The age old "You can't target areas of fat, lifting" BS!

ItsAllMental819

You can call BS all you want but this is definitely a myth! It's impossible to spot reduce as many have already stated. If you want studies just Google it and you'll find numerous ones... This is exploited by several advertisers trying to peddle products like the ab belt lol. Next your gonna tell me muscle weighs more than fat and cardio burns fat(although cardio will increase metabolism & help put you in a caloric deficit state which will burn fat). I think your friend just has less fat on his shoulders, which many people do, and since that's all he trains he built delts.

Z_I_L_L_A

Deadlifting_Away_Doritos wrote: »

I saw this obese man at the gym a year ago and he liked to hang out on the ab machine a lot. His belly was huge. He would also do planks and sit-ups as well. Seen him last week and his abs are totally chiseled but still obese everywhere else. I'm sure everyone has seen an example like this before.

Lmao

richln

AnvilHead wrote: »

Deadlifting_Away_Doritos wrote: »

I saw this obese man at the gym a year ago and he liked to hang out on the ab machine a lot. His belly was huge. He would also do planks and sit-ups as well. Seen him last week and his abs are totally chiseled but still obese everywhere else. I'm sure everyone has seen an example like this before.

Nope, never seen anything like it or even heard of it. And I wouldn't believe it unless I saw it with my own two eyes.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2028752/Celebrity-Big-Brother-2011-Darryn-Lyons-shows-phony-washboard-stomach.html

You can buy abs if you want.

sijomial

ninerbuff wrote: »

Need2Exerc1se wrote: »

BishopLord wrote: »

Need2Exerc1se wrote: »

CipherZero wrote: »

The great thing about factual information is our beliefs have no bearing on their truth.

What is the "fact" based on? How was it proved?

Based on the fact that when you get rid of body fat through working out, it comes from all over the body, not just a specific area. For example, say you only did recumbent bike for 30 minutes a day. Sure, your legs will get firmer, but you're still using other muscles, and your body temperature has risen, resulting in fat melting away not only in your legs, but your glutes, abs, chest, back, and lastly the arms.

I know the theory. But what proof is there that different exercises don't cause more fat from certain areas to be used? It's the proof I'm interested in. Genuinely interested.

If it makes you feel better, there was a study done in 2007 where if one did 120 minutes of leg extensions continually, they can loose about .007 ounces of fat on their quad. So there is proof it can be done. It's just not that efficient versus just eating a calorie deficit.

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That was quite interesting and I made a connection to what I see amongst my cycling peer group where it's really common to see very lean, muscular, defined legs on people who have a moderate to generous covering of fat elsewhere.
BTW - my peer group on Audax events tends to be a demographic of the older, now more recreational rider but with many years of serious cycling miles behind them. One guy doing a 24hr event stood out in particular - big beer belly but legs like gnarled driftwood.

If you work out the "reps" on a 100 mile ride at cadence of 80 that's 28,800 for a six hour ride so if there is some tiny localised fat burning going on that's a powerful multiplier.
Multiply that again by my 4000+ annual mileage and that's a lot of muscle contractions.

So not really comparable to someone trying to "burn belly fat" with a couple of dozen sit ups.

My legs are relatively lean compared to the rest of me, whether that's localised fat burn or just genetics - who knows? Or frankly cares!

trigden1991

-335lbs
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Pick one.


Your threads never fail to amuse me @Z_I_L_L_A .

bagge72

AnvilHead wrote: »

Deadlifting_Away_Doritos wrote: »

I saw this obese man at the gym a year ago and he liked to hang out on the ab machine a lot. His belly was huge. He would also do planks and sit-ups as well. Seen him last week and his abs are totally chiseled but still obese everywhere else. I'm sure everyone has seen an example like this before.

Nope, never seen anything like it or even heard of it. And I wouldn't believe it unless I saw it with my own two eyes.

Only time I've ever seen something close to that was roid gut

Deadlifting_Away_Doritos

AnvilHead wrote: »

Deadlifting_Away_Doritos wrote: »

I saw this obese man at the gym a year ago and he liked to hang out on the ab machine a lot. His belly was huge. He would also do planks and sit-ups as well. Seen him last week and his abs are totally chiseled but still obese everywhere else. I'm sure everyone has seen an example like this before.

Nope, never seen anything like it or even heard of it. And I wouldn't believe it unless I saw it with my own two eyes.

Lol! I was being facetious.

Z_I_L_L_A

If we used our bellies to crawl around where would our excess fat accumulate? Would it end up in an area unused with less muscle?

This started out as kinda joking around. So I'll keep it going.

Can I start another thread and say muscle weighs more than fat,lol.