Targeting Fat

Bigplay691

I see people say you cant target one area to burn fat from. However, if I understand correctly, the body uses stored fat as energy and helps replenish, in a sense, the building muscle parts your working on. So is cardio an overall fat burn and particular muscle build pull fat from just that area? For example, crunches build ab muscles, so does it pull fat from the stomach area mostly because it is closest to the part that is rebuilding muscle.

Lyadeia

No, that's not how the body works. It doesn't take energy from the nearest area and ignore the others. If it did, then spot reduction wouldn't be a myth. The body metabolizes energy from all over all at the same time. The body is great at working as a whole unit, and this is exactly what it does constantly.

Cr01502

No.

Crunches is an anaerobic activity that uses primarily muscle glycogen so very little fat would be utilized during this exercise.

Even if it didn't this still wouldn't be the case. As the above poster stated there's no way to tell the body where to choose it's fat stores from.

Bigplay691

Thanks for the reply

snowbike

Mostly true

The Fats on Adipose tissue have to be moved to muscles via the blood stream.
The Fats in intramuscular fat can be used locally.

Unfortunalty The fat we all want to get rid of is Adipose tissue.