The Top Fat Loss Secrets to Get Flat Abs

Are you always complaining how you've been working out to lose belly fat for years and yet, but nothing you've tried seems to work? In this article, I will show you the top fat loss secrets to get flat abs.

The first and most important secret to get rid of belly fat is cleaning up your diet. Fat loss exercise is important, but healthy diet is king when it comes to losing body fat.

What is a real healthy diet for fat loss? In many books you can see low carb, low fat, high protein, vegetarian, fasting, Atkins, south beach, liquid diets, and hundreds more. There are many conflicting messages about this question allover the world. So what is healthy for fat loss, and what is not?

The most important thing is that your diet is as natural and unprocessed as possible. For example, eat whole grains instead of refined grains. Eat natural sources of sugar from a high nutrient whole food like fruit instead of refined sugar. Eat natural sources of healthy fats like nuts, avocados, fish, eggs, coconut milk, organically raised meat instead of highly processed, refined, and hydrogenated oils. And so forth.

Another secret is that you should work the body as a whole and your fat loss workouts should have a high intensity. When you spend too much time on training a small muscle group like the abs, you will not be successful to lose fat. Because this can not stimulate a fat burning hormonal environment in your body, and increase your metabolic rate.

Instead, you must spend the majority of your time on training the largest muscle groups of the body like the legs, back, and chest with high intensity. That's what stimulates your metabolism and the fat burning hormones that will make your fat loss successful.

So which exercises are the top bell fat loss exercises that people need to do? Here are some examples: various forms of swings and snatches (unique dumbbell or kettlebell exercises that almost nobody ever does in normal gyms), deadlifts, step-ups, squats, lunges, sprinting, clean & presses, mountain climbers, and other full body exercises and calisthenics. If you want to get a flat stomach, focus on those fat loss exercise instead of focusing so much time on the isolated abs exercises!

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Healthy Eating Recommendations for Your Fat Loss Diet

This article explores changing your taste buds over time to prefer eating healthy natural unprocessed foods.

Many people seem to falsely believe that they'll never be able to lose fat if they don't eat what is thought to be typical fat loss food -- dry plain chicken breasts, plain broccoli, tuna fish, oatmeal, etc. If you've read my newsletters for some time, you know that I'm against this type of boring menu, and like to give healthy meal ideas that have a little more appeal.

However, here is one of the most important things you can do for yourself if you want to eat healthier for life and make it a HECK OF A LOT easier to lose fat and stay that way permanently...

Learn to adjust your taste buds to enjoy the natural unadulterated taste of real food -- unprocessed foods!

This is one of the main problems that I see so many people face with being able to control their eating... they have grown up with processed foods and additives that are excessively AGGRESSIVE TASTES.

• So many foods have excessive added sugars, corn syrups, artificial sweeteners, etc
• So many foods have excessive added trans fats, refined vegetable oils, and other processed fats
• So many foods are laden with excessive (and potentially dangerous) flavor enhancers such as MSG and processed commercial salt

All of this massive onslaught of overly aggressive tastes have rendered most people's taste buds senseless when it comes to the natural taste of real unprocessed foods which is very important for your fat loss.

I was having brunch with a couple friends recently and I noticed one of them dumped this huge heaping spoonful of sugar into their coffee. I can't even imagine being able to gag down a coffee that was so heavily loaded with sugar.

Even diet drinks (which I'd never drink because of the harmful artificial sweeteners) are so excessively sweet these days, they're not even refreshing. I can't understand how people can drink something that tastes like pure syrup.

It's funny but one of my recommendations when people ask for my advice with their eating habits is to give up drinking a sweetened drink with their meals (this means no diet drinks either)... they look at me like I'm crazy and say "How can I possibly eat a meal without a soda or a diet soda?"

If you're addicted to drinking a sweet drink with every meal, it would be a wise decision to start to wean yourself off of them and drink water or unsweetened iced tea instead.

Here's a quick quiz to see if you're officially addicted to overly aggressive tastes:

1. If given the choice, would you choose:

a. sausage or hot dog
b. steak, burger, or chicken breast

2. Do you prefer:

a. sweetened hot tea, iced tea, or coffee (with added sugar or artificial sweeteners)
b. unsweetened tea or black coffee

3. If given a choice for dessert, do you prefer:

a. cake, pie, or ice cream
b. a piece of fruit

4. If you like chocolate, do you prefer:

a. milk chocolate
b. extra dark chocolate

I could think of more, but that'll do for now... If you answered a's more than you answered b's, then you may be addicted to overly aggressive food tastes, and that could be making you pack on more pounds indirectly.

