Show Me The Best Exercise to Lose Belly Fat

By Kelly Blackburn

Want the best exercise to lose belly fat? Well, how about 3 exercises? Skip the typical ab exercises, like crunches, situps and leg lifts and you cannot help but burn belly fat while performing these high intensity whole body workouts that will boost your metabolism... thus building rock hard abs & core, but also creating a much better fat-burning workout than a typical ab workout.

You may never do another situp or crunch again after you do this ab workout. This routine consists of a mini superset of 3 different and very effective exercises.

The 3 exercises are 1. Dumbbell Renegade Rows 2. Barbell Front Squats 3. Mountain Climbers on Floor

A good rep scheme to use with this could be 3-4 sets of 8 reps for each exercise, or more sets for less reps, such as 5 sets of 5 reps of each exercise. Instead of counting the number of reps, you can do mountain climbers for say 30 seconds.

Renegade dumbbell rows

Start in a pushup position with the hands on 2 dumbbells. While you row and lift a dumbbell with one arm, stabilize your body with the other arm while you hold the other dumbbell on the floor. Bring the arm back to the starting position with the dumbbell on the floor, then stabilize your body with that arm while you raise the other arm in a rowing motion. You have to use all your abdominals to stabilize your body during the rowing motion. Believe me on this one... believe me you will be working your abs!

Front squats

These are similar to back squats, however with the barbell in front of your body on the front of your shoulders instead of resting on the upper back as in back squats. Cross your arms and while keeping your elbows pointing away from your body, hold the barbell with your knuckles pressed against each shoulder.

You may not get the form right immediately, but with practice and some help from a trainer, you will get it right. You wil really have to use your abs to stabilize your body during front squats. This looks like just a leg workout, but your abs will get a big workout too!

Mountain climbers

Start in a pushup position and then shuffling your feet in and out so that your knees are moving in under your chest and then back out to starting position. It is kind of like climbing a mountain, but you are on a flat floor. For a more intense version, move your hands back and forth about 8-10 inches while you are doing the leg movements. Do these and you will feel it over your whole body, because they work much more than with standard mountain climbers.

Let your body recover for about 30 seconds between each exercise. After each superset, rest about 1-2 minutes.

Your abs will get a great workout and you won't be doing any direct ab exercises. I am confident you will see what I mean after you give it a try! - 17269

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