The Best Ab Exercise For Fat Loss

One of the most common questions out there is what is the best ab exercise I can do to get a lean flat stomach. The answer is a surprising, None. When you are doing straight ab exercises you are not creating enough of a metabolic response to burn enough calories to produce fat loss. You are strengthening your muscles underneath the fat, but that will not work to produce a six-pack. In fact, sometimes it may even produce larger muscles underneath the fat, which will push the abdomen out even further, and will seem like you actually have a larger belly.

The best ab exercise for fat loss in fact is not an ab exercise at all. You really need to be focusing your time on losing that fat around the abs. You need to work on stripping this off the abdominal walls so you have the opportunity to show off the ab muscles below. Most of the time doing crunches and sit-ups are simply a useless waste of time.

So if these direct ab exercises are a waste of time, then what is the best exercise for fat loss?

This is a fantastic start, because we have go to a key question. We need the best exercise for fat loss. To produce fat loss, you need to build muscle and burn calories. The best exercises to do these are compound movement exercises like squats, deadlifts, presses, rows, pull-ups and dips. Doing these exercises along with interval fitness training exercises will be the best way to build muscle and burn calories.

Instead of focusing on your midsection, focus on building your entire body. There is a theory out there called spot reduction. It is simply a myth that has been contrived by the fitness world to sell useless gadgets. By working on your waist you will not burn fat from your waist.

Fat loss is a genetically predetermined process. Men have the most trouble with their waist and women with their buns and thighs. It doesn't matter if you work 24 hours a day on those particular trouble spots, you are going to lose fat from other areas instead.

So, stop wasting your time working on situps and crunches, or leg raises... Or even worse those terrible ab machines that are on all the advertising channels. You need to focus your efforts on high intensity full body work, multi joint exercises. Keep working hard and that elusive six pack will come.