If you’re trying to lose stubborn belly fat but nothing seems to work, then this is a video you can’t afford to skip. In this video, I’m going to walk you through 4 brutally honest questions that most people avoid answering—but until you do, that fat around your waist isn’t going anywhere. Answer them truthfully, and you’ll finally unlock what’s been holding you back from getting lean.
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Here’s the reality. Losing fat is both incredibly simple and frustratingly difficult at the same time. The science behind fat loss is clear and has been for decades. The problem isn’t knowing what to do—it’s consistently doing it well enough for long enough to see results. And that’s where most people fall apart.
So before you start blaming genetics or calling your belly fat “stubborn,” you need to take a hard look in the mirror. Not to judge how you look—but to honestly evaluate what you’ve been doing.
The first question you have to ask yourself is this: is your belly fat actually stubborn…or is your overall body fat still just too high? Because those are two completely different situations. If you’re still carrying a higher body fat percentage overall, then the issue isn’t stubborn fat—it’s inconsistency. Tightening up your habits will get you moving in the right direction fast.
But if you truly feel like you’re doing everything right and still can’t get rid of that last layer, then we have to dig deeper. That’s where these next questions come in.
Let’s start with alcohol. I get it—this isn’t just about drinking for the sake of it. It’s social. It’s part of how people relax and connect. But you can’t ignore what it does. Liquid calories add up quickly, and alcohol directly interferes with your body’s ability to burn fat efficiently. That doesn’t mean you can never drink—but it does mean you need to decide what matters more to you. Getting lean…or maintaining that habit. There’s no right answer—but there is an honest one.
Next comes nutrition. And this is where most people think they’re doing better than they actually are. Fat loss requires a calorie deficit. There’s no way around that. But how you create that deficit matters. Extreme diets, cutting out entire food groups, or trying to crash your way lean almost always backfire.
If you believe you’re in a deficit and still not losing belly fat, then you need to break this down further. First—how clean is your diet, really? Not what you think it is, but what it actually is. If that checks out, then look at your portions. Because even clean food in the wrong amounts will stall progress. And if that still isn’t the issue, then you’re left with one final truth—your consistency isn’t where it needs to be. This is where cheat meals quietly turn into cheat days…or worse.
From there, we have to look at your training. Because diet alone will never be enough if your goal is to get lean and stay lean. You need to train—and not just with endless cardio. You need resistance training to build muscle. Muscle is what drives your metabolism higher and allows your body to burn more calories even at rest.
A solid plan should include weight training at least 3 to 5 times per week, with an emphasis on intensity and total workload. Adding in things like barbell complexes can help you increase calorie burn while still building athletic, functional muscle.
And finally, we come to ab training. Not because it’s going to magically burn belly fat—it won’t. But because developing your abs creates a visual payoff that reinforces everything else you’re doing. When you start to see those muscles come in, it builds momentum. And momentum is what keeps you consistent.
At the end of the day, getting rid of belly fat isn’t about secrets or shortcuts. It’s about honesty. Brutal honesty. Once you identify where you’re falling short, you can fix it—and when you fix it, the results follow.
If you’re looking for a step-by-step program that takes all of this guesswork out and shows you exactly how to train and eat to lose belly fat, build lean muscle, and get in your best shape ever, head to athleanx.com and find the program that matches your goals.
And if you want more videos that break down fat loss, ab training, and performance the right way—make sure you subscribe to the channel, turn on notifications, and never miss a new video when it drops.
