There are plenty of fitness exercises that trainers promote, but not all of these exercises are the best exercises for you to lose belly fat. You need to make sure that your exercise are targeted, and that you are doing them using the proper techniques. Only then can you be sure of losing some tummy fat, and reducing your waist measurements.

Many personal trainers have their own favourite exercises to lose belly fat , and they suggest interval training as a great way to lose fat and live well. What is interval training? Consider this jogging workout. If you jog for 5 minutes, say, then you jog faster for one minute, jog for another 5, run for one, and continue this for the length of your workout. This forces a change in your metabolism, and your body will burn more fat for the spurts of extra energy that are required to go the extra speed.

Squats are also good fat burning exercises, because they use several muscles at a time. Increasing the number of muscles you use during a workout will burn more fat. Try doing some squats, and you will soon be able to identify the muscles you are using!

Another exercise is the stomach vacuum, even though it doesn’t use very many muscles, it still target your stomach. You can do them standing or sitting, and all you do is just suck in your stomach as hard as you can, and hold those muscles tight. Because you can do this exercise at any time anywhere you choose, you can repeat it often throughout the day and it is an effective one to strengthen your stomach muscles, and get them used to being pulled in.

Besides doing these targeted exercises, you also need to watch what you eat by trying to make all your meals and snacks healthy ones. Eat plenty of fruits and vegetables, cut out the refined foods as much as possible, foods like flour and sugar, and make sure you have some protein with each meal, so some fish, or meat, or a little low fat cheese. There are many options, and naturally you need to reduce the quantity you consume over the course of each day. Divide this food out over 5 or 6 snacks and meals, with your total food eaten being less than you normally eat.

Your body never really gets hungry by eating so frequently, and it will be able to digest the food more easily, turning it into energy for you to use quicker than if you have a packed stomach.

So, in conclusion, work on interval training to burn off that fat through exercise , while you eat a healthy diet, with plenty of vegetables and fruits, but have smaller portions regularly throughout the day rather than in big meals. Do this and, your body will start to lose its fat, and your belly will get flatter, just as you’d hoped!

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Fat burning exercises, or exercises that burn fat while you do them tend to be a low intensity long duration cardio type exercises. I recommend you not do these because they do not promote building muscle or burning fat after the exercise is over.

Standard cardio exercises like walking, only burn fat calories while performing the exercise. The better fat burning exercises to do would be interval training, where you have short bursts of moderate to maximum effort followed by longer active rest periods. For instance you could sprint for 1 minute and then walk for 3 minutes and repeat this 4 minute interval 5 times for 20 minutes.

The advantages are; shorter workout time, burn more calories (in the form of carbohydrates), build muscle, increase endurance and burn fat calories for the next 24 – 48 hours. Your body will respond by using it’s fat stores to replace the burned fuel for the next day or so. By increasing your muscle mass you can burn more calories while your sitting around.

If you want to look like a sprinter then train like one. If you want that marathoner look then go for the long duration low intensity cardio.

I think the best fat burning, use every muscle in your body, weight lifting exercise there is, is the clean & jerk. If you only have time to do one exercise in the gym, this is it. Check this out. Your moving a weight from the floor to overhead, 7 or 8 feet. Any other lift you’re only moving the weight a couple of feet, if that. Plus you are using about every push and pull muscle in your body.

Try 3 sets of a weight you can do about 10 reps with, or go for time and try three 60 second rounds and see how many reps you can get in each round. Either way this is one killer workout.

For those of you who don’t know what clean and jerks are, it’s sort of like a deadlift, an upright row and a squat press all rolled into one. There is a technique to doing olympic clean & jerks, and I’ll leave that to those guys. My form is not perfect, but I do them for reps, not competition.

To burn fat, stick with the big compound exercises that work the whole body. Clean & Jerks, squats, deadlifts, and to a lesser degree, pullups, dips and benches. For instructions on these exercises, and others, check out, the No Nonsense Muscle Building program by Vince Delmonte.

For a total body workout that requires a minimum of equipment and time and a maximum of full body muscle recruitment, I recommend, Turbulence Training. The only equipment that you have to have for body weight exercises is your body, so you don’t even need to belong to a gym. Craig Ballantyne will set you up with workout routines that focus mainly, but not entirely, on bodyweight exercises to get you moving, and burning calories and building muscle, without having to join a gym or buying a lot of equipment. Turbulence Training will show you that bodyweight exercises are the best fat burning exercises.

If you’re not eating a healthy diet with a wide variety of fruits and vegetables, lean protein and healthy fats, none of your exercise will ever show on your body. You can put down a thousand calories in a few minutes, but you’ll never burn them off that fast. Don’t try to out train a bad diet, you’ll lose every time.

Try out those clean and jerks for 3 sets of 10 and see how you feel and know that all that work might have burned 50 – 100 calories. You’ll think twice about what you shove down your gullet.

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