In men it’s the opposite, the upper body is the dump site for excess fat, in particular the gut, as well as the arms/chest. In women fat storage tends to occur mostly in the lower body, legs, thighs, bum. Now let’s talk fat storage/deposition and fat burning. Those numbers alone should tell you which you should be doing if you want to maximise weight loss. See the difference? Let’s not even start to discuss the benefits of squatting over crunches to muscular development, especially in the abdomen/core and the metabolic effect of weight training, that’s a whole new article. (This might seem like an unattainable feat, but squatting bodyweight is achievable for almost anyone in a short amount of regular training). A 160lb person doing 160lb barbell squats burns around 100 calories in 5 minutes of total exercise. Let’s take a look at the marmite of weightlifting, Barbell Squats (You either love them or hate them). How many calories does a crunch burn you might ask? According to a 160lb person doing 5 minutes of crunches will burn approximately 44 calories. It stands to reason then that to lose fat mass efficiently, you should do high calorie burning exercise with a low calorie/calorie controlled diet. To lose weight you need to burn calories, if your ‘Calories Out’ (The calories you burn by living, breathing, exercising) is greater than your ‘Calories In’ (The calories consumed in food/drink) then you will lose weight. Look at it from the basis of all weight loss programs. The body is simply not programmed that way. Speak to any slightly educated fitness professional, coach, or doctor and they will tell you it doesn’t work. It’s the reason you see countless people doing thousands of crunches trying to get that ever elusive six pack. What is Spot Reduction? Spot reduction is the ‘belief’ (I say belief and not theory), that training a particular area will burn fat from that area. I wont link the website here because we aren't going to start posting properly until we have a bank of about 20 articles to release. So, basically me and my friend have made a website where we will blog/post fitness related articles, usually dispelling some of the myths/fallacies that you hear/read in the gym or on the internet. I am wholeheartedly sorry for any inconvenience I caused and can only beg for your forgiveness. ![]() I can only ask that you don't judge my character based on this one blip, but rather on my past actions and history. I'd like to think previous to this I've had a good track record of knowing where the line is, and when to tip toe around it, but tonight I took a huge fucking bound over the line, the line was a dot to me. What happened after that, regarding the phony RAT, and the almost police action, I can not apologise enough for, particularly to Staff who were dealing with the problem, as soon as I realised it could have severe real life implications, I thought it best for me to take the heat for a joke gone horribly wrong. ![]() I've removed any threats found after an entire system scan and all passwords have been changed. So, my forum account WAS compromised, that wasn't me pretending, that happened and forum security was breached but has now been fixed.
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