DietMotion

I hear it all the time that you can get rid of your belly fat by working your abdominal muscles. This is based on some belief that fat is eliminated from a part of your body if you engage the muscles underneath that fat. False! Your body decides where to put fat and from where to remove it. It’s a system that is determined mostly by your genetics, but also based on a few clever strategies:

1. Your body stores fat in your midsection (your abdomen, hips or buttocks) because it takes less energy to carry it around. (more…)

It looks like we were all doing it the wrong way according to News.com.au! Researchers at the University of NSW and the Garvan Institute studied 45 overweight women over 15 weeks, putting them through a 20 minute cycling regime in which they sprinted on a stationary bike for 8 seconds followed by 12 seconds of cycling lightly.

UNSW Associate Professor Steve Boutcher said that:

“They lost three times more weight as other women who exercised at a continuous, regular pace for 40 minutes.” (more…)