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Actually there's some new information that shows that to some extent, you can spot reduce. Was just reading this the other day actually. "They" did some study that showed that whatever muscle groups you are burning up in the gym with exercise do have an effect on the fat tissue surrounding them. The muscle tends to metabolize the fat immediately accessible to it for energy.
I'm not saying if you do 500 situps a day you'll have washboard abs if you are overweight or you don't eat right, its not that simple. What I am saying is that if you eat right, and you use isolation exercises to target a specific area, you will likely burn more fat from that specific area. All thats known is that excercise increases bloodflow to subcutaneous fat and lipolysis from the same cells.
You need to eat right to do it but targeting your legs specifically is not necessarily impossible. Food for thought, the type of exercise used for the study was essentially cardiovascular in nature. Low resistence for a period of around 30 minutes.
It was in the American Journal of Physiology last year. I read some of the highlights in M&F earlier this year I think. I'd have to go through a stack to find it again. The premise of the article was that when they measured bloodflow to fat cells around a muscle being exercised with low resistence, for around a half hour if memory serves, the bloodflow to the subcutaneous fat cells was signficantly higher, and lipolysis from those specific fat cells was a great deal higher.MM - Can you find me a link for this information?
Not trying to flame you bro, its just that this doesn't make any sense from a physiology standpoint.
When you lose weight (IE eat less & excercise, body burns fat for energy), Body Fat (Adipose Tissue) is broken down by a process called lipolysis. During this process, triglycerides within the adipose tissues are converted into fatty acids and glycerol, and sent to the liver for further processing before entering the body as fuel. Its not as if I do situps, and the muscles in that area use the fat in that area for extra energy... Turning fat into energy is a complex process involving most of the GI track of a your body. This is why we lose weight from our extremities 1st. Our bodies are geared to conserve fat/enegry to stave off starvation during the lean times our ancestors experienced.
Just my 2c, hope I didn't stomp on your post......
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