When You Have More Muscle You Burn More Fat

Have you ever seen a person doing hundreds of crunches in an attempt to get a smaller waist line, or to burn fat solely around their midsection?

Have you ever done this? Well, I’m here to tell you that spot reduction (attempting to lose fat in just that one little –or big– spot on your body that you are unhappy with) does not work.

If spot reduction did work, chewing gum would give you a skinny face, right? What you really need to do is to focus on what does work. If you want your body to burn fat around your midsection, then the latest ab crunch device isnt going to do it.

Just do these three things and you will burn more fat:

1. Build muscle.

What I mean by this is that you will need to perform some strength training exercises because muscle is a metabolically active tissue. So the more muscle you have the more calories and fat you will burn.

A “metabolically active tissue” requires energy to maintain itself. If you have more muscle, you burn more calories, and you can burn more fat.

2. Feed your body every 3 – 3 1/2 hours.

Eat a small meal every 3 ” hours that contains a lean protein, fibrous carbohydrate, and starchy carbohydrate. Doing this will keep your blood sugar levels stable, which will give you more energy, and burn more fat, paradoxically. It will also keep you satiated and you will never feel like you are dieting or depriving yourself.

3. Use interval strength training.

An interval training program is any program that alternates high and low intensities of exercise. “High intensity” is relative to the individual.

The interval training method is the most efficient way to elevate your metabolism and keep it high all day.

You must take action if you expect to see and feel physical changes in your body. DO SOMETHING about what you just learned.

So what are YOU going to do?

Blaming anyone other than yourself is giving your power away. You must examine your beliefs about what is possible in your life. You must develop a strategy to acquire your goal, or find a trainer who already has a proven strategy to attain a similar goal.

You must accept 100% responsibility for who you are right now. You are not limited to your current state — you can change but first you must accept who you are at this moment.

All change happens the minute you decide you are fed up and NOT going to settle for anything. Never settle for anything less than you can be. Make up your mind right now and set a personal fitness training goal for yourself.

Make your personal training goal challenging yet attainable. Set a deadline for its achievement and take action now!