This is why I follow Craig Ballantyne as my main Guru.. You see, he always comes up with new ways and workouts to get different people to achieve their dream goals.
This is the oh so popular 300 workout that has taken the fat loss blogs by a storm so I thort I'll put it in mine as well.
If you have not watched the movie 300 yet, I think it's high time you watch it. My jaws just dropped wide open when I saw the greek warriors. Damn, they all have awesome and I mean AWESOME abs, especially the King.
Yes that's right, look at how he looked before he was chosen for the movie, and look at it now. Woho..!
I was terrbily shocked, because I know I am motivated when it comes to fat loss, but this just sent my motivation pulse through the roof. In simple terms, jealousy..!
It's like, man I wish I had those Abs..!
And guess what, when you are jealous of someone else's abs or body, you are either motivated to get a better body than that or you are depressed that you work so hard but never get that kind of body.
I choose the former because, I am a positive guy and for me, motivation is the key to fat loss.
Positive jealousy = motivation.
So my dear readers, GET JEALOUS..!
Its true.. Workouts can be brutal.
For example, do not workout at home with a giant barbell. If you do, always do three reps less than failure because I am talking from experience.
Imagine that you are bench pressing a very heavy bar and all of a sudden you are one rep less then failure, your shoulders and arms are so fatigued now, you can't push the bar up to place it back on the rack.
Yeah, you guessed it, the bar will be on your nect or hanging on your chest while your feet are sky high in the air trying to send momentum to lift the bar back up.
And that is exactly why dumbells or bodyweight exercises are recommended workouts if you are doing it at home..!
How many times have you looked at the mirror and promised yourself that one way or the other, you are going to get rid of your belly fat no matter what..! If you keep promising yourself that same thing everyday, and do nothing about it, then I am ashamed to say that you are a HYPOCRITE to your own body..!
Embarrassing to realize that I am actually talking about you? I know you must be thinking, "How the hell does he know what I do?"
Well, for your information, I was once a hypocrite myself.. And after a long year of embarrassment at college, I finally decided to something about it..
Everything you do from the time you wake up in the morning till the time you fall asleep at night.. What do you think? Do you actually DO it? Or is it DONE for you?
Let me be more clear.. For example; Breakfast: Are you going to use your hands and your energy to actually put the food in your mouth and chew it? Or are you simply gonna walk from home and on the way your stomach gets filled automatically with nutrition rich breakfast with no effort from you or anybody in that case?
I don't think so... Nothing in life is automated...! Even computing is not automated, it runs on given instructions and still needs to be interfaced by a human.. THEN WHY ON EARTH do you think that you are going to lose stomach fat all by itself simply by looking at it everyday in the mirror and promising yourself that you are going to get rid of your belly fat once and for all?
IMPLEMENTATION..! You need to take ACTION..! NO ACTION = NO RESULT
No that I have got the main part clear, I will give you a clear 7 day plan to get yourself a kick start on your fat loss journey. [Please note that your goal is now FAT LOSS and not WEIGHT LOSS].
Day 1: Plan yourself on a nutrition rich diet consisting of 2000 calories divided among 6 meals for the day. Go to the grocery and get yourself loads of lean protein and fiber rich food. Also get yourself a dozen cups of yogurt and a jar of whey protein. Its gonna give that ultra boost for fat loss.
On Day 1, you are going to do a very intensive training that will sweat your clothes off and probably make them see through. The workout plan is available in my previous article which gives you a video if you are unaware of a HIGH intensive workout.
Day 2: If you have a stationary bike or a treadmill, that would be great, but if you don't that is ok, because today you are going to do HIIT. In other words, High Intensity Interval Training. . Be it with a machine, but if you don't, grab yourself a pair of track shoes, because you are going sprinting. This is a major necessity to give you a major boost to losing stomach fat real fast.
And it takes no more than 20 minutes.
EG: Jog for 5 minutes to get your blood running all over your body.
1A Run as hard as you can for 1 minute
1B Jog slowly for one minute to catch your breath.
Repeat Set 1A + 1B, 6 times
Jog slowly for three minutes as a cool down.. Do some stretching and go have a glass of protein shake.
Day 3 and 5: Repeat Day 1 workout.
Day 4 and 6: Repeat Day 2
Day 7: REST.
Remember, just because you want to lose stomach fat or your "belly" fat, that doesn't mean you work your body everyday like a machine and also doesn't mean you treat your body like you a gem..!
Workout and Rest is very important. If you don't get enough rest, you are sure to fail in your mission to lose your stomach fat.
And no matter how much workout you sweating your pant so hard you even make them transparent.. That doesn't mean you are achieving your fat loss goal. To achieve that beautiful sexy six pack and to get a very low overall body fat percentage, NUTRITION and PROPER DIET is like the original engine and the supplementary engine to your fat loss goal..
Workouts are just the waxing and the polishing and the modifications to your body..
Talking from experience, you are going to feel really lazy to do the workout most of the time, but if you don't take action now, you can feel distressed the rest of your life. So get your butt of the couch and TAKE ACTION...!
Remember, a car with a full tank will not burn fuel if it stays in one place, the harder the engine runs, the more fuel it burns..