Saturday, 15 January 2011

5 Reasons Why your Struggling to Lose Tummy Fat

So your on the diet and your going to gym 5 times a week but you still can’t seem to lose your tummy fat. What is going on? Here are 5 reasons that may shed some light onto this frustrating dilemma.

1 - You only do cardio training

Cardio is for burning fat and weights are for building muscle. That’s the simple and flawed premise upon which countless men and women have built their exercise regimes. The fact is that weight training is an important element of any fat-loss plan.

Firstly just weight training on its own can burn over 400 calories per hour plus it elevates your resting metabolic rate (RMR) for hours long after you have finished training. (To explain quickly your RMR is basically the number of calories that your body burns when you’re sat on your sofa watching TV.)

On top of that, any weight-loss eating plan means you will lose muscle as well as fat. If you’re lifting weights to gain muscle, a greater proportion of your weight loss will come from fat. Weigh

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