How to burn belly fat fast: Three easy home exercises to help you get ripped abs

Many fitness fanatics long for washboard abs, but if you’re doing the wrong exercises you could be wasting your time.

Firstly, if you are overweight you will have to lose overall body fat before you see any abs poking though.

High-intensity cardio workouts like skipping and sprint intervals are great for ramping up fat burn and aiding weight loss.

But to create rock-hard abs, there are certain moves you need to perfect.

Here are three of the best exercises you can do with no equipment at all:

1. Burpees

This is a great move for a full-body workout. Burpees work almost every muscle in your body, so are a great addition for fat-burn.

The exercise involves going from a push-up to a jump and back to a push-up position.

A recent study by the American College of Sports Medicine found doing 10 reps of burpees is as effective as a 30-second all-out sprint.

How to do it:

Stand with your feet just under shoulder width apart, bend knees and reach down and place hands on the floor so that you are sitting on your heels in a crouch position of a squat thrust.
Transfer all your weight on to your hands.
Thrust legs out and back as a normal squat thrust.
From the squatting position jump up with hands above your head, feet leaving the floor before hitting the ground again and returning to the squatting position and start again.

2. Mountain Climbers

Another simple workout you can do at home, mountain climbers are highly effective at burning calories.

This move involves getting into the plank position and then bringing one knee at a time in towards your chest.

Personal trainer Ivan Burev told the Daily Star Online: “A compound, functional exercise like Mountain Climbers can be performed literally anywhere using your own bodyweight, and it offers a variety of alternatives and progressions for all levels."

How to do it:

Start in a plank position with your wrist directly under your shoulders. Then, spread your fingers and keep your arms strong while pulling in your stomach keeping your body solid and legs straight behind you.
Once in position, pull your right knee into your chest while keeping your core tight and not moving the upper body.
When you push the right knee back, pull the left knee into your chest and repeat. Do this for 30 seconds and rest for 20 seconds. Repeat three to five times.

3. Crunches

Crunches are one of the best exercises for sculpting the abdomen. As well as working the stomach, this move also strengthens muscles in the lower back, giving you greater balance and stability.

How to do it:

Lie on your back with your knees bent and feet flat on the floor, hip-width apart.
Place your hands behind your head so your thumbs are behind your ears.Hold your elbows out to the sides but rounded slightly in.
Tilt your chin slightly, leaving a few inches of space between your chin and your chest.
Gently pull your abdominals inward.
Curl up and forward so that your head, neck, and shoulder blades lift off the floor.
Hold for a moment at the top of the movement and then lower slowly back down.

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