What is the best ab workout for losing stomach fat?

Abs Workouts Alone Do Not Create Enough Metabolic Response

If not enough metabolism response, that's means a body not creating fat loss!So the recurrent question is: what are the best types of exercises and workouts for losing stubborn stomach fat in order to bring out visible six pack abs.

The problem is that most people with excess stomach fat looking to try to uncover their abs, are searching for some "miracle abdominal workout" that is going to slash the fat off their abs in no time. The thing is... they are going about the problem entirely the wrong way!

The truth is that you don't lose stomach fat by doing ab workouts.

The problem is that focusing most of your time and effort on abdominal exercises and abs workouts to try to flatten your stomach and bring out 6-pack abs, is simply wasting your time from doing the correct workout programs that will acutally reduce your body fat for good.

If I had to choose an answer as to what the best exercises are for losing belly fat, my answer would include full body exercises such as the following:

• various forms of squats,
• lunges,
• deadlifts,
• clean & presses,
• snatches,
• swings,
• presses and pulls,
• mountain climbers,
• sprinting, etc.

This kind of full body exercises would include a much higher proportion of the workouts I would recommend instead of abs exercises directly targeting the midsection. The way you associate those full body exercises into a strategic workout that maximizes your metabolism outpu is also very capital.

However, a certain quantity of workouts directly targetting the abs and heart are still recommended, but they are only a small part of the program as the time is better spent focusing on the full body exercises, so that they can stimulate the greatest hormonal and metabolic changes within the body.

In addition, a side-effect of working out using mostly full body multi-joint combo exercises are that you indirectly work your entire midsection even though you are not specifically targeting the abs.

Keep in mind that the most important factor for losing fat around belly is to see your abs is actually in the nutrition arena. No matter how hard you workout, if your diet is full of junk foods, then your abs will be caked with hideous fat. Nutrition is really, and without a doubt, the "king of getting a six pack".

So let's demistify this up for good...

Don't waste so much of your time focusing on crunches, leg raises, crunches, and all those silly useless "ab contraptions" in your efforts to try to develop 6-pack abs of your dreams. Instead, it's better to focus on high intensity full body lifts using combination multi-joint exercises all strategically combined into highly effective fat loss workouts. Couple that with a healthy diet full of natural unprocessed whole foods as close to their natural state as possible, and those elusive six-pack abdominals will yours in no time!

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Fatty Food To Choose For Best Health

Following is a list of some of the healthiest fatty foods (some will surprise you!)

• Coconut fat: Coconut fat is approximately 92% saturated fat, yet surprisingly to most people, it is considered a very healthy natural fat. The health benefits of coconut fat lie in its composition of approximately 65% medium chain triglycerides (MCTs). Specifically, about 50% of coconut fat is a MCT called "lauric acid", which has very potent anti-microbial properties helping to enhance the immune system. Also, MCTs are more easily utilized for immediate energy instead of being stored as body fat. Coconut oil is also an excellent cooking oil for stir-frying, etc.
  Effectively, saturated fats are much more stable and do not oxidize like polyunsaturated oils when exposed to light or to frying high temperature, creating damaging free radicals. The best sources of healthy coconut fat are organic coconut milk, virgin coconut oil (available at http://coconut-info.com), or fresh coconut.
  
  
• Extra virgin olive oil: This oil is approximately 71% monounsaturated, 16% saturated, and 13% polyunsaturated. Choose “extra virgin” olive oil, which comes from the first pressing of the olives and has higher quantities of antioxidants. Unlike most other oils on supermarket shelves, extra virgin olive oil is not extracted with the use of harmful industrial solvents and is one of your healthiest choices for liquid oils. Try making your own salad dressing by mixing a small amount of olive oil with vinegar. This is healthier than most store bought salad dressings, which are usually made with highly processed and refined (chemically damaged) soybean oil extracted with industrial solvents.
  
