You CAN Spot Reduce

Not to be controversial BUT, I think the poster has a point. Certain exercises can make certain areas smaller or larger, and certain conditions you exercise on makes a difference. I noticed this while watching the Olympics and noticed that the sport a person played determined body shape even more than race. I noticed that the female swimmers, while having serious muscle mass also had a fat layer for insulation. The ladies had large backs and slim waists. The gymnasts had wide waists and large thigh and shoulder muscles, but very low body fat. The type of exercise and the conditions you do the exercise on make a big difference in what areas get small or big. So, in essence, you can spot reduce, just maybe in a different way that people normally think of spot reduction.

Not to be controversial BUT, I think the poster has a point. Certain exercises can make certain areas smaller or larger, and certain conditions you exercise on makes a difference. I noticed this while watching the Olympics and noticed that the sport a person played determined body shape even more than race. I noticed that the female swimmers, while having serious muscle mass also had a fat layer for insulation. The ladies had large backs and slim waists. The gymnasts had wide waists and large thigh and shoulder muscles, but very low body fat. The type of exercise and the conditions you do the exercise on make a big difference in what areas get small or big. So, in essence, you can spot reduce, just maybe in a different way that people normally think of spot reduction.

This is very similar to what I am saying. If you do the correct exercises for your body, you can reduce areas.
Thank you for posting this even if it was controversial.
A lot of people hear things, read thing and believe things for a long time, and then when someone opposes if even a little, they jump on immediately saying it is wrong.
I am just trying to give people hope that they can improve themselves when a certain "spot" is really bothering them. Because it has worked for me.

You can tone areas up by building muscle in said areas. When people say "you can't spot reduce" they mean that doing crunches over and over WILL NOT burn the fat off your stomach (I mean unless you incorporate into a cardio routine- now we're talking) It will only build up muscle so that it may look like you are slimmer but to lose that fat you have to do cardio and eat clean.

Of course you need to eat clean and burn fat with cardio, but you can build muscle in certain "spots" to improve the amount of muscle vs. fat in those spots.

I just hear so many people so frustrated with certain spots on their bodies and people are not giving them helpful info regarding how they can improve those spots.

I think you guys are both describing how the type of exercise you do; the areas of the body your work affect body composition. This is actually about how muscle growth occurs in the targetted area. Unless very overweight your tummy will feel firmer to the touch and look better if you develop the muscles there but don't actually lose any fat.

This is not spot-reduction as that term is usually used but rather body-recomposition; changing the composition of the body through an increase in muscle mass.

First let’s assume that you’re carying a whopping 5 kg (11.1 pounds) of fat in a specific area.

If local exercise can mobilize 0.6-2.1 milligrams of fat per 100 grams of fat mass, that works out to:

0.6-2.1 mg/100 grams * 1000 grams/kg * 5 kg = 30-105 milligrams of fat.

Or 0.03-0.1 gram of extra fat mobilized in 30 minutes of activity.

Now, a single pound of fat (0.454 kg) contains about 400 grams of fat so our hypothetical 11.1 pounds of fat contains 4,440 grams of fat. And 30 minutes of local activity mobilized at most 0.1 gram of fat. Whoo hoo. You’ll be ripped in about 1000 years.

You can't spot reduce.

Oh, ok. My body must be magic then.

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ROFLMAO!!!!! good one!

I gave examples and I have discussed this with a trainer.

It's easy to think that a trainer is all-knowledgable about physiology, exercise and nutrition because when you start out into that area yourself they seem to know a lot more than you do. But as with any profession there is a huge range of ability and knowledge and experience. My opinion is that there are very few who are passionate and truly study this constantly advancing set of sciences and apply that learning and try to move it forward. There are many, many who have a minor foundation certificate in safe exercise form etc and do their 9-5 or whatever and actually don't know very much beyond that. That's how every field is.