CrossFit is a great way to lose weight and burn calories, but it's not the only factor when it comes to reducing belly fat. While high-intensity interval training can help you burn calories and fat, reducing belly fat efficiently ultimately comes down to your nutrition. Combining cardiovascular, high-intensity and strength training, CrossFit meets all the requirements for an effective workout. Cardio and high-intensity workouts will immediately impact your calorie balance, as they will burn a lot of calories.
Strength or resistance training works a little differently. You won't burn as many calories in a single resistance training session compared to a cardio session, but you'll build muscle mass. And more muscle means more work for your body, even when you're not doing anything. In theory, CrossFit is a great way to lose weight, but it will always depend on how you compensate for all those efforts.
Hard workouts can lead to the assumption that you have burned a lot of calories and, therefore, it doesn't matter what you eat. But that pizza will later exceed the calories burned by a lot and prevent you from losing weight. Even after that intense CrossFit workout. Unless you're training like a Games athlete, CrossFit alone won't make your tummy go from a lump to a cheeky six-pack.
If you're a busy person trying to lose weight with exercise, short workouts can help you keep your exercise program going. But if you want to reduce belly fat efficiently, it's important to take a closer look at your breakdown of carbohydrates, proteins and fats and determine if there is something in excess. The drawbacks of trying to lose weight with CrossFit are an important consideration when deciding if CrossFit is right for you. Over the years, the fitness industry has tried to do a lot of things to lose belly fat: explode it, burn it, hit it, crush it, eliminate it and reduce it.
But according to Sam Orme, a former CrossFit Games competitor and owner of CrossFit Virtuosity in Brooklyn, reducing belly fat ultimately comes down to how you eat.
