Spot Reduce Fat... Can it be done?

KieranIRL

As far as I know you cant spot reduce fat... But what if someone was to just workout one part of their body and nothing else will this not reduce fat in that area?

EileenG

Not really. You'll burn calories, depending on how hard you are working and how big the muscle that you're working, but those calories will come from wheverever is handiest for the body to raid, not right beside the working muscle.

There was a study in Denmark which appeared to show that fat use increased near a working muscle, but the conditions of the study are just about impossible to reproduce in real life, and they never went on to see if the increased fat use actually resulted in any form of spot reduction.

However, let's say you work legs only, and nothing else. You'll have really developed leg muscles compared to the rest of your body, which will make your legs look better than your arms.

Mellor

KieranIRL wrote: »

As far as I know you cant spot reduce fat... But what if someone was to just workout one part of their body and nothing else will this not reduce fat in that area?

Seriously????

Translation:

wrote:

I know you can't spot reduces fat, but what I want to know is can you spot reduce fat

mloc

KieranIRL wrote: »

Spot Reduce Fat... Can it be done?

No, no it cannot.

ilovelamp2000

There is a school of thought (Poliquin's biosigniture modulation) that says it can be done, but it's done through diet and changing hormonal balances rather than exercising one particular part repetitively.

ragg

No you can't & the kicker is, 9 times out of 10 - the place you want it off most, is the last place it will come off. One of gods nastier pranks IMO

john_cappa

Rosco1982 wrote: »

There is a school of thought (Poliquin's biosigniture modulation) that says it can be done, but it's done through diet and changing hormonal balances rather than exercising one particular part repetitively.

There are suppliments such as fat burn sprays which can be used to spot reduce fat
e.g.
http://www.discount-supplements.co.uk/shopexd.asp?id=5801

Naturally you may be skeptical as was I (and still am a bit) however I have seen people have some results. They all agreed though it was only effective when you were already at 12% or so and looking to go lower. The results were not mind blowing but they did have some merit.

corkcomp

john_cappa wrote: »

There are suppliments such as fat burn sprays which can be used to spot reduce fat
e.g.
http://www.discount-supplements.co.uk/shopexd.asp?id=5801

Naturally you may be skeptical as was I (and still am a bit) however I have seen people have some results. They all agreed though it was only effective when you were already at 12% or so and looking to go lower. The results were not mind blowing but they did have some merit.

i didnt even open that link, but "fat burning sprays" - gimme a break, I cant see how these could actually reduce fat by any margin (as oposed to making it look like fat has been lost from an area)

john_cappa

corkcomp wrote: »

i didnt even open that link, but "fat burning sprays" - gimme a break, I cant see how these could actually reduce fat by any margin (as oposed to making it look like fat has been lost from an area)

I am only going off what i have seen. There is not any clinical research done to assess that it does/does not work but it is not inconceivable that they could. There are many example of how the skin can successfully absorb active ingredients.

Tried to find the online journal of a friend of mine who used it a few years back and cant. As i said the results werent mind blowing as he was already in good shape but he definitely noticed the effects in his abs.

--amadeus--

john_cappa wrote: »

There are suppliments such as fat burn sprays which can be used to spot reduce fat
e.g.
http://www.discount-supplements.co.uk/shopexd.asp?id=5801

Naturally you may be skeptical as was I (and still am a bit) however I have seen people have some results. They all agreed though it was only effective when you were already at 12% or so and looking to go lower. The results were not mind blowing but they did have some merit.

Well if you believe that I have some magic beans for sale...

brianblaze

john_cappa wrote: »

There are suppliments such as fat burn sprays which can be used to spot reduce fat
e.g.
http://www.discount-supplements.co.uk/shopexd.asp?id=5801

Naturally you may be skeptical as was I (and still am a bit) however I have seen people have some results. They all agreed though it was only effective when you were already at 12% or so and looking to go lower. The results were not mind blowing but they did have some merit.

Try this, it's guaranteed to get you shredded...

mloc

The only things I could think of that might work like that would be massively illegal, perhaps Test in DMSO or something. It still would have limited local effect.

john_cappa

--amadeus-- wrote: »

Well if you believe that I have some magic beans for sale...

As i said! I am going off what i have seen. Not claiming the results are magically now am I?

You are assuming it doesnt work? Is there a scientific reason it cant work? (i dont have any to say why they could work but my mind is open to the possibility that they may have merit or in the future may have some merit, as i said above i am still abit skeptical even though i have seen them used with results)

Transform

john_cappa wrote: »

As i said! I am going off what i have seen. Not claiming the results are magically now am I?

You are assuming it doesnt work? Is there a scientific reason it cant work? (i dont have any to say why they could work but my mind is open to the possibility that they may have merit or in the future may have some merit, as i said above i am still abit skeptical even though i have seen them used with results)

On the whole the person who asks this question should have no business looking at spot reducing as i guarantee there are at least 5 vital things they are NOT doing in both their training and diet.

The people that would benefit from hormone balancing or sprays as mentioned have put in the ground work and those changes become very minor but specific to that individual.

Look at getting the very basics right before you even think about spot reducing i.e. diet, weights, intervals and bacis supplements like fish oils.

EileenG

Yohimbe has a decent reputation for "melting" a small amount of fat under the skin. The trouble is, it only works on small areas (bathing in it doesn't work) and you have to be pretty shredded in the first place.

john_cappa

EileenG wrote: »

Yohimbe has a decent reputation for "melting" a small amount of fat under the skin. The trouble is, it only works on small areas (bathing in it doesn't work) and you have to be pretty shredded in the first place.

Exactly. As i said above a number of times they are only useful for someone who had low bf already.

fei_hung

KieranIRL wrote: »

As far as I know you cant spot reduce fat... But what if someone was to just workout one part of their body and nothing else will this not reduce fat in that area?

Maybe you have heard about the bodybuilder who trained in the lions penn at the zoo. When an on-looker asked him why he was doing something so stupid he replied `I want to get ripped to shreds`

In reality spot reduction is impossible unless you take a blow torch or a cheese grater to your `problem` area.:pac:

steven1977

KieranIRL wrote: »

As far as I know you cant spot reduce fat... But what if someone was to just workout one part of their body and nothing else will this not reduce fat in that area?

I think you are wrong there are some exercise which show there effect on certain parts of the body.For more fat related information you can get from <snip - I edited it out on purpose. You putting it back in confirms your spammer status - goodbye>

EileenG

There was a study in Denmark which got people excited for a while, which showed that if you do 90 minutes of knee extension on one side v ten on the other leg, there was greater fat activation as a result. But they never followed through on the study to see if this actually resulted in greater fat loss, or what the physical results were in terms of fat loss.

For a couple of months, every fitness mag had big features about "Spot reduction possible", but then they realised the limitations of the study (who would normally do 90 minutes of knee extensions, for instance?) and quietly dropped it in favour of squats, bench press and deadlifts.

RobAMerc

Guy's, I've been working on the premise that reduced sugar = reduced belly no ?
Is that not a form of spot reduction? ( if its true )

EileenG

No, in that sugar is one of those foods whose effect seems to more than the sum of its calories. Sugar has such a huge effect on insulin that it can result in abnormal fat storage on the trunk. Reducing the sugar should result in less of the abnormal fat storage. If you eat too many calories, but very few of them sugar, you'll still store fat, but more of it on your arse, less on your belly.

But if you are eating a reasonable diet at maintenance, lack of sugar will not cause your belly to turn into a six pack.