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After months of trainings and dieting your are finally getting there. You even workout regularly in the gym and do a lot of cardio exercises. Your friends that saw you only couple of months ago think that you have developed some kind of disease because they can hardly recognize you. But there is still one more goal to achieve and that is loosing that dull belly fat that just won't go away. Maybe you have missed something in your workout or diet plan?
Here are the most common reasons why you still don't have six packs.
Diet
Just trimming down on your food intake is not enough. If you eat cereals in the morning and sandwiches for lunch and dinner than you are on the wrong track. Cereals are full of refined sugars, salts and fats. It is processed food and it is doing you no favors. Sandwitches, regardless of the filling, mostly consists of bread. Even if you are using whole grain bread there is still only small percentage of whole grains in it. Also try to lower calorie intake and spread your meals throughout a day. 4-5 meals per day should be enough. Not before you start spending more calories that you take will you see any improvements. But don't cut to much. 500 calories per day should be enough to lose one pound of fat per week.
Cardio Workout
What kind of workout are you having? If you only do low intensity cardio workout (30-60 minutes) you are burning calories but you hardly loose that belly fat. To really tone yourself you need to continue burning that fat around your waist with more intensive cardio workouts. Try adding interval training in your cardios that will range from 5-10 minutes of low intensity to 2-3 minutes of high intensity workout.
Weight training
Weight training helps in building more muscles and more muscles means burning more fat. You must target all your muscle groups, not just the abs, and you don't even have to do your abs every day. Targeting large muscles groups helps to burn more calories even hours after performing a workout. The core part of your workouts should involve multi-joint movements which include squats, dead-lifts and other pressing movements. This way you can utilize more muscles at once saving time at the gym and getting better results in return.
Hydrate yourself
Don't forget to drink enough water before, during and after workout. Dehydration can affect duration and quality of your workouts and it takes more time to recover. Drink 15-20 fl oz 2-3 hours before workouts and 8-10 fl oz 10-15 minutes before workout. Drink 8-10 fl oz every 10-15 minutes during exercise. Weigh yourself before and after exercise and drink 20-24 fl oz of water for every pound lost.
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