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Why Doing Ab Exercises To Burn Your Belly Fat Is Absolutely Pointless explained in less than 200 words

Look at your biceps, if you want them to grow; you would do reps of heavy Bicep curls and over time they would repair stronger and eventually bigger


Look at your belly, you want it to be smaller (less fat) yet for some reason you will do a muscle building exercise that builds the muscles at your abs?


You cannot target body fat, which means you cannot do a certain exercise to lose body fat at a certain part of your body. Your body decides based on your gender and genetics; two things you can’t (really) change, where it stores its body fat.
With humans the first place it stores is the belly and the last place it leaves is… the belly, slightly more hips for females


So if you do an ab exercise, you are building your ab muscles, you are not necessarily burning any fat at all from your abs. Which means if anything, all of those sit ups will be helping your belly get bigger as the fat isn’t going anywhere and your building muscle in that area. Congratulations.


To understand a bit more about which exercises should be done (plus nutrition is extremely important) Have a read of my other blog The Best Exercises For Toning And Fat Loss


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