce stress are deep breathing, yoga, tai chi and meditation. These activities have shown to decrease overall stress and allow us to manage stress better.

The easy method to melt belly fat is changing our exercise program to increase our heart rate, watching our diet, resistance training exercises and lowering our stress. Understanding these methods will help you melt your belly fat. - 16650

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