One of the main problems is that needing to eat aggressive tasting foods means that all of that extra salt, MSG, added processed fats, sugars, and artificial sweeteners are playing havok with your hormones, and making you crave extra calories that your body doesn't need.

Don't worry though, it CAN be easy to wean yourself off of these aggressive tastes. I've successfully done it.

About 5 years ago, I'd have called you crazy if you said I'd ever be drinking unsweetened tea or black coffee... I always needed to add a sweetener back then... but now, I actually PREFER to drink them both unsweetened.

What I did was just slightly reduce the amount of sweetener I added over time, and eventually I got used to using none, and actually started to prefer the natural taste of coffee or tea instead of just tasting the sweetness.

Now you can start to see how this all ties back into enjoying the REAL taste of food instead of the ADDITIVES in food!

My healthy eating recommendations for your fat loss diet

• Enjoy the taste of real meats, such as grass-fed steaks, fish, chicken breasts, pork tenderloin... instead of needing the aggressive tastes of the additives in sausages, hot dogs, deli meats, and other processed meats.
• Start to enjoy the taste of the actual coffee or tea instead of the taste of the sugar or artificial sweetener.
• Start drinking water or unsweetened tea with meals (instead of soda or sweetened drinks) at least every other day, and try to increase that to every day eventually.
• Use herbs and spices in your cooking instead of heavy use of salt.
• Try to wean yourself off of cakes, pies, candies, and other sweets... Eat mostly fruit or small amounts of super-dark chocolate instead.
• Avoid eating any and all deep fried foods and processed starch-based side dishes - mac & cheese, scalloped potatoes, etc.

Even doing just some of these simple tips can help you to change your tastes over time and help to overcome your addiction to the overly aggressive tastes that food marketers have pushed on us our entire lives.

I hope these ideas help you to eat healthier, enjoy food more, and lose fat faster!

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Home Ab Fat Loss Workouts and Obliques

Stop Wasting Time on Side Bends, Torso Twists & Other Oblique Exercises... Try These Killer Oblique Ab Workouts to Lose You Belly Fat!

Most ab fat loss training programs neglect one of the most important muscles in your “core”. Sure, you can do tons of abs fat loss exercies like crunches and sit-ups, but if you aren’t properly working your oblique muscles, then you won’t get a flat stomach.

And while your first thoughts of oblique exercises are dumbbell side bends or bicycle crunches, I’ve got 3 killer ab fat loss & core exercises for you today that are just as effective and safer for your low back.

If you do all 3 of these abs fat loss exercises once per week along with one other ab workout later in the week, you’ll double the effectiveness of your ab workouts.

Plus, you can do this ab workout anytime, anywhere. You don’t have to do it just at the end of a regular workout. You can do it in the morning before work, in your office (if you have privacy), in the park at lunch, or while watching your kids or TV at home. It’s so simple and effective, yet doesn’t require any equipment. It’s the perfect three-exercise ab routine for building a sharp set of oblique muscles to compliment your 6-pack abs.

Do each exercise back to back with no rest between exercises. At the end of the circuit, take a 1 minute rest before repeating the circuit 2 more times. If you are a beginner, make the beginner modifications to each exercise and do the circuit only 1 time for the first week. In the second week, you can bump it up to 2 circuits, and finally to 3 circuits in week 3.

Follow this program for 4 weeks, and then add in some new ab fat loss exercises, remove some of the old exercises, and change the order and repetition scheme of the exercises. You need to change every aspect of your workout every 4-6 weeks so that you don’t get bored and so that your program stays as effective as possible. Don't forget that your main focus should still be full body workouts and not just ab workouts if you really want to have lean six pack abs.

