One of the most common questions my clients ask me is:  What is the best ab work out to lose belly fat?  The answer that most people don’t want to hear is that most ab work outs will not help you actually lose your mid-section body fat.  Work outs targeting just your abs will help you tone your abdominal muscles.  However, it will not help eliminate the fat in that area.

 Unfortunately, fat tends to go more to the belly. Especially as we get older.  It is also the worst fat to have since it surrounds your organs.  It causes stress to your organs and can gradually damage them.  So, it is really important to keep off the belly fat, but if doing 1,000 crunches a night won’t get rid of your belly fat than what will?

 Here are your best options:

 1.  Muscle burns fat.  So you need to target bigger muscle groups.  Target leg, chest and back muscles.  Strengthening these muscles will actually help you burn more fat and lose inches around the middle.

 2.  Interval training.  This is doing cardio at two different speeds for about 30 minutes.  The best interval training is to run at a fast speed for about 2 – 3 minutes and then walk for 2 minutes.  Of course make sure you warm up for 5 – 10 minutes prior to doing this.  The slower speed burns fat and the faster speed burns carbohydrates.  So you are losing the fat that is already there and the carbohydrates that are waiting to turn into fat.

 3.  Cut down on your carbohydrates.  We need carbohydrates for energy, so completely eliminating them is not the best thing to do.  However, whatever carbs we take in and do not use for energy our bodies will store away for later use and convert to fat.  This will add to those unwanted inches on the belly!

 Try these few things and you should notice that the inches start disappearing around your middle.  Keep at it and you will have a flatter stomach in no time!