Spot Reducing

saundraxo

I KNOW you cant spot reduce. But is there really no way to lose arm fat? All I have is ONE 8lbs dumbell that I do tricep curls with and its not doing crap. I bump it up 10 every week. All I have is a treadmill. Its under arm fat

Buff_Man

Well tricep curls will develop your tricep but it doesn't matter if it's covered in fat. So you need to be in a calorie deficit for at least a month to lose a noticeable amount of weight. You could do HIIT on your treadmill 3 or 4 times a week and that should also help. People hold fat in different places, it will come off but it will take time.

saundraxo

Buff_Man wrote: »

Well tricep curls will develop your tricep but it doesn't matter if it's covered in fat. So you need to be in a calorie deficit for at least a month to lose a noticeable amount of weight. You could do HIIT on your treadmill 3 or 4 times a week and that should also help. People hold fat in different places, it will come off but it will take time.

My intentions were to do HIIT on my treadmill. Unfortunately I misunderstood the size of it and endes up getting a small compact treadmill instead of a larger one so Id have room for it. I can very fast walk but cant Sprint jog or run. The highest i can go it 5.5 without me flying off since im short. So yesterday i did

5 mins of speed 4
5 mins of speed 5.5
5 mins of 5
5 mins of 4.5
5 mins of 5
5 mins of 4

I tried. I mean id THINK it did something cuz if not then I was busting bullets for nothing

saundraxo

My body is weird.
Its lower abdomen
Lower arm
Then theres usually a curve women have on their butt that starts their back to their butt but mine is a little chunk of fat. Im convinced itll never go away. Idk whats up with my calories

vanityy99

saundraxo wrote: »

My body is weird.
Its lower abdomen
Lower arm
Then theres usually a curve women have on their butt that starts their back to their butt but mine is a little chunk of fat. Im convinced itll never go away. Idk whats up with my calories

How tall are you and how much do you weight right now?

You probably just have to lose more weight (fat)

saundraxo

vanityy99 wrote: »

saundraxo wrote: »

My body is weird.
Its lower abdomen
Lower arm
Then theres usually a curve women have on their butt that starts their back to their butt but mine is a little chunk of fat. Im convinced itll never go away. Idk whats up with my calories

How tall are you and how much do you weight right now?

You probably just have to lose more weight (fat)

4"11 and Im 181
Goal is 150
I lost 8lbs last month cuz I had a Bet going to eat subway only lmao I won.

ninerbuff

Fat on your body is reduced ONE main way.......................expending more calories than you consume. Doesn't matter if it's HIIT, weight lifting, cardio, etc. The thing is that you lose body fat systematically. So if you lose 1%, it comes from all over the body and not areas you try to target.

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kimny72

saundraxo wrote: »

vanityy99 wrote: »

saundraxo wrote: »

My body is weird.
Its lower abdomen
Lower arm
Then theres usually a curve women have on their butt that starts their back to their butt but mine is a little chunk of fat. Im convinced itll never go away. Idk whats up with my calories

How tall are you and how much do you weight right now?

You probably just have to lose more weight (fat)

4"11 and Im 181
Goal is 150
I lost 8lbs last month cuz I had a Bet going to eat subway only lmao I won.

So you still have a ways to go. You just need to keep losing weight until it decides to come off where you want it to, and that takes a calorie deficit. Strength training can change your shape and help you look better at whatever size, but losing fat is a long term and often frustrating process caused by your deficit.

Check out the Most Helpful Posts threads pinned to the top of each sub-forum, lots of great info there.

AnnPT77

Are you sure it's all arm fat? Many women mis-identify relaxed triceps muscles as fat or loose skin. (I'm not saying you have zero arm fat, but suggesting you may have less than you think. Many women do.)

Raise your arm so your upper arm is above shoulder level, bend tightly at the elbow, curl the wrist toward your forearm, and tighten up everything on your arm, especially the upper back part of the arm (triceps), flexing like a bodybuilder. Get it as tight as you can. Anything that firms up is muscle, not fat.

To make it clearer, take your opposite hand, and grab the tissue of the upper arm, with your fingertips as close to the bone as you can get them, holding onto the "fat". Then do the "flex like a bodybuilder" thing as described above. If it tightens up or firms up in your hand, it isn't fat, it's muscle.

Even quite-fit women, not to mention men, have triceps muscles that are mobile (will be slack, and "flap around" if the upper arm is shaken) when the arm is relaxed. This needs to be true, because muscles contract in order to do work, which implies that they need to have a little slack in them when relaxed. The longer muscles, like those triceps, will hang down and move a little when held horizontally shaken while relaxed.

saundraxo

Definitely arm fat. More so when its laying flat on my leg a oudge of fat sticks from the side. Kind of embarassed showing this 😭

saundraxo

Better one i suppose

saundraxo

"Flexed"

AnnPT77

saundraxo wrote: »

"Flexed"

No photo for flexed? :flowerforyou:

sijomial

You really did answer your own question!
Q/ "is there really no way to lose arm fat?"
A/ "I KNOW you cant spot reduce"


With 31lbs to lose and only being petite you are worrying about how you will look and fat distribution far too early.

Do keep training while you lose weight though.

saundraxo

AnnPT77 wrote: »

saundraxo wrote: »

"Flexed"

No photo for flexed? :flowerforyou:

@AnnPT77 i thought i did 😭

saundraxo

sijomial wrote: »

You really did answer your own question!
Q/ "is there really no way to lose arm fat?"
A/ "I KNOW you cant spot reduce"


With 31lbs to lose and only being petite you are worrying about how you will look and fat distribution far too early.

Do keep training while you lose weight though.

@sijomial Im not training. Just working and getting on the treadmill. I mean IDK i thought worrying about how to lose the weight was the point 💀💀😭 all I can do is walk it off at this point I suppose. But i guess im misunderstanding how to do my calories so its irriating me as i keeo reading articles and still fell dumb