To lose weight

Variety is the spice of life. You wouldn’t want to eat the same foods every day, so why settle for the same exercises ever day. After awhile those same old exercises just won’t get the job done. They will not boost your metabolism, they won’t build lean muscle and they won’t help you lose belly fat. When you are using the same exercises without variety you eventually hit a plateau and your body quits changing. With these seven tips you can keep some of your favorite exercises but make simple changes to your workout that are effective at adding variety, reshaping your body, boosting your metabolism and melting away belly fat.

Seven Variety Adding Tips to Your Workout

1. Change the number of repetitions. This is easy, instead of 50 push- ups do 75.

2. Change the order of your workout. Keep those favorite exercises that you enjoy, but change the order in which you do them.

3. Increase or decrease the rest period between exercises. If you are currently taking a 90 second rest, increase it to 2 minutes or decrease it to one minute before moving onto the next exercise.

4. Change or begin using equipment. If you have not been using equipment, then try adding weights to your hands or ankles. Or change the amount of weight that you are using.

5. Try using a super set or a quad set in your exercise routine to lose belly fat. For example do back to back exercises, moving immediately from one to the next. A quad set of exercises would include upper, lower, abdominal and core movement exercises.

6. Invest in a stop watch; don’t have “time” to find one? Try an egg timer, set the timer on the microwave. Complete a circuit of three or four exercises completing as many as you can within a set amount of time.

7. Do the one minute exercise. Challenge yourself to see how many repetitions of an exercise you can complete in one minute. The next time you exercise try again, if you did 50 push-ups, try for 55, then 58, pushing yourself further each time.

Many of these ideas to encourage variety in your work out and increase your body’s ability to eliminate belly fat you may have already thought of, some may be new to you. No matter which one you try each of them offer you new opportunities to add variety to your exercise routine, reshaping your body, and eliminating unattractive belly fat.

Scott Colby is an internationally known fitness professional, speaker and is author of the internationally popular Abs Uncrunched. In addition, Scott is the owner of AbsUncrunched and The AbsExpert.com and is the creator of the online teleseminar series My Ultimate Body Makeover and Amazing Abs Formula, which have helped tens of thousands of people in over 100 countries around the world.

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