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Aug 26
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Are you trying to lose belly fat but no matter how much you exercise, the waistline just doesn’t trim down and you can’t get that flatter belly? Is losing weight hard for you that you are struggling to force yourself to exercise? Or are you in a situation where the more you do, the more it seems that you are further away from your goal of a slim and lead body with killer abs?
If you said yes to any of the above, chances are that you are not exercising effectively in the correct frequency and duration to optimize fat burning and abs building. The timing, intensity and the type of workout are often the most important aspects (first being your diet) of losing belly fat and to have stunning looking abs. Two main reasons are:
1) Over-exercising and
2) Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR)
Over-exercising
A large number of people believe that you must work out every day or at least 5-6 days per week to build a lean ripped physique. For most people, training that frequent usually lead to over exercising / over training. It is true that your body needs stimulation (exercising) in order to build muscle and lose body fat. However, your body also needs sufficient rest to recover from that exercise so as to prevent degeneration or muscle damage. So training everyday seldom gives most people’s bodies much time to rebuild and get ready for the next training session. On the other hand working out one day per week is doing a little more than a sedentary individual.
The duration of each training session also plays a vital role in muscle building and fat burning. A long duration often have a reverse effect leading to smaller muscle mass. One example would be that of professional marathon runners, it is quite rare to see a well build long distance marathon runner and most of the time we would be looking at skinny individuals. Because marathon runners often have very long duration training sessions, their body would be in a different state that doesn’t encourage muscle building.
Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR)
One of the most important yet over looked aspects of obtaining low body fat levels is your RMR. Your RMR accounts for roughly 60-70% of the calories you expend on a daily basis while your activities account for approximately 20-30%. So you need to pick exercises that keep your RMR as high as possible.
Many people with excessive body fat falsely believe that they have been cursed with a slow metabolism and that is the caused for their failed attempts at losing body fat. While it is true that everyone’s resting metabolic rate will vary depending on their genes, this doesn’t mean that those with seemingly “slower” metabolic rates are are doomed to being overweight. There are many ways to increase your RMR, picking the right exercises is a critical factor.
Flatter Belly Exercises Optimal Intensity, Duration and Type?
If you want to exercise and lose that stubborn belly fat, you got to pay attention to this. So, what is an optimal training frequency for most people to obtain the best result? There’s not one single answer since everyone is different. It also depends on how you structure your sessions. However, most people respond best to training 3-4 days per week. That allows sufficient training stimuli to force your body to adapt, yet it also allows sufficient rest to prevent you from getting “burned out” or overtraining.
As for the duration of your individual training sessions, once again many people falsely believe that they must train for 2-3 hours each day in order to get lean. Most individual would get better result by making their workout shorter yet more intense. A good rule of thumb is to keep your workouts between 45-60 minutes. Studies have shown that training sessions exceeding one hour promote higher levels of the catabolic hormone cortisol which can lead to excessive muscle protein break down.
If your result comes to a halt, you could try a super high intensity 20 minute workout performed 4-5 times per week or even a super high intensity 5 minute workouts 3 times per week with 45 minute workouts done 2 days per week.
Hopefully at the end of this article you have a good idea on the frequency and duration for flatter belly exercises. I would be covering the type of exercises in a separate article as this is getting quite long.
Have a fun journey to lose your belly fat and get that awesome looking abs! Flatter belly exercises would be a great place to start. Also any comments that you have would be greatly appreciate, i am always seeking feedbacks to see how I can contribute more to the community. If you like, do share this site and the article to people that you feel would benefit from this.
Stay frosty,
Johnson 