Here’s the 3-exercise abs oblique obliteration circuit:

1) Cross-Body Mountain Climber – 10 reps per side
2) Side Plank – 30 second hold per side
3) Spiderman Pushup – 8 reps per side

Here are detailed descriptions of how to do each exercise:

Cross-Body Mountain Climber

• Start in the top of the push-up position.
• Keep your abs braced, pick one foot up off the floor, and slowly bring your knee up to your opposite elbow.
• Do not let your hips sag or hike up in the air. Keep your body in a straight line.
• Keep your abs braced and slowly return your leg to the start position.
• Alternate sides until you complete all of the required repetitions.
• Beginner Modification: Do the standard Mountain Climber bringing your knee straight ahead and do not try to cross your body with it.
  

Side Plank

• Lie on a mat on your side.
• Support your bodyweight with your feet and on your elbow.
• Raise your body in a straight line so that your body hovers over the mat.
• Keep your back straight and your hips up. Hold your abs and entire core tight. Contract them as if someone was about to punch you in the stomach, but breath normally.
• Hold this position for the recommended amount of time then SWITCH sides.
• Increase the duration of the hold each workout.
• Beginner Modification: Do the exercise from your knees. Hold for 10 seconds.

Spiderman Push-up

• Keep your abs braced and body in a straight line from toes to shoulders.
• Place your hands on the floor slightly wider than shoulder-width apart.
• Slowly lower yourself down until you are an inch off the ground.
• As you lower yourself, slowly bring your knee up to your elbow, but keep your foot off the ground as you do so.
• Push through your chest, shoulders and triceps to return to the start position, and return your leg to the start position. Alternate sides until you complete all repetitions.
• Keep your body in a straight line at all times and try not to twist your hips.
• Intermediate Modification: If you can’t do all 8 Spiderman Pushups per side, do as many as you can and then finish the set with regular pushups.
• Beginner Modification: Do the Spiderman Pushup from a kneeling position, or just do regular Kneeling Pushups.

Try adding these abs and obliques exercise circuits into your regular workouts or on alternate days. Give it some time and dedication and you'll have razor sharp obliques and rock hard abs in just a couple cycles.

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Nutrition & Weight Loss Tips that Start with Your Food Shopping

Grocery Store Health Deception - Understanding the Truth about Food Labels

I was at the grocery store the other day picking up some ingredients for a black bean & brown rice with seasoned venison strips dish I was planning to make, when an interesting thing happened.

I had gone straight to the grocery store after training a couple clients at the gym. Well, as I was grabbing some frozen veggies, a friendly lady (who must have seen that I was a fitness coach from my shirt), asked me my advice on a couple frozen prepared box meals she was picking out which had "healthy" claims on the labels (by the way, those prepared frozen meals are usually highly processed crap loaded with sodium and other chemicals).

Now I will say that this woman was VERY overweight, and she mentioned that she has "tried everything" to lose the excess weight and has always failed.

Keep in mind I hear about 50 people a day tell me they've "tried everything" to lose weight and get in shape. The problem that they don't realize is that they're trying all of the wrong things... they're trying all of the gimmicks and fat loss fads that are out there instead of just adopting a TRUE healthy active lifestyle that will make them lean and healthy for life.

Back to the woman in the store...

So we started chatting about her struggles with losing weight and getting in shape, and I began scanning her grocery cart. If I can remember, these were some of the contents she thought were healthy:

• Slim fast shakes (far from healthy...they're actually loaded with high fructose corn syrup, hydrogenated oils, and a bunch of other chemicals)
• Fat Free Rice Cakes (ok...despite so many people believing these pieces of crap are healthy...they really are nothing but pure refined starch with zero fiber, which basically breaks down immediately into sugar in your body, spiking insulin and promoting fat storage...doesn't sound so good anymore, huh)
• Protein bars "Scientifically Slim Body Engineered" or some BS statement like that (I took a gander at the ingredient list of these so called "healthy" protein bars and sure enough... hydrogenated oils, high fructose corn syrup, and enough sugar alcohols to give you diarrhea for a week!)
• Canned fruit in syrup (I guess she could do worse here...but still, why not just eat fresh whole fruit which still contains the skins, fiber, active enzymes, etc, instead of resorting to processed, canned fruit that's been cooked and loaded with syrup)
• Reduced Sugar Dessert Cakes (ok, so these are loaded with nasty artificial sweeteners, sugar alcohols, preservatives, and a chemical ingredient list about 15 lines long)

Do you see what's going on here? This is the same scenario that I see all the time.

