Help me to understand

Shaimaalk
Shaimaalk Posts: 16 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Hello everyone 👋🏻 i hope you’re doing fine and all of you are safe and healthy 🙏🏻

I just read few days ago that if you want to lose weight on your thigh you shouldn’t work on them at all ? Is that true ?

My biggest issue is my thigh they are not that huge but i want them to be less and I’m working out 4 times a day ( each day I’m doing 30 minutes cardio on elliptical and then 30 min strength or core or resistance or mix between them it’s like the Orangetheory workout if you know them )
So buy doing this will i gain even more on my thigh ?

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  • age_is_just_a_number
    age_is_just_a_number Posts: 630 Member
    You cannot spot lose fat. Fat is lost where your body wants to lose it.
    You can spot build muscle. If you work your legs with resistance or weight training you will build muscle in your legs.
    Take care
  • Shaimaalk
    Shaimaalk Posts: 16 Member
    AnnPT77 wrote: »
    If you lose weight, it will drop off where it wants to, in the order it wants to, but if there's fat on your thighs, it will eventually reduce as you lose weight.

    Generally, especially among women, strength exercise makes body parts firmer and more solid (thus smaller at the same weight) long before it starts making them bigger (by adding new muscle fibers in meaningful amounts, which is a slow, slow thing). If you're losing weight, getting big muscles at the same time is even less likely. And in any circumstances, that "getting bigger" from exercise would happen so slowly that you'd notice, and you could reduce exercise to a maintenance level to stay where you are at that point. The kind of exercise you're doing, while useful, is not the kind that builds muscles fastest, either.

    For smaller thighs, if you're overweight, lose weight. Whether or not you're overweight, exercise, especially strength-building exercise.

    That was so helpful 🙏🏻 Thank you so much 🙏🏻

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