Do Ab Exercises Reduce Fat in Your Tummy?

Most trainers when asked how to reduce the paunch will recommend the famous crunch. But does it really help? The logic here is that working on the specific part will burn fat from that area. This is called "spot reduction". Nothing can be further than the truth.

If it were so, right handed tennis players would have less fat in the right hand than the left. However there's only a marginal difference.

You cannot force the body to reduce fat from a specific body part. You body knows where to store fat and where to burn it from. The best way to burn fat is to burn more calories. Crunches, while being a good exercise for the ab muscles, burn very few calories.

All of us already have abs. We wouldn't be able to sit, stand, walk, turn without our ab muscles. The sad part is they are covered with fat. To burn fat effectively you must do exercises that burn maximum calories.

Running, sprinting, squats, lunges, chin-ups, push-ups are far more effective ways to burn calories. More importantly, these exercises increase your muscle mass thereby increasing your metabolic rate making you burn more calories even when at rest. Smart way right?

Be warned that doing too many crunches may actually hurt your back.

Combine a healthy diet with the above compound exercises and you'll see fast results.

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