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You need to push yourself each and every workout. If you aren’t pushing yourself during your workouts, if you are barely breaking a sweat, if you aren’t uncomfortable then you are not getting everything out of your fat loss efforts.

Ask yourself if you are happy with the results that you are getting from your attempt to burn bell fat. If you are not satisfied with your progress then you will find a few suggestions below to ramp up the intensity of your workouts and to help you burn fat at high levels.

Use Multiple Muscle Group Movements

If you are doing biceps curls for fat loss then you are headed down the wrong path. If you are trying to burn fat then you need to focus on exercises that involve multiple joints and multiple muscles. You need to focus on exercises such as barbell or dumbbell squats, deadlifts, military press, barbell bench press or dumbbell bench press or pushups, pullups, etc.

When you perform exercises that use multiple muscle groups you create a bigger metabolic effect and of course that leads to even more burned calories. So ditch the curls and triceps exercises.

Alternate Between Upper and Lower Body During Your Workout

You will want to keep moving if you want to burn the most fat possible. If you are doing barbell squats you cannot immediately begin one set the moment that you finish the previous set. Your legs would have no time to recover. If you are performing a typical weight lifting set you are waiting a minute or more in between sets. If instead, you move on to an upper body exercise and perform that then you will keep your heart working to pump blood to your entire body and you will be giving your legs time to recover. When you are done with your upper body set you should be able to move right back to your squats once again.

This will have a tremendous metabolic effect on your body. Your heart will be working harder and as that occurs you will be burning more calories.

If you really want to ramp up the calorie burning you can throw in some box jumps or squat jumps or jump knee tucks into your workout routine. This will ramp up the fat burning process.

Take as Little Rest as Possible

If you want to ramp up your fat burning efforts then cut down on the rest between sets. You are already increasing you fat burning with the previous two tips but if you limit your rest you will keep up your heart rate and enhance your fat burning capabilities. It also means that if you are working out for a set time that you will get more work in if you cut down on your rest. Less rest means more work and more work means more burned calories.

So if you haven’t been pushing yourself during your workouts then it is time to stop cheating yourself and get serious about burning fat.

So you have some belly fat that you want to get rid of. Don’t we all. The process for doing so if fairly simple. Take in fewer calories that you expend. Eat better foods. Perform high intensity interval training and begin a weight training program. That is the secret to fat loss in a nutshell. If you want to find success and see the belly fat melt away then follow the steps above. But if you want to get a little extra kick out of your fat loss efforts then you might want to try some of the foods below.

There are a few vegetables that can go a long way toward helping you achieve the seemingly mythical six pack abs. These are not miracle foods and by themselves will not do anything for you but together with the advice from above you help you reach your target fat loss a little quicker.

So without any further adieu here are five vegetables that will help you in your fat loss efforts. They should be a part of your diet on a regular basis.

Brussel Sprouts

Broccoli

Cauliflower

Kale

Cabbage

The reason that these vegetables have a tendency to help your effort to lose fat is that they attack your body’s hormones on two fronts. The first is that they have anti-estrogenic properties. This is a fancy way of saying that they lower the estrogen levels in your body. Estrogen if a hormone that can cause you to store fat. If you are trying to lose fat then this is the last thing that you want.

These vegetables also have a small anabolic effect on the hormones responsible for building muscle. So make these cruciferous vegetables a part of your diet. Make sure that you eat them with some healthy fats as well. This have been shown to help the veggies be utilized by your body correctly. So kick up your belly fat loss efforts and put these vegetables on your favorite foods list.