Most people are fooled by what the FRONT OF THE BOX says, leading them to believe what they are buying is healthy. On all of these items, the FRONT of the packages had all kinds of great sounding things like "fat free", "reduced sugar", "high protein", "low cholesterol", "low carb", etc.

However, the TRUTH is on the BACK OF THE BOX! Ah yes, the ingredient list and nutrition info is where the real truth is. However, I've realized that most of the general public doesn't know how to fully understand the ingredient list and nutrition info, so they rely on the advertising claims on the front of the package to guide them.

BIG MISTAKE!

If you notice, this woman thought she was doing great with her grocery shopping and buying all kinds of healthy stuff for her and her family.

In reality, EVERYTHING she was buying was highly processed and full of chemicals and industrially refined ingredients. No wonder "nothing has worked" for her to get in shape and lose the excess body fat... she actually hasn't been doing anything right. She's been mislead by all of the confusing marketing and labeling and conflicting nutrition info in the mass media.

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Have fun and choose wisely on your next grocery store trip!

The Worst Abdominal Exercises You Should Avoid On Your Weight Loss Journey!

These days, so many people buy "ab loungers" to lose their belly fat. Most of them are using these ab-chairs as the end-all solution to get a flat stomach. Is it real that you can get a perfect abs just by sitting on these things and rocking a little bit while you lazily watch tv?

You can see the advertises of these products everywhere. Then you may be lured in by the ripped sexy abs of the male and female fitness models that they hired to show on the advertises. In fatct the models themselves have never actually used these equipments. They actually got their toned near-perfection bodies through REAL exercises programs and strict nutrition!

Even if you work very hard and regularly on these gadgets, it would never give you the results you are looking for, because these ab gadgets don't accomplish the most important aspect of truly achieving flat stomach. They don't stimulate any thing for fat loss at all!

There are still thousands of people every day that fall these gimmicks. My opinion on these things is that they are wasting their hard-earned money and time on every ab-gimmick.

So what is the real truth that can take you to get a flat sexy stomach?

1. The most effective strategic combined full-body exercises. These multi-joint full body workouts can stimulate the release of fat burning hormones in your body and increase your metabolic rate to new levels. These are the real types of workouts that actually stimulate the stomach fat burning and increase your metabolism to reduce the fat over your entire body.

2.The real smart nutrition program. No matter how hard you workout, if your diet is full of junk, then your abdominals will be covered with ugly fat. Aoid bogus "extreme fat loss" pills, overly processed foods deep fried foods, restrictive starvation. Instead of starving your body, get a truly natural balanced diet that feeds your body with what it needs.

3. Your workouts need consistency. To achieve you weight loss goals, you should put everything into action and make it a part of your daily life. This is the one most important thing on your weight loss journey. Most people fail in getting their desired body.

If you want to know the details of all of these techniques, you can go to this site. Check out common questions & answers about the abs program to see if this program is a good fit for you.

Fat Loss Workouts That Are Better Than Cardio Exercise

Despite common belief by fitness enthusiasts, cardio workouts are NOT effective for fat loss or losing weight long term.

One of the most frustrating sights in the world is watching men and women do the same so-called “fat loss cardio workouts” for months and months without results. It happens more often than it should. In fact, there’s rarely anyone in most gyms who is able to lose weight with long, slow cardio.

Even research from the scientific journal, “Obesity” showed that even when men and women do up to 300 hours of cardio exercise per year, they only lose 4-6 pounds of weight. That just isn’t worth it! No one has time to do 50 hours of cardio in order to lose one pound of weight.

That’s why you need fat loss workouts that are better than cardio. Research and experience proves that interval training (and even high intensity weight training) is better for burning belly fat than long, slow cardio. Plus, interval training workouts are fun, fast, and more enjoyable. You’ll save time, lose more weight, and build a fit, functional body with these fat loss workouts.

Cardio exercise machines are NOT optimal, but if you must...

First, if you are stuck exercising inside a commercial gym for your workout, you can use traditional cardio machines for interval training.

An easy to do interval training program is to do a 5-minute warm-up followed by six intervals of 30-60 seconds of hard exercise, alternated with 60 seconds of easy exercise. Then you cool down for 5 minutes and you’re done. That’s less than half the time that most people spend on machines doing long, slow cardio.

