Almost every single client who’s looking to drop some fat or tone up always ask me to give them an exercise that will help them lose fat _______ . You can insert any number of different body parts. The thing is there has been no research to prove or indicate that there is a strong relationship between doing exercises that will target specific areas of fat. For example, just because you have more fat on your stomach doesn’t mean that doing crunches or any other ab exercise is going to burn more fat in your stomach than anywhere else in your body.
Most people don’t have an understanding of how the body gets rid of fat. Here is a quick explanation of the way that you “burn” fat is that your fat cell gets the correct signal from your body indicating it needs energy. You fat cells will release fat into the blood stream which will take it to the muscles to be used. But your body doesn’t necessarily take fat from the area that is being worked, it will take fat from fat cells all over your body.
Another reason most people think that they can lose fat in a specific area is that there is a myth out there that fat will turn to muscle or that muscle can turn to fat. This is not true, fat cells and muscle cells are two completely different structures. They do not totally transform, it would be equivalent to brain cells turning into heart cells. This is another reason that it isn’t really possible to target a specific area to lose more fat through an exercise.
Tune in to our next blog post to learn how you can target specific areas of your body to lose fat.
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