So you’ve got a great new treadmill for your home gym and you’re getting in shape, but your belly seems to be lagging behind? You might be doing the wrong exercises!
Whether your goal is movie star-six-pack abs or just a trimmer silhouette ahead of summer, if you’re on a mission to lose belly fat and tone your abs, you may not know that the secret to a stronger and slimmer midsection is your treadmill.
While treadmills are often associated with general weight loss goals, as they are a proven cardio-boosting and calorie-burning machine, home fitness experts like SOLE Fitness want you to know that they can be utilized to specifically target your abdominal muscles.
If you’ve got a home treadmill, the good news is you don’t actually need to walk all the way to Timbuktu every day to get the abs you’ve been dreaming of! In fact, you just need to integrate some new strategies into your routine like HIIT or high-intensity interval training principles, incline walking, and brisk and backwards walking.
Now, in order to do this, you’ll need to make sure you get an advanced treadmill that has the right features on offer.
If you’re aiming for a rock-hard core, you’ll need a treadmill that comes with pre-programmed workouts which offer this kind of HIIT training. Plus, if it has other modes like Fat Burn, Cardio, Strength and Hill—which their models do—even better.
You’ll also need a model with robust levels of incline: around 15 is the sweet spot for abs activation. Plus, if you want to target more muscle groups, a treadmill with a decline range is also a great choice.
So you can walk, jog and run comfortably—and in both directions, forwards and backwards—you should also look for a treadmill with a spacious running deck and an ergonomic design.
If you’re still not seeing results, for truly washboard abs, you’ll need to make some general health, well-being, nutrition and fitness changes in tandem with regular treadmill workouts to help you shed extra weight on what is often a stubborn area.
That’s why SOLE Fitness also recommends treadmills that come with fitness apps, like their free SOLE+ app which has been pre-loaded onto their more advanced machines’ LCD touchscreen fitness command centers, but can also be accessed on any smartphone or device. It features both a host of abs-toning workouts that utilize their treadmills and no-equipment abs workouts that you can perform with no equipment and at any fitness level.
Losing belly fat and toning your abs is easier than ever, with new resources designed to help you achieve your dream look.