After a warm-up, do a one minute “work interval” where you will exercise harder than normal cardio. After one minute, decrease the intensity all the way down to a cool-down level for one minute. Repeat the hard-easy combo up to 6 times and then finish with a cool down. That is the simplest way to do interval training.

If you normally run at 6 miles per hour on the treadmill for 30 minutes, you can do your first interval workout by running at 7 miles per hour for 1 minute and then walking at 3.5 miles per hour for 2 minutes. That’s a conservative place to start with interval training. You’d repeat that “hard-easy” protocol 6 times in an interval training workout (after a warm-up and followed by a cool-down).

The best cardio machines (if you must use indoor cardio machines) for fast interval training fat loss workouts are the treadmill and stationary cycle. Rowing machines and elliptical (cross-trainers) are ok, but in my experience, the treadmill and bike are best.

Best Alternative Workouts to Traditional Cardio Exercise

Most people enjoy getting out of the gym or doing alternative fat loss interval training workouts (instead of boring cardio workouts inside a stuffy gym). You can use a kettlebell, your bodyweight, a skipping rope, or medicine ball for interval workouts in just a small space in your home or garage. You don’t need to go to a big, fancy, expensive commercial gym to burn fat or get long term weight loss success.

Plus, it’s easier to experiment with different interval training workout programs when you don’t have to deal with intensity settings on cardio machines. After all, it’s next to impossible to do the popular Tabata interval workouts on a treadmill, bike, or elliptical machine.

In the Tabata intervals, you work hard for 20 seconds and then recover for 10 seconds, and you repeat that 8 times. That makes for a fast and effective 4-minute tabata workout, not including warm-up and cool-down. You just can’t do that on a cardio machine, but it works perfectly for kettlebells and medicine ball exercises, as well as bodyweight circuits.

Bodyweight training is the most underappreciated fat loss workout option. Most folks are drawn to fancy equipment, but mostly because the equipment often makes the workout easier. Moving your own bodyweight is tough, and keeps you honest!

In the Turbulence Training bodyweight cardio circuits, you’ll use 6-8 bodyweight exercises, alternating between a lower body exercise and an upper body exercise, before finishing the circuit with a fast total body exercise such as running in place, burpees, or jumps.

In the circuits, you’ll do 6-20 repetitions per exercise depending on your fitness level. Once you complete the circuit, rest for one minute, and then repeat the circuit 1-3 more times. If you are new to bodyweight circuits, just do two total circuits.

lose fat with these workoutsThe great news is that in most cases, you don’t need a single piece of equipment to do these fat burning bodyweight workouts, so you can do them in a hotel room, your garage, or even in front of the TV.

Now you have lots of fun, fast, effective fat loss workouts that are better than cardio!

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The Best Way to Lose Abdominal Fat

Many people ask the question of "What is the best ab exercise to lose ab fat?" or "What if the best pill for losing belly fat?" again and again.

In fact, training abs directly or eating pills alone can not really lose your belly fat as you wish, because this can not cause much of a metabolic or fat burning hormonal response.

Most people with stubborn belly fat ask this kind of questions seem to find some miracle ab exercises or pills to lose their excess belly fat in no time. They are going the entirely wrong way!. Most of these direct abs training exercises are wasting your time from doing the correct things that will actually lose your stomach fat for good.

Unfortunately, pumping away with hundreds of reps of various crunches, leg raises and twisting exercises does NOT cause much of a metabolic or fat burning hormonal response. Meanwhile, all of that wasted time directly training the abs could have been better spent on a properly designed full body workout program that would elicit a much better metabolic response and increase the fat-burning hormone levels in their body as well.

A certain amount of direct abs training exercises are only a small section of a properly designed full body workout program. The way you combine those full body exercises into a strategic workout that maximizes your metabolism is very important.

Another important thing for ab fat loss is proper nutrition. If your diet is full of junk food, your abs will be covered with stubborn fat, no matter how hard you exercise.

Get enough quality protein in the daily diet. Think fiber like vegetables, fruits and high fiber unrefined grains. Don't be afraid to eat fat. This can negatively affect hormone levels in your body. Avoid artificial trans fats from margarines, shortening and hydrogenated oils that are in most processed foods and deep friend foods.

Properly designed full body training programs, couple with a proper healthy diet, You will lose your belly fat in no time!

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