So, you're looking to lose some tummy fat.
Did you know that the best exercises to do this don't even concentrate on your tummy? Yep.
The best exercises to lose tummy fat are weight lifting exercises such as dead lifts, clean and jerks, bench presses and others.
Why is this you are wondering? Well that's because it take 3,500 calories to burn a single pound of fat.
That is an awful lot of work when you consider that the average person only burns 2,000 calories in an average day.
What the exercises above as well as other compound exercises that work multiple muscle groups do is put your body into a metabolic shock so that you are burning calories at a higher rate even when you are asleep a couple of days later.
You see, sit ups and other stomach exercises don't burn that many calories and, even if they did, you can't spot reduce fat on your tummy any more than you can on your chin.
You have to take an overall approach to reducing your body fat percentage and this is just what lifting weights does.
Running is definitely a good thing to do to lose tummy fat.
However, it's still not as good as weight lifting.
This is because you can spend an hour on the treadmill and only burn 400 or 500 calories.
That is 3,000 calories left to go before you burn that single pound of fat.
And, the fat burning stops when the exercise is done.
Remember, weight lifting increases your resting metabolism rate so you are experiencing the benefits of it long into the future.