When people want to lose weight and increase their fitness, you can guarantee that there is one or more problem area that they specifically dislike and want to banish. More often than not, that problem area is the tummy. Getting rid of belly fat is a top priority to help improve your wellness and wellbeing, as the waist circumference is known to be linked to a number of serious health conditions.
Slimming down your waist is not easy though, and you need to know exactly how to go about it. Many people do hours and hours of crunches every week to try to get rid of their belly fat, not realising that, on their own, crunches and situps are useless. They need to be combined with endurance and cardio if you want to see results.
Endurance training is when you do lots of reps of an exercise with a low weight. You usually do around 20 or 25 repetitions of each exercise, but you use only about 50 to 70 percent of the maximum weight you could truly manage. Your muscles will be exhausted, but in a different way to they are when you do power training.
When you add repetitions to your exercise, what you actually do is draw on your liver to let go of the energy that it stores for such occasions. When this happens, your body urgently needs to replace the sugar that has been removed from the liver, and it breaks down fatty adipose tissue around the body to replace the glycogen that has been taken from your liver and used up by your body. For this reason, it is also really important not to eat immediately after a workout, or your body will simply use the fresh energy in the food that you consume.