The Best Exercise to Lose Belly Fat

By Brian Paul

Want the best exercise to lose belly fat? Well, how about 3 exercises? Skip the typical ab exercises, like crunches, situps and leg lifts and you cannot help but burn belly fat while performing these high intensity whole body workouts that will boost your metabolism... thus building rock hard abs & core, but also creating a much better fat-burning workout than a typical ab workout.

With this workout, you can lose your belly fat without doing any typical ab exercises like situps and crunches. The format is to perform a mini superset of 3 belly slimming exercises.

The 3 exercises are 1. Renegade Dumbbell Rows 2. Front Squats with Barbell 3. Mountain Climbers on Floor

A good rep scheme to use with this could be 3-4 sets of 8 reps for each exercise, or more sets for less reps, such as 5 sets of 5 reps of each exercise. Instead of counting the number of reps, you can do mountain climbers for say 30 seconds.

Renegade dumbbell rows

Start in a pushup position with the hands on 2 dumbbells. Row with one arm holding a dumbbell while stabilizing your body with the one on the floor. After you bring the dumbbell back to the ground, stabilize your body with that arm while lifting the other arm in a rowing motion. You have to use all your abdominals to stabilize your body during the rowing motion. Trust me on this... your abs will get a real good workout!

Front squats

These are similar to back squats, however with the barbell in front of your body on the front of your shoulders instead of resting on the upper back as in back squats. Hold the barbell on the front of your shoulders, with your right knuckles pressing into your left shoulder and your left knuckles into your right shoulder, while keeping your elbows pointing away from your body.

You may not get the form right immediately, but with practice and some help from a trainer, you will get it right. You wil really have to use your abs to stabilize your body during front squats. This looks like just a leg workout, but your abs will get a big workout too!

Mountain climbers

Start in a pushup position and then shuffling your feet in and out so that your knees are moving in under your chest and then back out to starting position. It is kind of like climbing a mountain, but you are on a flat floor. For a more intense version, move your hands back and forth about 8-10 inches while you are doing the leg movements. Compared to standard mountain climbers, these are more difficult, and will work your whole body.

Let your body recover for about 30 seconds between each exercise. After each superset, rest about 1-2 minutes.

Your abs will get a great workout and you won't be doing any direct ab exercises. I am confident you will see what I mean after you give it a try! - 17268

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