There are various cause that form that concentration of fat around your abs, it can be lifestyle, food allergies, bacteria, stress, bloating, and inflammation. As more years passed, there is high possibility for you to gain extra belly fat and one of the best method to lose it is exercising.

The best exercise to lose belly fat is cardiovascular exercise and weight training. It might not appear to train the abs directly, however in term of losing fat, you simply cannot select only one part of your body; rather, the exercises can lead to fat loss all over your body.

How to Identify Cardiovascular Exercise

Losing your belly fat means you must burn the fat directly from all of your fat cells; in other words, it can't be done by doing abs focusing exercises only like sit-ups or leg raises.

Rather than abs exercise, you should focus more on cardio exercises; which by definition is any form of activities or exercises that make your cardiovascular system stronger. How to identify a cardio exercise? Simple, if it get your heart rate up, it is cardio. Yet, you need to aware that ‘classic’ cardio such as jogging or biking will have very little effect to your belly; you might even get bored before you see virtually any result.

Please note that I'm not saying that jogging, biking, or walking are useless. They might not offer fast result, yet they do can keep your body fitness.

Cardio Exercise and Weight Training – the Best Application

If running or bicycling won’t do, which exercise can work? The answer is the combination of both cardio and weight training; the good news is there is a trick to do it efficiently.

The secret trick is to perform weight training and cardio at the same time, thus you'll train your cardiovascular system while building lean muscle. Let me reveal a few examples:

1. Use a barbell or dumbbell, lift it from the floor up to shoulders, then push pressing overhead (do it while standing). One important thing is always use the weight that offer enough challenge for you. Do a hard set of around 10-15 reps and you’ll notice that you are huffing and puffing like you just ran a 100 meter sprint.

2.Get a dumbbell and do one arm snatches; 20 reps for each arm. Just as before, pick the ideal weight for your dumbbell.

3. Some bodyweight squats, lunges, and push ups for five minutes straight with little rest.

All the exercises above are looked like weight training exercise or strength training, but it also reinforce your cardiovascular system as well, so you acquired two benefits in one go.

Other benefits of these exercises are saving your time and strengthen almost every muscle in your body, thus boosting fat loss process and make you get even leaner body. Truth: possessing more muscle will burn much more calories every day even if you do nothing.

Doing weight training and cardiovascular exercise at the same time is the best exercise to lose belly fat; nonetheless, you need to keep well balanced nutrition consumption throughout the day.