Have you ever seen the commercials for different home-gyms that give the targeted training needed to get rid of the belly fat? They are often called abdominizer or some other cool name. Sometimes it's a lotion or a cream that you should apply to lose the fat located above your abs and to get that extra boost you should take a pill or two.
These commercials are wrong and they divert you from what you are trying to accomplish. The biggest diversion is that they want you to do situps and other exercises that really target the abs and the fat lying on top. Not true. If you know anything about burning fat you know that we have lots of fat cells all over our body and a lot of them are located under the skin but above the muscle, hence its name, subcutaneous fat. If you know your way in nutritional physiology you know that statements like the above is rubbish.
Burn The Fat
When you burn fat, the fat is taken from all the fat cells at the same time. There are some hormonal mechanism that will make some fat reserves release more fat than an other but not in a significant difference.
There is a study made on this. They examined a professional tennis player and one would think that he should have less fat on the arm he uses for tennis but as you might have figured he didn't. In fact he had the exact amount as he did on his other arm.
The only nutritionals that may be burnt locally is carbohydrates and glycogen but that is a totally different area and wont be discussed here.
Ok, now we have been playing mythbusters for a while. This myth is now officially busted!
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