Craig Ballantyne

5 Six Pack Ab Workout Myths: Why Hundreds of Crunches and Situps Are the WORST Fat Burning Program to Lose Stomach Fat, Flatten Your Abs, and Give You Six Pack Abs

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No one is too busy for a fat loss workout. It doesn't matter if you are Bill Gates, everyone has 10 minutes per day to work on burning belly fat. All you need to do is choose the right exercises. And that means total body, multi-muscle movements that you can do anywhere, including the comfort of your own home.

Most people think a fat burning workout has to be 60-90 minutes long (in order to do cardio and circuit training). But that is so 1980's. Science has shown us you don't need that much time. And forget everything you've ever heard about the so-called "Fat burning zone" or the need to exercise for 20 minutes before your body starts burning fat.

As I have said before, the whole idea of a fat-burning zone or a magical fat-burning time period just doesn't fit with the common sense approach to fat loss. People can lose fat without doing any cardio at all - so it is clear that you don't have to workout for at least 20-minutes with your heart rate at 60% of your maximum heart rate.

Again, those are nothing but myths propagated by the 1980's aerobics exercise craze. They forgot to mention that by working harder, but for shorter periods of time you will boost your metabolism and burn calories long after you stop exercising. So you can use either interval training or resistance training to do a 10 minute bodysculpting workout anytime, anywhere.

It's funny though, because so many people still tell me they don't have time for even a 10-minute workout. Well, I ask them to add up all the time they spend watching American Idol, or hilarious Youtube clips, or gossiping and we are always able to find 10 minutes for a workout. Heck, it takes some of my clients as long to complain about having no time to workout as it would to do the workout!

Fat loss is simple. You have to crank your metabolism with workouts that help you burn calories when you are not exercising. And then you just have to make sure you eat fewer calories than you need. That's it!

So here's my gift to you:

10-minute Workouts You Can Do At Home

A) Bodyweight Circuit

Prisoner Squats Pushups Pullups or Inverted Bodyweight Rows

Do 10 repetitions per exercise. Do not rest between exercises. Rest 30-60 seconds after completing the circuit and repeat until 10 minutes have elapsed.

B) Dumbell-Bodyweight Fusion Fat Loss Superset

Dumbell Split Squats Decline Pushups

Do 10 repetitions per exercise. Do not rest between exercises. Rest 60 seconds after completing the superset and repeat until 10 minutes have elapsed.

C) Dumbell Upper Body Workout

DB Chest Press DB Row

Do 10 repetitions per exercise. Do not rest between exercises. Rest 60 seconds after completing the superset and repeat until 10 minutes have elapsed.

D) Dumbell Total Body Workout

DB Incline Press DB Reverse Lunge

Do 10 repetitions per exercise. Do not rest between exercises. Rest 60 seconds after completing the superset and repeat until 10 minutes have elapsed.

E) The Ultimate Dumbell Total Body Workout

DB Chest Press DB Squat

Do 12 repetitions per exercise. Do not rest between exercises. Rest 60 seconds after completing the superset and repeat until 10 minutes have elapsed.

You'll be pleasantly surprised with how you feel at the end of the 10-minutes. And your metabolism will be elevated for a much longer period than if you trained in the fat-burn zone for 10-minutes.

In any case, if you find yourself with another 10 minutes, you can up the fat-burning ante by doing 10 minutes of intervals. This too is far more effective for fat loss and fitness than 10 more minutes in the "so-called" fat-burning zone.

I could go on and on with these fast fat loss workouts...until then, train hard, train safe, and train better than everyone else in the gym.

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Craig Ballantyne's interval training workouts have helped thousands of men and women with weight loss and fat burning in less than 45 minutes three times per week. Ballantyne's belly fat burning workouts help you lose fat without long, slow cardio sessions or fancy equipment. Craig's bodyweight circuit workouts help you lose fat without any equipment at all.