  
• Dark, bittersweet chocolate (>70% cocoa): The cocoa bean is a very concentrated source of antioxidants and responsible for part of the health benefit of dark chocolate. The fat portion of the cocoa bean (cocoa butter) is a healthy natural fat, composed of approximately 59% saturated fat (mostly healthy stearic acid), 38% monounsaturated fat, and 3% polyunsaturated fat. I’ll limit the description of healthy chocolate to ONLY dark bittersweet chocolate with >70% cocoa content. Most milk chocolates are only about 30% cocoa, and even most dark chocolates are only about 55% cocoa, leaving the remainder of those products composed of high amounts of sugar, milk fat, corn sweeteners, etc.
  Look for a quality dark chocolate that lists its cocoa content like Chocolove Extra Dark (77%) or Dagoba New Moon (74%), which contain mostly cocoa and very little sugar. Keep in mind that although dark chocolate can be a healthy treat, it is still calorie dense, so keeping it to just a square or two is a good idea.
  
  
• Avocados or guacamole: The fat in avocados (depending on where they’re grown) is approximately 60% monounsaturated, 25% saturated, and 15% polyunsaturated. Avocados are a very healthy natural food that provides many nutrients, fiber, and healthful fats, while adding a rich flavor to any meal. Try sliced avocado on sandwiches or in salads or use guacamole in wraps, sandwiches, or quesadillas
  
  
• High fat fish: such as sardines, mackerel, sardines, wild salmon, herring, trout, etc.: Just about any fish or seafood are good sources of natural omega-3 polyunsaturated fats, but the higher fat fish listed above are the best sources of omega-3’s. Due to the radical switch to a higher proportion of omega-6 polyunsaturated fats like soybean oil, corn oil, safflower oil, etc. in our food supply during the middle of the 20th century, the average western diet is currently way too high in omega-6’s compared to omega-3’s, which wreaks havoc in your body. This is where good omega-3 sources like high fat fish, walnuts, and flax seeds can help bring you back to a better ratio of omega-6/omega-3.
  
  
• Nuts (any and all - walnuts, almonds, peanuts, cashews, macadamias, etc.): Nuts are great sources of healthy unprocessed fats as well as minerals and other trace nutrients. Macadamias, almonds, and cashews are great sources of monounsaturated fats, while walnuts are a good source of unprocessed polyunsaturated fats (including omega-3’s). Try to avoid nuts that are cooked in oil. Instead, choose raw or dry roasted nuts.
  
  
• Seeds (sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, flax seeds): All of these seeds are great sources of natural unprocessed healthy fats. In particular, flax seeds have received a lot of attention lately due to their high omega-3 content. However, keep in mind that omega-3 polyunsaturated fats are highly reactive to heat and light, and prone to oxidation and free radical production. Therefore, freshly ground flax seed is the only way to go.
  
  Instead of using the store bought ground flax seed, you can buy whole flax seed and use one of those miniature coffee grinders to grind your own flax seed. Try grinding fresh flax seed into your yogurt, cereal, or even your salad. If you’re using a flax oil, make sure it’s a cold-pressed oil in a light-proof refrigerated container, and use it up within a few weeks to prevent it from going rancid. NEVER cook with flax oil!
  
  
• The fat in organically raised, free-range animals: This is where most people have been misinformed by the mass media. Animal fat is inherently good for us, that is, if it came from a healthy animal. Human beings have thrived on animal fats for thousands of years. The problem is, most mass produced animal products today do not come from healthy animals.
  
  They come from animals given loads of antibiotics and fattened up with hormones and fed un-natural feed. The solution is to choose organically raised, free-range meats, eggs, and dairy. At this time, the price is still a little higher, but as demand grows, the prices will come down.
  

Low Fat Diet: Really The Best Choice For Healh?

Low Fat Diet For Good Health: Verity or Lie?

For instance, if what the so called "health experts" are professing all the time about danger of fat is correct, and that the solution to good health is low-fat diet, then why do traditional Pacific Islanders who typically get most of their total daily calories from fat (mostly from coconut fat), appear to be virtually protected from heart disease, obesity, and other modern degenerative diseases (that are, until Western dietary influences invaded)?

What about traditional Eskimo populations, consuming up to 75% of their total caloric intake from fat (from whale blubber, organ meats, seal fat, and cold water fish), display superior health and life longevity without heart disease or obesity either?

