Question of the Day

If you cannot see your abdominal muscles, grab the fat that is near your navel or love handles. If you've heard the expression, "Can't pinch an inch" the reason is that skin itself is only a few millimeters thick. Even if you had "loose skin" you would be able to pinch it flat, like the rubber of a deflated balloon. All of that excess you have in your hands is fat: a special type of fat called "subcutaneous fat" or fat beneath the skin.
Despite the fact we've known for decades that spot reduction doesn't happen, people still believe it is true. After all, doesn't common sense suggest if you do sit-ups, you will lose stomach fat? And if your goal is to get a leaner midsection, shouldn't you really focus on that midsection?

Instead of guessing, let's look at what we've known for years. In 1984, a group of scientists performed a study. They had a group of people perform hundreds of sit-ups daily for almost a month. They also took biopsies (actual specimens) of fat tissue from various areas of the body (including the stomach, back, and rump).

What did they find out?

"The conventional sit up exercise does not preferentially reduce adipose cell size or subcutaneous fat thickness in the abdominal region to a greater extent compared to other adipose sites."

In other words, they lost fat evenly in all areas and not just in the stomach region (the control group who did not perform sit-ups ALSO lost fat in the stomach region).

As I've said over and over, the key to seeing your abs is NOT abdominal training, but leaning down to low body fat. I have had dozens of clients who never performed a sit-up or crunch in their life and have well-defined abdominal muscles, while even more people who do crunches and sit-ups every day never see their stomach because they don't also follow a good fat loss program.

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