{"id":17,"date":"2008-06-19T09:54:44","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T09:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/bodybuilding-2\/burning-ab-fat\/.php"},"modified":"2008-06-19T09:54:44","modified_gmt":"2008-06-19T09:54:44","slug":"burning-ab-fat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/bodybuilding-2\/burning-ab-fat.php","title":{"rendered":"Burning Ab Fat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"gareththomasnz\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/bodybuilding-2\/burning-ab-fat.php\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Its time to lose that old belly fat. Man its the only place on my body that has a layer of fat &#8211; and I can do 1000 ab crunches straight. So much for spot reduction. What does work for me very quickly is long slow low intensity running. But after a week or two I get burned out.<\/p>\n<p>This time I am swopping things around to try and avoid that burnout. I&#8217;m doing 20 minutes on the rower then 20 minutes on the &#8230; well I forgot the name for this machine but its just like a bicycle but you use your arms and hands not your legs, while standing. Then the rower for another 20 if i feel like it.<\/p>\n<p>So this is upper body aerobics. In between these days I do weights and I will throw some running days in there too when the weather fines up. The problem for us weightlifters is that running gets dull &#8211; and like I said you get overtrained.<\/p>\n<p>So I may experiment with some other stuff like hiking outdoors, playing squash and swimming.<br \/>\nI have to lose this belly fat, but I dont want to diet and lose muscle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet Its time to lose that old belly fat. Man its the only place on my body that has a layer of fat &#8211; and I can do 1000 ab crunches straight. So much for spot reduction. What does work for me very quickly is long slow low intensity running. But after a week or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[35,16,34],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bodybuilding-2","tag-abdominal-training","tag-bodybuilding","tag-fat-loss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}