I haven’t always had six pack abs and a fitness model body. In fact I used to have a very average looking body with barely any muscle definition and if you looked at me back then (before I knew the secrets I am about to share with you), you wouldn’t have been able to tell that I worked out at all and to tell you the truth, I used to have no confidence in the way I looked and felt.

Now I used to work out a lot, around 4-5 days a week and I would be in the gym for hours it seemed. I also thought I was eating healthy. But I just wasn’t getting the ripped six pack abs I had been struggling so hard to get. My stomach was as soft as a marshmallow.

I was making some simple mistakes that I had learned from watching too much crap on tv, and reading to many fitness and health magazines that were full of bogus information. It wasn’t my fault that I wasn’t getting results and it’s not your fault either.

We get so much misleading information from media these days it’s hard to know what to believe and what to throw in the garbage.

I was lucky enough to find these 4 steps that I used to burn off my belly fat and I finally got my six pack abs to show. These 4 simple steps are the base of what I now teach and have structured my whole workout and nutrition program around.

Now I used to sit on the treadmill for hours it seemed. I would also ride the stationary bikes and go on long runs in the woods. But still I looked down at my stomach… NO ABS!!

The problem with these long, boring cardio methods is that when you don’t switch up your intensity levels and when you do cardio at the same pace for too long you don’t burn fat fast enough and if you run for more than about 45 minutes at a steady pace you can actually start burning through your muscle and not your fat.

So if you are burning muscle and barely burning any fat with these boring cardio workouts that take up hours of your day, you are actually working against yourself. This is how people become what I like to call Skinny Fat. They might be losing weight, but they don’t look like they work out AT ALL!

Now there is no such thing as spot fat reduction, So you can’t directly train your abdominals right away and expect to get six pack abs.  Ab workouts don’t burn belly fat!

So in order to burn belly fat you need to do exercises that burn fat from your entire body while also gaining muscle. Full body workouts that target large muscle groups like your legs, back, and chest burn the most calories, and will continue to burn calories after your workout.