You work your tail off. You go to all your kids' school and extracurricular activities. You help with the housework and maybe even cook a little (God bless ya).
And let's not forget that your belly keeps growing and growing. Year by year, month by month, that gut just keeps getting bigger.
You may not even drink beer, but you've got a beer belly and don't know how to get rid of it.
You don't have any free time, so how are you going to fit in a decent workout. And even if you had the time, you wouldn't know what to do other than what you read in a magazine article written by some bodybuilder or fitness model who doesn't understand what it's like to be a busy dad these days.
Your idea of healthy eating is one less burger or cutting back on the bagels in the break room.
So how does a busy dad lose fat? How does a dad who's got little free time to workout lose stomach fat? How do you get rid of that gut and maybe even get some good looking muscles in the right places?
1. You have to do resistance training
OK, that one's obvious, but are you doing it correctly? Do you wander into the gym not knowing what the heck to do so you pick the nearest machine or head straight for the dumbbell rack and proceed to do bicep curls or bench press, or maybe you want to work on that stomach fat and do a few hundred sets of crunches or other abs exercises?
That is not how you do resistance training if you want to lose stomach fat and get in better shape. You've got to head in to the gym with a plan. On second thought, you don't even have to go to the gym. You can get an awesome workout from home using nothing but your own bodyweight and some dumbbells. So let's just take the gym out of the equation totally.
You can get an effective, intense fat burning workout in from home in as little as 15 minutes, which is great for you because you don't think you have time to devote to a longer workout.
When coming up with your workout program you need to throw out all those crunches, the bicep curls and the endless amounts of chest presses and focus on a fat loss workout that will work your entire body and work it hard. You also need to incorporate supersets and mini-circuits to help you get done in as little time possible.
Here's an example of a full body fat loss workout, after you've warmed up:
1A) Push-up - 15 reps 1B) DB Lunge - 10 reps per leg, rest 30 seconds them repeat 2x
2A) DB Row - 8 reps 2B) DB Overhead Squat - 10 reps, rest 30 seconds them repeat 2x
3A) DB Incline Chest Press - 8 reps 3B) Mt. Climber - 30 seconds, rest 30 seconds them repeat 2x
That workout should only take you around 15 minutes to complete and will have you burning fat like crazy. It worked your entire body, including your beach muscles.
2. Nutrition
Another obvious one, but you're probably not even doing the simplest things right. You've got to cut out all the liquid calories from pop/soda, coffee drinks, alcohol, sweetened teas, etc. and replace them with zero calorie drinks like green tea or water. That alone can have you losing upwards of 5-8 pounds in 1 week.
You also need to minimize your portion sizes. If you're like most guys you were trained from a young age to clean your plate. Stop doing that! Cut your portions down by half and you'll see dramatic results. Yes I said half. Most guys eat way, way too much at one time...that's why they've got the belly and want to lose stomach fat.
You should also increase your fiber intake from foods like fruits, vegetables, and almonds. Eat lots of lettuce salads with steak or chicken breast on them, but don't ruin it with lots of dressing. Eat almonds as snacks.
3. Interval training
I don't know too many guys who enjoy doing cardio. Most guys think that cardio is what their wives do for hours upon hours everyday on the treadmill, or see all the ladies doing at the gym.
I want you to get that thought out of your head and instead focus on doing interval training. All interval training involves is mixing bouts of higher intensity exercise with bouts of lower intensity exercise. Take the stationary bike for example. After you warm-up, mix bouts of high intensity cycling for 30 seconds, with bouts of lower intensity cycling for 60 seconds. Repeat that 5 or 6 more times, cool down and you're done.
If it's done right, you will be huffing and puffing when it's done and you'll also be burning fat for hours after you're done.
So there you go busy dad. That's how you lose stomach fat in as little time possible. That's how you get rid of the belly and still have time to spend with your family or hang out with your friends. Follow those 3 tips consistently and you will lose stomach fat, and you'll lose it fast.
Copyright (c) 2008 Ed Scow
A lady doctor from Arizona has blown the lid off the best-kept secret in weight loss and disease prevention ever discovered -- and this has the whole diet food and drug industries turned upside down and in nothing less than a torrential uproar.
Her name is Dr Suzanne Gudakunst, and she's marching to the beat of a different drum.
And no, nothing about her "secret" is difficult -- nor does it require that you do something completely out of the ordinary or anything unnatural.
Instead, the Arizonian boasts proudly "...this is something that I caught onto just before 2002 when there was so much research and exploration going around concerning the human colon and digestive system working in harmony with nutritional absorption, and I started doing independent studies just to test things at first ... but which I later expanded on after seeing some fantastic results."
This same woman medical practitioner went on to accurately determine a definitive correlation between harmful plague and parasitic infestations of the human bowel tract, and people suffering chronic obesity -- and who despite intense diet and exercise appeared to be unable to lose any weight whatsoever.
Over the course of six years the Arizona doctor developed a number of natural treatments for the removal of these same harmful, even life-threatening plaques and rapidly reproducing digestive parasites -- and when applied to even worse-case patients suffering extreme obesity (98% of which were in immediate danger of dying) she saw a 100% effectiveness and success rate.
She then borrowed from her research on the severely obese, and applied the same strategies on milder cases of overweight persons -- only to find the same effectiveness and quality results as described above (although the individual weight loss per subject wasn't nearly as much as those obese patients 100 lbs to 200 lbs or more overweight).
So powerful is her secret that she's able to reverse diabetes, rid illness altogether in people suffering from colon and other types of cancer (linked directly to poor diet and overweight factors), as well as an elimination of an entire spectrum of serious and otherwise life-threatening diseases.
Nearly 100% of all her case subjects were told in the alternative by "conventional doctors" that they either had just months or years to live, or they would never live a life anything resembling remotely a "normal" existence -- yet after applying Dr Suzanne's treatments saw a complete contradiction to others doctors' prognoses.
Again, nothing about her secret is unnatural or requires someone to do any major action or modification in their lives.
In fact, her entire treatment is based completely on built-into-nature 'protection agents' scattered throughout the world in the form of select herbs, extracts, and organic constituents, and which can be found in a variety of plants -- but when combined in specific combinations and carefully chosen amounts make for a solution to what is perhaps the world's worst ever plague: OBESITY (and the illnesses and diseases resulting from it -- or at least severely aggravated or exacerbated by it).
Now to everyone else's great gain, whether suffering from just a few extra pounds and inches, to those extremely fat and overweight, this brave, bold lady doctor is releasing to the general public her secret for forever destroying the tight unrelenting closed-fist of obesity's stronghold over the now more than 40% of Americans labeled obese, and others worldwide.
But she's not promising any of us for how long.
Some experts and sociologists suggest that in the bigger scheme of things, the world will never tolerate a discovery of such magnitude, any more than it would be realistic to expect a car that runs on water (even if very real) to ever become commercially available to the general public for day-to-day use.
One well-respected and famous diet & wellness author wrote years ago that if anyone ever "truly unlocked the keys to permanent fat loss, they may actually suffer the same fate as JFK."
It is currently available at:
=> http://www.timheeter.com/weightloss/
...so you may want to head on over there now and get it and before someone or "something" gets it forever yanked out of ever getting in YOUR hand at least.
It's in a very easily readable format and is quickly and readily understood and mastered by anyone with even a 4th grade reading level.
While you're there, why not scroll down and review for yourself the huge successes others are now having with this incredible breakthrough in rapid, massive weight loss and extremely improved and enhanced health, now made freely available to the rest of us?
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