2017
Best Exercise to Get Rid of Stomach Fat?
This might be the most common question personal trainers get.
My answer:
You can't get rid of fat around your stomach by doing ab exercises alone (what is called "spot reduction") because your body doesn't work that way.
If you reduce your calorie intake below what your body burns on a daily basis, you will steadily lose stomach fat.
The best way to increase the daily calorie burn is not by doing ab exercises, it is by doing exercises that use the bigger muscles in your body (butt, legs, back, chest, etc.).
Exercises like squats, deadlifts and rows burn many, many more calories than any specific ab exercise.
Think of body fat as being like ice on a windshield.*
You can't turn on your window defroster and just defrost the middle of the windshield.
The defroster just warms up the entire window and the ice will melt however it is going to melt.
Same thing with exercise to lose body fat.
You can't lose fat just around the middle of your body by doing specific ab exercises.
You can only "heat up" the entire body and the fat will disappear however it is going to disappear.
Doing squats, deadlifts, rows, etc. "heats up" the body much faster than ab-targeted exercises and so are a better choice to get rid of fat around the middle.
Does this make sense?
*Native Southern Californians might need to use your imagination about defrosting a windshield.
