In 3 Easy Steps, You Can Lose Stubborn Belly Fat:

 

In 3 Easy Steps, You Can Lose Stubborn Belly Fat:

So you've decided to do what it takes to lose that stubborn belly fat, and I'm here to assist. First, let's figure out how long it'll take you. To accomplish so, identify which of these six pictures best depicts your current body fat percentage and where you are right now.

 Now, in order to successfully strip off that stubborn belly fat, you'll need to get down to around 20% body fat or lower. Using what we know is the optimal rate of fat loss to aim for, we can get a rough estimate of how long this process will take you based on where you are now and assuming that you stick to the right approach week after week.

Now, for many of you, this may come as a surprise and will most likely take much longer than you expected because most of us, including me, obviously want to lose that stubborn belly fat as soon as possible, but what most people are unaware of is that belly fat has a physiological catch that explains why it's so difficult to lose when compared to other areas and explains why, despite your efforts, you may not be seeing any actual improvement in your belly fat. The first and most important reason is that, when compared to other areas of your body, stubborn areas like your belly fat actually contain a greater amount of a certain type of fat cell that is very resistant to mobilisation.

Second, the subcutaneous fat covering your abdominal area received significantly less blood flow than other parts of your body, making things more difficult because the less blood flow an area of your body receives, the more difficult it is to mobilise and burn off fat from that area, and these two factors combine to make things more difficult.

Why is it so difficult to lose belly fat, and why do some areas of your body, such as your face, chest, and arms, tone up quickly while others, such as your belly fat, remain unchanged? The good news is that losing belly fat is not impossible; it's just that most people mess up the process before fat loss can even reach that region.

But today I'll clear it all up for you with a three-step that you can use to both lose that stubborn belly fat for good and potentially speed up the process of losing fat from that region. The first step is something that most of you are probably already familiar with, but it's by far the most important step because in order to lose fat from anywhere you need to be in a calorie deficit and your belly fat is no different because it's governed by the same principle and there's no break in the law of physics here, so to start, you should be eating at a calorie deficit and combining this with regular weightlifting for the best results.

The second stage is to mobilise your belly fat so you can start losing fat from that area. The only way to achieve this, and where most people fail, is to stick to step one, a calorie deficit, for long enough until fat loss begins. Remember, your body will prioritise losing fat in other areas like your chest, arms, and face before it eventually moves on to your belly fat because these other areas are much easier for your body to burn off and use for energy. Unfortunately, most people will implement step 1 but then after a month or two, they'll stop.

As a result, they have had to try a new diet or just quit altogether because it doesn't seem to be working for them, but the reality is that they haven't stuck to the plan long enough for the fat loss to even have a chance of reaching their belly fat in the first place. For example, John here, who is a member of one of my build science programmes, as you can see, he was able to successfully lean down and strip off a lot of his initial belly fat, but let's take a closer look at his start and his month 2 photo for example, so imagine if you were to look at these two photos of yourself after two months, you would probably save yourself that your belly fat hasn't really changed a whole lot.

Although there may not have been much change in John's belly fat, if you look closely at other areas such as his chest, arms, and face, you can clearly see fat loss occurring in those areas, and by John refusing to quit and instead focusing on other areas such as his chest, arms, and face, you can clearly see fat loss occurring in those areas, and by John refusing to quit and instead focusing on other areas such as his chest, arms, and face, you can clearly see fat loss occurring in those areas.

Instead of sticking to his plan just a little longer, he was finally able to see more and more fat loss from his belly, but how did he quit two months in? Based on what he saw, he would never have given his body the chance to eventually mobilise more and more resistant belly fat from his abdomen.

As a result, you must maintain a calorie deficit long enough for your body to remove enough fat from other areas, forcing it to rely more on burning belly fat for fuel. What's more interesting is that multiple studies have shown that there appears to be an inverse relationship between your body fat percentage and your belly fat percentage. As you lose weight and get leaner, your body will start redirecting more blood flow to your belly fat so that I can start prioritising and using it for energy, which is yet another reason why you should stick with that calorie deficit for as long as possible, because the process of you losing belly fat will naturally speed up as your body begins to prioritise that area more.

Despite the fact that belly fat is so stubborn, there are a few things you can do to help speed up the process. First, make sure you're doing ABS exercises on a regular basis and getting stronger with them over time. While we know from research that this won't directly reduce belly fat, it can help you build up your core strength.

In theory, this means you wouldn't have to get as lean to get your six-pack to really pop through that belly fat the way you wanted to, so what I'd recommend is simply incorporating various weighted ABS exercises into your weekly routine and overloading them with the weight over time, just like any other muscle, to grow them, and I do have a video on this which I'm just finishing up.

What you can do is exercise the muscles surrounding that specific region to increase blood flow there, then follow up with low-intensity cardio that primarily uses fat for fuel to burn off the fat that's been mobilised from that area. They put this theory to the test by having two groups perform either an upper body or lower body workout followed by thirty minutes of low-intensity cardio.

Although this study has yet to be replicated and was conducted on small sample size, it did show that spot reduction is possible. In theory, you might perform an ab workout to increase blood flow and fat mobilisation in one area, followed by 30 minutes or so of low-intensity callisthenics.

Put your focus there because it's been proven time and time again in the literature and in my experience that applying those two steps alone will eventually mobilise and burn off your stubborn belly fat, so focus there first, and then move on to step 3 once you've got that down to potentially speed up the process and for a step by step programme that puts this all together for you so you know exactly how to do it.

I hope you enjoyed this one, people.