As hard as it may be to believe, you can successfully and quickly lose unwanted belly fat by simply doing one ten minute workout each day. A lot of people never try to lose weight because they feel that they would need to invest the time and money getting a gym membership or buying expensive fitness equipment.

However, neither of these are a requirement to lose body fat. That being said, there are a few things that you can do that will make or break your weight loss efforts.

3 Tips to Losing Belly Fat with a 10 Minute Workout:

1. Do your workout early in the day.

When working out, even for just ten minutes, your metabolism levels will be temporarily raised. A faster metabolism rate means that you will be burning off calories and stored fat at a quicker pace. Not only that, but this raised metabolism can last for a few hours after your workout. Since your metabolism naturally slows down when you sleep, doing your 10 minute workout close to your bedtime will mean that you won’t be able to take advantage of the higher metabolism boost. Doing your workout earlier in the day will result in you getting the maximum effect of the temporary raised metabolism.

2. Choose weight training exercises over aerobic exercises.

There are three reasons why this is recommended. The first is that weight training exercises burn more calories in the same amount of time as aerobic exercises. The second reason is that the increased metabolism levels last longer after doing a weight training workout. Finally, weight training leads to an increase in muscle mass. The more muscle tissue that you have, the more calories are burned throughout the day.

3. Change your workouts each day.

Muscles tend to learn a workout routine after a while. What this means is that your body, your muscles specifically, learn how to best complete a workout routine using the least amount of work. By changing your 10 minute workout each day, you create something called “muscle confusion,” which means that muscles are never able to adjust to your routine and are constantly working at their maximum levels. An easy way to accomplish muscle confusion is to work out a different muscle group each day. So one day you can do exercises that work out the chest muscles. The next day it may be the leg muscles. The following day it can be the arms muscles.

You can lose that belly fat simply by doing a 10 minute workout each day. Just be sure to do your workouts early in the day, select weight training exercises over aerobics, and cause muscle confusion by working out different muscle groups every day in order to get the most benefits of your workouts.