Sporting a half keg on your waist isn’t just unsightly – it’s dangerous. Carrying too much abdominal fat greatly increases your risk for heart attack and stroke.

Pure and simple, you need to cut back on the nightly brews (or other calorie sources) and do more cardio work and resistance training to melt that blubber. Add this exercise to hasten the coming-out party for your abs.

The lose beer belly knockout move: Functional woodchop with FreeMotion machine.

1. Stand in a semisquat position with your feet shoulder-width apart and pointed straight ahead. Lift your chest, and grasp the pulley on a cross-cable machine.

2. Hold the cable with both hands at the level of the knee closest to the weight stack with your arms fully extended. Draw in your navel and tuck in your chin. [source: You24]