How To Lose a Pooch Belly

The pooch belly is caused by excess visceral fat. Losing a pooch belly means simply to burn off that fat.

Visceral fat is the fat surrounding your internal organs. It's deep inside your body cavity, and over the years your body slowly adds more and more visceral fat. It's not to be confused with subcutaneous fat, which is the fat between your skin and muscle.

Women tend to accumulate visceral fat in their lower abdomen, hence creating the pooch belly. Men tend to carry it more evenly throughout their abdomen, giving them that bloated look.

The only way to burn off visceral fat is through intense physical activity, on a continuous basis. Moderate activity can prevent visceral fat from growing, but only intense activity will reduce it.

Visceral fat is the energy your body hoards as its last resort, so it's not going to utilize it unless it absolutely has to. You have to convince your body that in order to survive, you must use expend a lot of muscular activity, only then will it burn that fat and grow muscle tissue.

Intense physical activity would be jogging/running for 15-20 miles a week. It could be heavy weight lifting three to four times a week. It could be intense aerobic exercises four to five times a week.

A pooch belly is not just an embarrassing part of your physique, but it's dangerous to your health. It's full of hormones that eventually causes diabetes and cancer as you get older.