Hey guys. Welcome back to another video coaching lesson with YourSixPackQuest.com. We are talking about one my favorite topics—the question I get asked all the time is “Vince, how do you lose belly fat? I cannot get rid of my belly fat!” You see a lot of muscular guys in the gym have fantastic physiques, great pecks, great shoulders, great arms, but then they got a little popped belly. What is going on with that?
Well, I could tell you a couple of things—First things is your diet sucks, you like beer too much, you are not sleeping enough, you got too much stress in your life, and your calories are too high.
Now, to get you back on track here, let me tell you what my program is all about. It is all about loosing belly fat but it does not involve any of the things that a lot of people tell you that will help you lose it. For example, you are not going to see any abductor/adductor machines. You are not going to see ab-rollers. You are not going to see any diet pills. You are not going to see any ellipticals in my program. Let me tell you some of the things that will contribute to getting rid of your body fat. You’ll realize that there are so many things that are going to contribute to losing your body fat.
So, depending on where you are today. Consider this the alphabet, from A to Z. We are not trying to go from A to Z in one week. We are going to go from A to B to C to D and that is how you get to the end goals. Inch by inch, life is a synch; yard by yard, life is hard. So, what we will do is to apply one new technique each week, measure the result and if it continues to work, we keep it. If it does not, we need to introduce something else.
So, for most people, most common mistake in trying to lose their belly fat is that you are probably doing outrageous amounts of cardio. Three problems of cardio, I talked about this before. First problem, is that there is no after burn effect. When you leave the gym, your calorie stops burning. Problem number two, the more cardio you do, the more efficient you become at it. Problem number three is that the more cardio you do, the more muscle you will strip-off your body. And what is muscle responsible for?
Muscles are responsible for jacking up your metabolism, keeping it elevated all day long, so you are a fat burning machine. Think of it this way, let us say you and your friend go to the movies and here she has more muscle in her body than you do. Well, he or she is going to burn more calories just sitting there watching the new Indiana Jones movie than you, just because their muscles are active tissue. Okay.
So, you got to get more muscle in your body. How are you going to do that? Well, cardio is not going to add more muscle in your body. Cardio is going to make you from a big pare to a small pare. We need to incorporate high intensity resistance training. Now, here’s why my program blows away a lot of my programs out there. A lot of people focus on resistance training only on one element. They focus on strength. They focus on getting stronger and stronger and that is fantastic but it neglects speed, conditioning, force—those are other elements that we need to focus on in creating that metabolic demand. That is the stuff we need to focus on, exhausting your energy stores, creating the hormonal responses to create that caloric deficit, so that you truly lose the fat.
Another element to lose the belly fat is interval training and not just interval training. You guys probably have heard this over and over again. You know, going hard for a minute then easy for a minute then hard for a minute for twenty minutes is more effective than a slow sixty minute workout. For most people it is going to be because it is something your body has never done before. It is going to say, “Holy crap! This is really hard! How long is this going to last? It better dig up some energy. I am not going to make it.” And that is when your body digs up in your stubborn fat stores specifically in your belly.
So, another alternative to interval training is hard temporal training. Remember, the greater amount of calorie
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