Squat Rack, Best Place To Lose Belly Fat:
By Chef K.T. Murphy
For years, fitness magazines and people everywhere have been telling you that should lose weight by eating less and moving more. Most people think that this means you should do a lot of cardio while eating a very low-calorie diet. Unfortunately, this advice may not be the advice that you should take to lose stubborn belly fat.
Stubborn belly fat can be one of the hardest things to get rid of because it is located around your internal organs and your body does not want to let go of this excess cushioning and protection.
Very low-calorie diets can reduce body fat, but they also have a tendency to slow metabolism. While cardio is a great form of exercise running and walking will only allow you to burn so many calories based on the muscle mass that you currently have. To burn more calories, you need to build more lean muscle mass.
Why Choose The Squat Rack?
Full body exercises like squats, deadlifts, and lunges are going to provide your body with calorie-burning exercise. In addition to the calorie burn that you get from the exercise, you are also going to be building muscle for many muscle groups. When you add muscle, you give your body the ability to burn more calories throughout the day, even when the body is at rest.
Why does adding mass muscle help you burn body fat and get rid of that stubborn belly fat? Lean muscle mass allows you to use more calories even when at rest. According to WebMD 10 lbs of muscle burns 50 calories when at rest as compared to 10 pounds of fat that only burns 20 calories when at rest.
Can’t I Just Use Cable Machines?
A squat rack will provide you a better variant of exercises that you can perform with a single piece of equipment. Staying at the squat rack is going to cut down on time you would have spent moving from one machine to another if you choose cable machines.
Also when using free weights like a squat rack, you utilize many auxiliary muscles to stabilize your body. The use of axillary muscles increases the number of calories burned during your exercise and will also increase the muscle mass of the secondary muscles. Therefore, on a squat rack, not only will you burn more calories but you will also build more muscle.
Add Metabolic Circuits For An Even Higher Calorie Burn
In the end, getting rid of body fat is all about how many calories you can burn in a day. The higher the calories you use versus the calories you take will result in fat loss. Making your body use fat for fuel will ultimately reduce your belly fat.
Metabolic circuits are more efficient than straight cardio or plain weight lifting as to the intensity and calorie burn rates. The metabolic circuit is a circuit-based training that focuses on weight lifting and body weight exercises. According to Nerd Fitness, utilizing a metabolic circuit can increase fat reduction by almost 3 times as much as a steady state cardio workout.
Part of the reason for this powerful method of fat loss is the duel function of a metabolic circuit. Metabolic circuits provide you with little down time and intense muscle building exercise. If you are doing full body chain exercises like squats, lunges, deadlifts in your metabolic circuit you are going to get an even bigger boost because of the nature of the exercises.
Now if you absolutely love running for hours, there’s no reason not to continue running. However, if you find that your cardio is not allowing you to lose that last bit of belly fat you may want to add in some work on a squat rack or some metabolic circuit training that incorporates full chain exercises like squats and lunges. This could give you the boost you need to blast that belly fat.
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Chef Murph
