What Are the Best Exercises to Lose Belly Fat?

Some of the best exercises to lose belly fat are weight training exercises. Lifting weights builds muscle and using more muscle uses more calories.

Simple. Plus if you do them properly they will improve your posture and your balance.

The first two exercises are nothing new and you can do them at home with no special equipment required. You will get great results if you do them along with some resistance training three times a week.

3 Best Exercises to Lose Belly Fat

Squat

This is a great exercise for working some major muscle groups in the legs. And it works the glutes too, which will firm up your butt. There are lots of different types of squat including front, split and hack squats. Whichever you choose they all work the thighs and burn calories.

Stand with your feet hip width apart with your hands by your sides. If you don't have any dumbbells you can hold bottle of water or milk cartons. Lower yourself as if you were sitting down keeping your back straight and your chin up. Slowly drop until your thighs are parallel with the ground inhaling as you go. Hold for a couple of seconds and then return slowly to the start as you exhale. 

Bench Press

This is an all time classic exercise and strengthens multiple groups of muscles at the same time. The shoulders, chest and arms are all worked at the same time. It is best to do it on a bench so you really stretch your chest on the way down and then push through on the way up. If you don't have a bench you can still just lie on the floor and do it.

Lie on your back hold the weight above your chest with your arms stretched out but not locked (or weights. Again you can do it with water bottles). Lower the weight to your chest as you inhale. Be sure not to arch your lower back and do not bounce the weight off your chest. Push back up and breath out.

You may be thinking well how can these be the best exercises to lose belly fat when they use the arms and the legs. Actually, you burn fat from all over your body at the same time doing these exercises.

This next one in this list of the best exercises to lose belly fat is different as it is not about lifting weights.

Plank

This target the abdominal muscles running down the middle of your front. It will also strengthen your lower back and reduce any pain you have in the lumbar region. This will also help you hold in your gut!

Start out lying on your front. Get up onto your elbows. Have your elbows directly below your shoulders and your forearms flat on the ground. Keep your whole body straight from your shoulders to your heels with your feet up on your toes. Hold for 30 seconds.

This is a great exercise that works the whole body and will be sure to make your tummy look flatter.

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