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Segment 1 (00:00 - 05:00)
Drinking is one of those things that not a lot of us want to give up entirely. It is a factor and it's a big one. What's up guys? You're Cavalier Athlete X. com. So, you got some stubborn body fat, especially right here around the midsection. You want to get rid of it and all you're going to need is a mirror. I want you to look in the mirror cuz be able to answer the four questions that I'm going to ask you honestly. What this is, it's a lack of doing the right things often enough. And if you do the right things more often, you can go from here to here. And likewise, if you did the right things really often, almost all the time, you could do this. But, I talked about this before. This isn't what everybody wants. And I'll give you the real honest answer why. Cuz not a lot of people want to do everything it takes to get here. In other words, they don't want to have the level of consistency and commitment and maybe foregoing some of the other things that are required to get here. This might be good enough. But, the good thing is you're going to be able to tell what you need to do to get to whatever level it is that you're looking for. And you may not have to. Again, it depends on where you are in terms of where you're starting and where your goal is. The question, where do you sit right now? Because it is a factor and it's a big one. If your answer's no, well then congratulations. This is not one of the issues that's causing you to have any remaining fat that you're trying to get rid of. But, the answer is yes, well then you got to ask yourself a few more questions and that is how many times per week are you drinking? Is it one to two times or is it more than two times? Right? Then the next question I ask is how much each time? And be honest. Again, no one's listening to your answers other than you and I talking here. But, how much each time? Let's say you do it one to two times a week and you have one to two glasses of wine or mixed drinks or maybe two to three beers at a sitting. That's about four to six beers in a week or maybe two to four glasses of wine in a week. Now, is that okay or not okay? This is okay if you're trying to get to that level of let's say a flat stomach. But, if you want to get to that ultra ripped condition, then this is not going to be okay. If it's more than this, then again, it's not okay even to get yourself down to that flat stomach. If you're doing it more than two times a week, well guess what has to happen. If it's more than two times a week, well then the consumption levels have to go down. It can't be up to two glasses or three beers. It's got to come down to one glass of wine and maybe two beers at most at a sitting. So, in total over the course of a week, you're ingesting less alcohol. And of course, if it's more than above, then it's not okay again. But, the fact is here guys, let's say you're at a given level of body fat right now and you are drinking. If you're trying to go lower, then go lower on your consumption of alcohol. There's no instance where drinking here is going to be beneficial to you in the long run if you're trying to decrease your levels of body fat. So, the next thing we have to focus on is actually very closely related to drinking and it's the other stuff that we put in our bodies and we want to look for a caloric deficit cuz we know that in order to lose body fat, we have to create a caloric deficit. However, my first question would be to you is are you or are you not creating one? If the answer is yes, it's not an instant congratulations because I have something listed over here and that is are you doing it responsibly or irresponsibly? There's a big difference guys. Irresponsible is crash diets. Is consuming a very low amount of calories. Is excluding certain macronutrients because you've heard they're bad for you, i. e. carbohydrates. Long-term, that's not going to work and long-term it's going to do more irreversible damage and more for setting your mind in a wrong place in terms of how you look at food in an unhealthy way, that's going to cause you to not succeed. So, in that case, it's not okay. If it's responsible, meaning two or three hundred up to five hundred calorie deficit per day through your intake of food, then I would say that's okay and you're doing the right thing in your pursuit of a flatter stomach or more ripped condition. If the answer is no, I have three follow-up questions. The first one is are you eating clean? And any trainer out there who's ever had to ask this question has probably heard the answer many, many times before and that is yes, of course I'm eating clean. And then my next question would be, well really? And then the answer is yes, of course I'm eating clean. And then my answer would be like, no, but seriously, we're friends. You can tell me. Eating clean is actually eating healthy. And eating healthy is something that you do on a regular basis. It's not something that you're doing temporarily or that you even put a name or a label on it. You just do it and you eat more healthily and you understand what foods comprise a healthy diet. So, when we're there, then you got to talk about portion control cuz if you are eating really healthily, you're eating the right foods and you're not excluding macronutrients like we talked about before, then that's portion control. How big are your portions? And you know how big they are. Are they bad or they good? Right? If they're bad, you got to fix it. You got to stop eating two plates of everything. You got to look at how you can divide your plate responsibly. I put a whole video together on how to divide your plate so that you can know you're getting it right every single time. I'll actually link that video for you. This is what it looks like. I'll make sure I link it for you at the end of this one so you can get a grasp on how you can divide your plate and get this right
Segment 2 (05:00 - 10:00)
every single time. It's actually very, very easy to do. But, let's say you're doing that right. Coming down to this last element here and that is your consistency levels. And this is where I think things tend to fall apart. But, you have to be willing to answer the question and define for yourself how low you want to go. Where do you want to ultimately be? So, I say what's consistency? Consistency means how often are you straying from your healthy eating plan? If it comes down to having a cheat meal, I'd say you're okay. You're certainly okay to get yourself down from that belly to that flat stomach. Absolutely okay to do that. Can you have a cheat meal every single week and get down to that ultra ripped condition? Sometimes if you're doing everything else right. And that's a big if. The thing is, you're more likely to get to that ultra ripped condition if you're taking those cheat meals down to let's say every other week or certainly once a month. Okay? Now, if it's a cheat day, can you get down to that flat stomach? I have an issue here. I don't think you really can get down to that flat stomach consistently by doing that, by having a cheat day every single week. You can do a lot of damage in a single cheat day that can undo a hell of a lot of good that you've been accumulating over the course of the rest of that week. And finally, if you're having a