Why do members of the Fulani or Masai tribes in Africa remain free from degenerative diseases and maintain low body fat percentages with diets consisting of large intakes of raw whole milk, meat, or even cow blood? What about the Samburu tribe of Africa, whose members eat an average of 5 times the dietary quantity of fat (mostly from meat and raw whole milk) as overweight, disease-ridden American people? Though Samburu are healthy, lean, and never affected by degenerative diseases?

What about traditional Mediterranean diets, which are known to be very high in fat, in some cases sometimes up to 50-70% fat? These people are known to particularly appreciate olives and olive oil, and are also well known to be very healthy!

These revealing examples of high fat diets and the associated excellent health of traditional populations around the world go on and on, though it seems that many physicians, nutritionists, and media publications still neglect these real facts and persist in promote a diet recommending low fat intake.

Well, the problem is that the good fats (the natural unprocessed health promoting fats) have gotten mistakenly lumped together in nutritional advice with the dangerous and deadly processed fats and oils whose a large percentage of almost all processed food is composed. Yes, the one you find at your local grocery store, restaurant, deli or fast food joint, etc.

These deadly processed fats are literally everywhere and almost impossible to avoid unless you know what to look for and make smart choices in what you feed your body with. Fortunately, it's know possible to control on food products' labels that the term "0% transfat" is present.

However, I’m not recommending to follow a super high fat diet. Active individuals that exercise on a regular basis certainly also need adequate supplies of healthy carbohydrates for energy and muscle glycogen replenishment as well as good sources of protein for muscle repair.

I just wanted to prove with the above examples of the traditional populations high fat diets and their corresponding excellent health, the point that you don’t need to be afraid of dietary fats as long as you make healthy natural choices and stay within your daily caloric range to maintain or to lose weight (depending on your goals).

What You Must Absolutely Know About Fat and Saturated Fats

If you have an open mind and accept that some of these facts are a slap in the face to politically correct nutrition in this day and age where fats are admonished by many doctors,so-called "health experts", and the mass media, this article sure will help you.

First, you must know that eating an adequate supply of healthy dietary fats is vitally important to your overall health. Fats are one of the most important components in all of the cell membranes of our entire body. If the quantity of healthy natural fats that you eat every day is sufficient, your cellular processes will proceed normally.

But, if you eat man-made, heavily and/or chemically processed altered fats (damaged fats) that are found in most processed foods, your cellular function will be impaired because these damaged fats become part of your cell membranes and as a result of that, the body will have to work harder to operate correctly, and degenerative diseases may appear.

Additionally, in order to get optimal hormone production, these healthy dietary fats are absolutely necessary: they are essential for the balance within the body for the muscle building and fat burning processes, too.

Vitamin and mineral utilization, enzyme regulation, energy, and other important functions of the body also, are greatly stimulated by a regular usage of dietary fats.

Read the full article about saturated fats I've inserted in Ezine Articles

The Quickest Way to Burn Fat Around Abs

Recently (a few weeks ago), I've tried a new approach about abs training. This is the first time, since I began to train with abs exercises, that I've discovered such a really efficient method. In the begining, I thought it was to good to be true, but believe me: this method really works!

In fact, this method is quite different in comparison with the traditional fat burning ones. Instead of focusing on traditional sit-ups and crunches (it's a wrong approach) which are absolutely inefficient and... so tiring, I've learned that the success key is to stimulate body metabolism to burn excess fat, and that OTHER exercises are far away more effective.
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In fact, most of the exercises of this training course are focusing on boosting body metabolism.

This is effectively why this successful abs training routine works: when activated, your metabolism burns excessive fat very fast. This is the most and only effective way to get success on fast abdominal muscles development.

When I first tried this course, I was surprised to experience a quick fat loss around my belly in only a few weeks (I saw the first encouraging results in about 6 weeks).

As I said above, the exercises you'll discover are different. For example, you'll learn that the cardio workouts mustn't be used in this training process; the author says why they are inefficient.

The author is also a nutrition expert and he teaches what you must absolutely know about food to avoid if you want to stay healthy; believe-me, a lot of them are those we absorb every single day... a scary discovery!

If you want have more detailed infos on this abs training method, you can go to the following website:
www.get-abs.info

On this website, you'll have the possibility to download his FREE e-book "Training Nutrition Insider Secrets for a Lean Body"