Will Running Burn Belly Fat and If So, How Much?

Running is probably the most popular cardio workout in the world with millions doing it day by day. Running is done to improve fitness, to help you lose weight, and to lose belly fat.
But will running really burn belly fat, and if so, how much will it burn?
This is a tough question that requires a bit of analysis. There's no doubt that you can lose belly fat by running. This is a cardio activity that certainly burns calories and can help you to create the necessary calorie deficit required for weight and fat loss.
In addition, running is a workout that employs your entire body so it is more strenuous than many other cardio exercises. As long as your eating plan is sensible and balanced, you should see your body fat diminish. However, there's no reason to believe that you will see your belly lose more fat than the rest of your body. This is not likely to happen.
Running, nor any other cardio workout, will not be able to focus fat burning on your abs alone. This is simply not possible. You will lose body fat from all over. However, you will also lose fat from your abs, don't worry about that.
To make running burn more fat in general and belly fat in particular it is important to make this a strenuous workout. You need to make sure you're pushing yourself hard. Otherwise, you will only get mediocre results. Here are a few tips to make running much more intensive and effective:
1. Do some uphill running - Running at even a modest incline can make any running activity that much harder. In fact, I believe that running at a gradient is one of the most effective ways to burn more calories with running.
2. Do intervals - Running at the same pace for 40 minutes is surely better than no running at all but it is far from the most effective way to burn calories. Doing interval training is a much more time efficient way to shed calories and burn off body fat. It can produce shorter and more intensive workouts that will help you to achieve faster results.
3. Do some sprinting at the end of your workouts. This actually works the abs muscles and gives you a short burst of high intensity workout to get you to really push your body.
All in all, running does burn belly fat. Use the tips I've outlined to get the best results.