How To Lose a Muffin Top & Belly Fat Fast With This 2 Exercise Workout

Could this be the recipe for deflating the muffin top?  It’s important to note that the exercises you choose and the effort you put into them really matter. Instead of treadmill-trotting and sit-ups, I recommend high-intensity workouts.

If winter weather has turned your six-pack into a muffin top, now’s the time to start shedding that bulge for spring. This workout combines some of the most effective moves you can do to work deep into your core waistline muscles to develop strong, flat, and pulled-in abs that look great both in and out of your clothes.

Combine it with an all-over strength and cardio routine, and you’ll be zipping up those jeans with ease in no time. We have put together this hard-core high-intensity workout.

The Circuit:

• You will need 2 small towels and 2 dumbbells (3–5 pounds).
• Perform the exercises in the following order, one after another, without pausing in between.
• When you’ve completed all 6 exercises, rest for 90 seconds.
• Do the entire circuit 1–3 times.

Dumbbell Squat to Shoulder-Press Rotation:

This full-body calorie-burning move works not just the abs and obliques but also the glutes, hips and shoulders.

How to:

• With dumbbells at your side, bend into a squat, pushing your hips backward as if you were sitting in a chair.
• Keep your back straight and your abs engaged.
• As you raise your hips to come to standing, press the dumbbells over your head, rotating the torso toward the right, using the side of your abdominals.
• This should be one fluid movement.
• Lower the dumbbells and bend into a squat again. Repeat the shoulder press to the left side.
• Alternate sides for 12 total reps.

Towel Mountain Climbers:

The most common mistake people make with mountain climbers is to roll up their whole body, meaning they lift their hips and throw their weight forward on to their arms. They really feel it in their shoulders, when the abs should be doing all the work. Putting towels under your feet, as in this move, will isolate the ab muscles and keep your back flat to help you maintain proper form.

How to:

• Start in a high plank position with your palms on the ground underneath your shoulders, arms straight, core engaged, with a small towel under the toes of each foot.
• Use your abdominals to bring your left knee in toward your right elbow. This should be a fluid, controlled movement. You should feel the twist in your lower abs, not as much in your back or hips.
• Keep your shoulders squared.
• Return to starting position, with both feet behind you.
• Repeat by bringing the right knee to the left elbow.
• Alternate sides for 12 total reps.