Who says abdominal crunches melt away inches from your waistline? Too many people! Whether informercials, or so-called professional fitness trainers calling themselves experts, all too often try to promote their exercise equipment, nutrition potions, and fitness programs for profit using the “do this and fat will melt away instantly from your belly” strategy. 

 In my opinion this is unethical marketing. You do not use a marketing strategy with principles that undermind exercise science. That is wrong! What ends up happening is the consumer hears it, buys into it, and tells ten other people.  Therefore, this false fitness tips streads like a giant wildfire.

What gets hurt? The consumer.

Will doing abdominal crunches everyday quickly burn every inch of fat off your stomach, and love handles? Absolutely not! As a matter of fact, I truly believe more than 70% of the population really thinks that doing situps will take fat off your midsection. Whose fault is this? Partially the companies selling abdominal exercise machines. They portray their machine as the end all, be all secret belly fat solution. Just do this exercise twice a day, and you will we walking on the beach with ripped abs.

My job as a professional fitness trainer has been to untangle the thinking of many of my clients, subscribers, and web surfers; thus, protecting them from lack of fitness workout results as well as extreme frustration. The “crunches melt body fat away” theory will quickly set a new enthusiastic fitness participant up for failure.

Today I am going to save you from all this fallacy by laying the truth right on the table.

Doing abdominal exercises alone will not instantly melt away belly fat. This is a faulty fitness tip that will be squashed once, and for all right now.

Don’t buy into the do these 6 type of ab exercises, and fat will magically disappear. Yes, people want to believe this because they desperately want an easy, quick solution to their challenge.

The quick solution is this. In order to lose stomach, and love handle fat you must follow a complete, well rounded fitness, and nutrition program, not just do crunches. To get results you need a coordinated effort between physical activity, and calorie restriction. That is the key to success, not just doing a few abdominal exercises.

My truthful fitness tip for buring belly fat is to do the follow:

1. Be on a consistent cardiovascular program to improve your aerobic capacity, as well as burn additional body fat.

2. Be on a consistent 2 days a week strength training program that includes the major muscle groups, including abdominal exercises.

3. Decrease your caloric intake by 250 - 500 calories each day from your weight maintenance caloric value. This will help you lose bodyfat throughout your whole body, including your waistline.  The combination of the cardio, plus strength training, plus a sound nutrition program will melt away bodyfat from your belly a lot quicker than doing 1000 crunches day.

The bottom line is you can’t spot reduce. What that means is by doing a particular exercise does not mean fat will magically melt away from the region you are working. Fat shinks throughout the whole body.

This article will now set you straight on all the false fitness tips regarding crunches, abdominal exercises, and the melting away of stomach fat. Your new found results will begin to thank you.

If you participate in a fitness, or diet program, and want to protect your results from all the false fitness theories swirling around quickly get our multimedia fitness tips.

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