In this article I am going to show you that your body weight is the best exercise tool you need to lose those last inches of belly fat in as little as 90 days.

If you start to train using body weight exercises, not only will your workouts be faster and simpler to do, but you will also be able to vary the intensity and duration of the exercises with no cost impact to you. If, on the other hand you do not start using body weight exercises to help you lose belly fat, you will most probably not see any progress in your fat loss goals and will continue to spend money on ineffective gym workouts.

Why is your body weight so effective as a fat loss tool?

The primary reason is that you can readily adapt your body position to make any standard exercise harder, much more challenging and at the same time focused on your core muscle groups. You can do this in such as way as to mimic some of the best gym equipment.

You can also do it no matter how much you weigh. Obviously if you consider yourself to be overweight you can lessen the intensity of some exercises, but you will also know what is the right limit for you to push to. If not, get some advice before you start.

The second reason is psychological. When you start to train using your body weight, and when you start to see the return due to the difficulty in some positions, either due to improved balance or greater repetitions, you get a burst of excitement and creativity. You will start to adapt and think outside the box when it comes to training.

This improvisation is critical to how you lose belly fat, as it is a key component in keeping you motivated to exercise. Think about how you do the same gym routines week in week out and see how effective they are at motivating you or losing belly fat? Now think how it would feel to be able to exercise anywhere without restriction and know that it is burning your body fat.

You can do body weight workouts in a hotel room, in the park, in the front room or on a boat. You can also adapt your surroundings to help.

The kind of body weight exercises to do start from the simple everyday exercises that we all had to do in physical education class at school. These can be:

• Push-ups

• Sit-ups

• Star Jumps

• Lunges

Take push-ups for example. You can make these harder by elevating your legs or by raising one leg up behind you as you do a push-up. You can also do side push-ups or if you are particularly adventurous, one-arm push-ups.

You can, and should, vary the intensity of your body weight exercises, either doing high intensity interval training, or slow body tension exercises, where you hold for a few seconds for every repetition. This helps build strength endurance.

You do not need to use any weights, though if you want to be creative you can. However, by incorporating body weight exercises into your workout program, instead of doing specialised gym classes with fancy shiny new equipment, you will get all the benefits, in fact, more benefits without the hassle of either the cost or making the time for the class.

If you keep using these exercises you will see that your belly fat, and all body fat, start to reduce, provided of course you are eating correctly. You need to combine the two for effective fat loss.