Spot reduction: Want to lose weight off just your Belly,Thighs or bum?

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  • queenliz99
    queenliz99 Posts: 15,317 Member
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    But, but but...


    Bookmarking for future threads :)<3
  • Asher_Ethan
    Asher_Ethan Posts: 2,430 Member
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    I wish fat spot reduction was true; I would have kept my boobs.
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
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    Asher_Ethan wrote: »
    I wish fat spot reduction was true; I would have kept my boobs.

    Aahh yes, I often reminisce about my once ample boobage :sad:

  • MissusMoon
    MissusMoon Posts: 1,900 Member
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    Christine_72 wrote: »
    Here's your answer

    http://www.aworkoutroutine.com/spot-reduction/

    You are an angel.
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
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    MissusMoon wrote: »
    Christine_72 wrote: »
    Here's your answer

    http://www.aworkoutroutine.com/spot-reduction/

    You are an angel.

    :kissing_heart:

  • Rocknut53
    Rocknut53 Posts: 1,794 Member
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    Thanks for this, I was sooooo tired of doing all those crunches. ;)
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
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    Rocknut53 wrote: »
    Thanks for this, I was sooooo tired of doing all those crunches. ;)

    Wouldn't it be nice if that was all it took to get rockin' abs!
  • V_Keto_V
    V_Keto_V Posts: 342 Member
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    Fat burning-wise, "cardio-acceleration" is a pretty interesting training method...coined by Jim Stoppani. It basically involves super-setting a low rep, heavy weight lifting movement with a set of HIIT with little rest in between sets mainly to keep HR elevated overall resulting in more kcals burnt during lifting sessions. It's an attempt to gain benefits from both HIIT & traditional endurance/volume workouts.
  • cecsav1
    cecsav1 Posts: 714 Member
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    YES!
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,503 Member
    edited June 2016
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    It is "possible", but not likely doable for many.
    In 2007, a study published in the "American Journal of Physiology Endocrinology and Metabolism" measured changes in fat mass during high-rep knee extensions.7 They also looked at the blood flow and fat breakdown in fat tissue adjacent to working muscles and in fat tissue around inactive muscles in the other leg.

    After 30 minutes of doing knee extensions with one leg, subjects switched legs and did knee extensions for 120 minutes using more weight. Blood flow and fat breakdown were greatest around the working muscles. The take-home message: Specific exercises can cause spot-reduction because blood flow and fat use is higher in the adipose (fat) tissue closest to working muscles.

    The trouble is, these specific exercises work for spot-reduction, but only in tiny increments. You won't see your abs pop after a few sit-ups; it's a bit like taking a few grains of sand off a beach. So it's kind of useless and people who say it doesn't work are mostly correct, but not technically speaking.
    Yeah, I'm not doing 2 hours of knee extensions to lose a micrometer of fat.

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