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^{Written By Kris Einboden, GM and Professional Coach at The Six Pack Dad Tribe}

Researchers recently discovered an exercise that helps shed belly fat and reveal those long-lost abs.

Previously, experts thought this wasn’t possible.

“You can’t target belly fat through exercise,” they said.

But nobody thought of this exercise.

It’s an exercise like no other, with wild potential to reveal your abs.

The diet exercise.

LOL.

I wish you could burn belly fat directly through exercise. Unfortunately, you can’t. No amount of crunches will melt away the fat covering your abs.

If you want to lose belly fat, you need to address your nutrition. 

Here’s how this works: when you diet properly and achieve a caloric deficit, your body is forced to use stored body fat for fuel. When this happens, your body pulls fat from fat stores across the entire body causing fat to come off in thin sheets, much like peeling an onion. For most people, you will see abdominal definition around 15% body fat. This...

^{Written by Kris Einboden, GM and Professional Coach at The Six Pack Dad Tribe}

If you're over 40 and trying to lose fat, you may believe that you need to cut carbs. But when most busy professional dads make this common mistake, it almost always backfires. 

One of the biggest reasons guys cut carbs is because they associate carbs with the foods that caused them to gain weight: bread, pizza, pastries, chips, cakes, cookies, sugar, and other sweets.

But what makes these foods problematic isn’t carbs, but rather the combination of both carbs and fat. This duo is what makes foods extremely calorie-dense, delicious, and therefore easy to overconsume and gain weight on. In other words, carbs get blamed for what carbs + fat do. 

Reducing these foods undoubtedly helps people lose fat, but not all carbs need to be swept under the rug with them. In fact, the right carbohydrate sources can make fat loss easier while improving the overall quality of your diet. 

So what makes a good carbohydrate...

^{Written By Kris Einboden, GM and Professional Coach at The Six Pack Dad Tribe}

If you’re working out 5–7 days a week and your waist hasn’t changed in months, hitting your health goals probably doesn’t mean cramming in another workout.

We talk to busy dads every week who are doing everything “right” to get in shape. They’re:

• Consistent in the gym
• Doing both strength training and cardio
• Trying to eat well
• Yet the scale hasn’t moved in months.

If you’re on this frustrating plateau, here are 3 reasons why your hard work may not be paying off like you expect:

1. Exercise Ramps Up Your Appetite

Exercise is great for you, but it comes with some unfortunate physical and mental drawbacks. Physically, it increases your hunger, which actively works against fat loss. In order to lose fat, you need to eat less. But eating less becomes nearly impossible when you’re hungry because hunger drives us to eat. You only have so much willpower when you’re hungry. 

Furthermore, exercise drive...

^{Written by Kris Einboden, GM and Professional Coach at The Six Pack Dad Tribe}

You probably know someone who can eat literally anything and not put on weight. On the flip side, you also probably know someone who seems to gain weight at the drop of a hat. Why this occurs isn’t a mystery, yet most people think it is. I am here today to tell you exactly how to become that person that can literally eat anything and not gain weight.

Contrary to popular belief, those who gain weight easily are typically not genetically doomed with a slow metabolism. In fact, most people’s metabolisms are pretty similar (most guys on average burn around 2,500 cals per day) and remain consistent across their lifetime, until about the age of 65, where everyone’s metabolism naturally starts to drop. Your metabolism isn’t the problem, so what is?

#1: You’re Overeating and Not Realizing It

The first problem is you are overeating and not realizing it. After coaching hundreds of people in person and online over t...

Written By Kris Einboden, GM and Professional Coach at The Six Pack Dad Tribe

Every day, men come to us frustrated. They exercise consistently, try their best to eat "clean," but still can’t seem to shed that last layer of stubborn belly fat.

After coaching over 300 clients, we’ve found that most guys are usually just missing a few crucial pieces of the puzzle. Once they add in those missing pieces, the results finally follow.

If you’re working hard but the belly fat isn’t budging, it almost always comes down to one of the following three common blind spots:

1. You Have Way More Fat to Lose Than You Think

Rule of thumb: Whatever amount of fat you think you need to lose, add 10 to 20+ pounds to it.

Almost every client we work with hits their initial "dream weight" only to realize they don’t look as lean as they envisioned. To get that defined look they are looking for, most of our guys end up reaching weights they haven't seen since high school, college, or their wedding day.