cheat year, my question would be, are you Jessie? I mean, do you ever eat right? Cuz honestly guys, if you're never willing to have consistency here, then we already know what the issue is. You're never going to maximize the results that you see there and be doing everything you can possibly be doing if you're not supplementing your training along with your nutritional improvements. The first thing I'm going to start with is your cardio and condition cuz a lot of people will do this. They get a little bit less food than they're taking in. They're creating a caloric deficit and then they're jumping on an elliptical and they're trying to burn a few extra calories. Why is that never the most successful way to do this? Because you're not building muscle doing that. And building muscle is going to be your absolute best friend when it comes to creating an easier job for your body to get to lower levels of body fat and most importantly to maintaining it. Muscle being much more active tissue is going to metabolically help you even at rest to get to that lower body fat level and maintain it and even go beyond what it is you thought you were capable of. Cardio and conditioning, while important for your heart, isn't necessarily the best option. However, if the answer is no, I don't do anything or even yes, I do cardio and conditioning, my next question always becomes what's your body fat level? Because your body fat level is going to give me the best recommendation from there. If you're at less than 15% for men or less than 25% for women, then I would actually say to you if you want to make some additional drops in body fat levels, increase your cardio and conditioning to two to four times per week. However, if you're above 15% for men or maybe even 20% for men and you're above 25% or 30% for women, I'm not necessarily recommending that you focus here. I'm not saying don't do this. I'm just saying this is not going to have the biggest impact for the two reasons I just said. Number one, nutrition is always going to be your bigger play here and number two, you should be doing this. Prioritizing nutrition and weight training. Okay? Because weight training should always come as your focus when you're try when you're at higher body fat levels and you're trying to get down. Your cardio then come in second to this, okay? But again, weight training, yes. How often? How many times per week? Less than three times? Up it. Up it more. Three to five times is where I want to see you be. Everybody. If the answer is no, of course, start three to five times per week. Then we go over here and this is kind of the holy grail here where we kind of get to a chance to mix the two and that is complexes. Are you doing complexes? Yes, great. No, start two to three times per week. So, the complexes are where we combine compound movements into one flow so that we can do like a barbell row into a hang clean into an overhead press into a front rack reverse lunge, things like that where we can actually move a lot of muscles in one coordinated movement flow. You're going to build muscle here and you're going to burn calories and it fits into this realm of weight training and it fits in nicely inside of this three to five time a week training. So, even if you're doing standard weight training and strength training, you can fit your complexes into those workouts, too. Which brings me to my fourth and final question here and that is about your ab training. If you do this guys, again, if your first answer is no, I don't do any of it, then my answer would be, hey, start now. And it's not just that, not just your rectus abdominis, your six-pack, but it's your entire core that I want you to work, which I'll get into in a second. If the answer is yes, I do it, then my next question would be, how many times per week do you do it? And if you say three or less, then my recommendation is going to be to do more than three. You see, I believe in even up to daily ab training for no more than 10 minutes at a time is incredibly impactful when it comes to losing body fat. You're probably thinking, wait a second. There's no such Jeff, what have you lost your mind? No, I'm not talking about spot reduction of body fat. I'm talking about the visual impact and the
Segment 3 (10:00 - 12:00)
side effect that training these muscles will have on your overall outlook as you attempt to get closer to that goal of yours, whatever it might have been, the flat stomach or incredibly ripped. You see, because at even higher levels of body fat, when you train the muscles underneath, you will actually see them. And you can see the upper abs. You can start to see the upper obliques, but you're not going to see anything if you haven't taken the time to be dedicated to training those muscles. So, I want to see increased the consistency here because not only that, I found a second effect from doing this. When you can commit to just a 5-minute routine or 7-minute routine, we've got plenty of them up on YouTube here. That sometimes is the impetus to get you going. You're like, "You know what? I can do this for 7 minutes. I've done it now 10 days in a row. I've done it 20 for a month straight. I like to see the results I'm actually seeing here. I'm getting encouraged by this. " And that in and of itself provides additional motivation to allow you get the other components here right. You're starting to eat well more consistently. You're starting to increase your training. You're starting to do all those things right. You're decreasing your drinking. Everything starts to fall in place. Do not neglect the importance of separate ab training when it comes to the overall approach to getting to those lower levels of body fat. So guys, remember when it comes to dropping body fat levels, the most important thing you can do is look in the mirror. Like I said, not to identify where you're having a problem. We probably already know that. I'm talking about to answer these questions honestly because it's only then that you can actually start to make progress. We all have areas that we need to work on, guys, me included. The thing is though, you got to get honest with yourself about where it is that you're falling short right now because when you do, and you can start to address those areas, that's when you start to make some big progress. go from here to here, and that's where you can go from there to here. It's all a matter of the levels of sacrifice that you're willing to make and the level of consistency you're able to do that in. If you're looking for a program, guys, that makes this a lot easier to follow than you think, we include meal plans and step-by-step workouts, you can get them all over at athlenex. com. If you're looking for a program that will help you with the core training aspect of it, we have our core four abs program. Again, that's available at athlenex. com. The fact is, guys, I'm just looking for you to become more consistent in what you're doing right now to get to a better place than you are right now. If you found the video helpful, leave your comments and thumbs up below. Let me know what else I can do for you in the days and weeks ahead and I'll make sure I do those. And if you haven't already, guys, click subscribe and turn on your notifications so you never miss a new video when we put one out. All right, guys. See you soon.
