Everyone has a particular trouble spot they hate – wide hips, a shelf butt, a flabby belly. And they ask me, “What exercises can I do to get rid of this?”
Well, let me tell you the bad news first.
There is no such thing as spot training. You can do 500 abdominal crunches everyday and still have a flabby belly. Why? Because there’s still fat on top of those muscles.
I heard it once said: you may have a washboard stomach underneath, but there’s a whole load of laundry sitting on top.
The same goes for the hips and glutes. You can do exercises to target these areas, and they will tone and tighten the muscles, but if you have a lot of fat sitting on top, you won’t get the results you’re looking for.
The only way to reduce these trouble spots is to exercise AND lose weight.
Your body loses weight proportionately. If you lose 5% body fat, that fat loss comes from all over your body. So the areas of your body that are holding the most fat will look like they’re shrinking slower. They’re not. It’s just that they have more fat stores to get rid of.
The good news is that you can work on those trouble spots by exercising and following a healthy diet.
