spot reduction
You can burn fat from specific places on your body by exercising the muscles beneath the area you want to tighten.
Want to lose your belly fat? Do crunches. Want to lose your bat wings? Do triceps extensions. Want to get rid of your sausage fingers? Become a typist… or so the story goes.
Unfortunately, if using a muscle triggered fat loss directly atop said muscle, then fat people wouldn’t have fat faces.
Where do you think your chewing muscles are?
There's only one scientifically proven way to spot reduce body fat. It's not FDA-approved. It's dangerous. But it works.
Ready for it?
Are you sure?
Takes a little grit.
(And bloodshed.)
Because you have to use a knife.
You're not dumb enough to use this unorthodox “cutting” strategy to spot reduce body fat (even though it's the only scientifically-proven way to get the job done). If you want to lose fat from specific areas of your body (and you probably do), the only thing you can do is put your body in fat-loss mode by creating an energy deficit and crossing your fingers.
Upon creating an energy deficit, your body will burn fat from areas deemed less important first. Could be the fat in your neck. Could be the fat between your toes. Could be the fat between your eyebrows.
No way to know.
No way to nudge.
Losing fat is like trying to pour a particle of food out of a glass of water. You tip the cup, hoping the water-logged carbohydrate flops out first. It doesn’t. It sinks to the bottom of the glass because it's obeying the laws of physics, not your fickle feelings.
The physics of fat loss bends the knee to survival, not six-pack abs.
And for whatever survival-based reason, you should expect to lose fat around your lower abdomen and love-handle region last. You may not enjoy how your stomach looks like a series of hot dogs rotating on one of those roller machines when you sit down, but your body sure does.
If you're losing fat everywhere except the one place you want to lose fat most, there's only one thing you can do: keep going. Your body will eventually zap fat from your troublesome areas (unless you tried to spot reduce body fat with science and now you're dead).
May the Gains be with you,
Ant