Can you lose stomach fat by weightlifting?

I'm currently working on reducing my stomach fat so that it's all flat and I was wondering..if I do enough weightlifting on my upper body, will this burn the calories/fat in my stomach too?|||there is nothing that can spot reduce just the fat in any section of your body. significant weight lifting without cardio can make you look bigger. this might be nice in your arms and shoulders, but if you build nice big abs and have them hidden under fat, they'll actually push the fat out and possibly make your belly bigger. You need to mix weight training with cardio and a good diet. There's no quick solution.|||I'm sure weight lifting can help|||prob some...but it'll mostly just build muscle|||Weight training is excellent for burning body fat. Studies have shown increases in metabolic rate of as much as 4-7% over a 24-hour period from weight training (also known as the 'afterburn' effect). Muscle also burns calories even when you're doing nothing.





Focus your weight training on major muscle groups such as the chest, back and legs for maximum fat loss.





Here's a good site on fat loss and abdominal training progam:


http://www.shedthefat.com/losebellyfat.p鈥?/a>|||Using weights will only affect certain parts of the body. Do crunches every morning and you should see results, I have tried it and I lost and few inches in about 1-2 weeks.|||1. You must be burning enough calories to reach your fat-burning level...try aerobic (heart rate up) workouts also...jogging, biking, swimming, and then weightraining, or you won't dip into that extra stored energy


2. Concentrate on tightening your abs while lifting (as a stablizer muscle group)


3. Do ab workout also...you can do situps while hold a weight, or any variation of situps/crunches.|||You cannot spot reduce to lose weight solely in the stomach area. When the weight comes off, it will come off from all over the body. The stomach is one of the last palces that you will loose body fat. Weightlifting will help you to loose weight by speeding up the metabolism. Muscle burns more calories than fat does. The muscles that are going to burn more calories and end in weight loss is the chest and leg muscles because these are two of the biggest muscles on the body,


Sit-ups and Crunches does not burn fat from around the stomach. They simply tone the ab muscle but if the abs are covered by fat then the abs are not going to be very visible. If you want to loose that belly fat then look into your diet and implement some cardio into your exercise routine. At the current time I am doing a plan from menshealth.com. You can find this and other plans at


http://www.menshealth.com/cda/article.do鈥?/a>





There are many, many resources on menshealth.com and askmen.com to help you reach your goals.