1. Can I Spot Reduce My Fatty
Areas?
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2. NO!!!

3. Why you can’t Spot Reduce Fatty Areas
• spot exercises by themselves do not burn enough calories to make a dent
in fat loss.
• even if you could burn the appropriate number of calories by doing spot
exercises for your problem area you have no control over where your fat
will be burned.
• To lose fat in a particular part of the body, say the abdomen or the thighs,
overall body fat must be reduced.
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4. • Researchers compared the right and left arms of high-
caliber tennis players to study the effects of exercise on
reducing fat. The researchers compared the subcutaneous
fat of the tennis player’s right and left arms.If spot reducing
worked, then theoretically, the dominant arms of the tennis
players would have less subcutaneous fat because the
dominant arms are constantly exercised as compared to
their non-dominant arms.The researchers found that the
overall size of the tennis player’s dominant arms was larger
due to the hypertrophy of the underlying muscles (to be
expected). However, skinfold measurements of the
athlete’s dominant and non-dominant arms revealed that
regular exercise of the dominant arm did not reduce
subcutaneous fat deposits in the playing arm.

5. • “Essentials of Exercise Physiology” (2006)
• Lifetime Physical Fitness and Wellness a
personalized program- Hoeger & Hoeger
• MensHealth.com
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