Body Fat loss

[1tight_tl]

I was wondering if anyone has some suggestions of dropping that last bit of fat from the mid section. I keep testing my body fat with two different handhelds and I always register between 9.5% - 11%. I have been working my ass off wanting to get this down to about 7% so that all my abs show and not just the top 4. I am training 5-7 days a week with 30 minutes of cardio after my 1 hour or so muscle group work out. I do not do abs right now becuase I wanted to get the fat down first...any training tweaks to target the area? I am also scared to drop my cals to low becuase I am floating between 167-169lbs and dont want to go any lower in weight..just body fat.. Here is a pic

 

[Caleb's Tree]

I was wondering if anyone has some suggestions of dropping that last bit of fat from the mid section. I keep testing my body fat with two different handhelds and I always register between 9.5% - 11%. I have been working my ass off wanting to get this down to about 7% so that all my abs show and not just the top 4. I am training 5-7 days a week with 30 minutes of cardio after my 1 hour or so muscle group work out. I do not do abs right now becuase I wanted to get the fat down first...any training tweaks to target the area? I am also scared to drop my cals to low becuase I am floating between 167-169lbs and dont want to go any lower in weight..just body fat.. Here is a pic

Just from what I've read, you should be working your abs, so that when you do drop that last little bit of body fat, they are already there.

 

[1tight_tl]

Just from what I've read, you should be working your abs, so that when you do drop that last little bit of body fat, they are already there.

They are there..and if the body fat gets lower they will look great..I am just having a hard time with those last few %'s wich are the hardest

 

[vtzog]

try adding cardio first thing in the morning for 30 min @ 65-70% of your max HR. The same cardio can be done after your weight training. If you go more intense the calories you'll be burning won't come from fat. The easier the cardio the more fat you'll burn, because if you go too hard your body won't be efficient at burning fat. You can actually burn muscle if you go too hard. Abs are made in the kitchen as well so if you eat like crap you'll never get that BF low. 5 meals with at least 20-30g protein(keeping protein high will allow you to retain most if not all of your muscle) or 1-1.5g protein per pound of bodyweight.

 

[GUARDIAN]

2 a day's for cardio and lower the carbs a bit.

 

[1tight_tl]

2 a day's for cardio and lower the carbs a bit.

So maybe once in the morning on a empty stomach and once after work out?

 

[DJLegacy2k1]

Yup!

Im either doing 2 cardio sessions per day, or playing basketball and a cardio session each day. Some days I dont get the 2nd session in if I work till 10pm, but even those days are at least 1 session.

AM/PM is great :-D

-Legacy

 

[GUARDIAN]

So maybe once in the morning on a empty stomach and once after work out?

try to space the 2nd session away from your weights if u can.

i do am cardio on empty and then weights at lunch and then cardio again around 6pm.

 

[xrsist]

agree with guardian, am cardio and lower carbs also up protein

 

[1tight_tl]

try to space the 2nd session away from your weights if u can.

i do am cardio on empty and then weights at lunch and then cardio again around 6pm.

whats the reason for seperating the cardio from the weights on the second session? Not that I am questioning it, I just wanted to understand why..

and how about am cardio on a empty stomach, mid day cardio and then weights at night, because I have a training partner that can only train at night when we get out of work for weights but I can sneak away from work to do cardio in the middle of the day for sure