Targeting Belly Fat Is POSSIBLE?! (New Study)
Everyone wants to lose belly fat, right? The problem is, you can’t choose where fat loss happens in your body every time you work …
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May 17, 2025
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Everyone wants to lose belly fat, right? The problem is, you can’t choose where fat loss happens in your body every time you work …
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For the fitness nerds who want to dig deeper into the studies I mentioned, see the links below! What do you guys think? Is spot reduction possible? 🤔
FAT MOBILIZATION EXPLANATION
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16985258
2023 BELLY FAT SPOT REDUCTION STUDY
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38010201/
2017 UPPER VS LOWER BODY SPOT REDUCTION STUDY
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28497942/
2021 BELLY FAT SPOT REDUCTION STUDY
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/7/3845
This is a clickbait video. You don't need "studies", just look for Dr. Sten Ekberg explanations and you will understand.
"HIIT activates growth hormone, which will be burning fat during a whole week for you."
Look for his explanations. Do you just want to reduce your belly? Are you worried about your backache because most abs exercises on youtube are just dangerous for your back and hip muscles? Are you just a normal person who is not looking for a 6-pack or an athlete look? Belly fat is metabolic and we must care our back and core muscles above all.
Is it necessary to run during cardio or brisk walks.I have treadmill.
about cardio, what's the best way to do that outside gym?
walking or running?
which one's for how long or how far?
seeking experienced guys suggestion
Get to the fkin point, god damn long ass video for nothing.
It's so refreshing to hear all the pedants that always squawk about "you can't spot reduce" and "it's simple, you can't lose weight without a caloric deficit, you have to diet" eat their annoying unoriginal words
I am definitely trying that! Plus continue with my morning routine of stomach vacuuming . @Jeremy Ethier, have you done any research on it?
Does this apply to women?
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Absolutely possible to spot-reduce, tested on myself and it worked for me years ago, I have been screaming about it for decades. If you are targeting a certain problem area in particular, strengthening the muscles there, the stubborn fat will absolutely budge. When I just started working out as a teenager, I focused mainly on ab and core exercises, threw in some push ups and cardio as well (jump rope works best) – the area flattened pretty quickly and I had great definition there. So 100% tried, tested and it worked. I incorporated other exercises into my routine as time went on (legs, arms etc), but that was after I saw the forming pot belly go, so they didn't skew the results I got.
Too much philosophy here
Weight/fat reduction studies that dont consider amount of intake and consumption period may as well be wikipedia articles. Good for general guidelines, not to be taken literally. Which for the scientific part beats the whole purpose of it.
собственно, что и требовалось доказать, спасибо!
Nice information sir…content health
its not
I've found taking the Waste Trimmer Weight Loss Ab Belt and and wrapping it around my mouth works best
I have never been able to understand how solid the line on this topic has been about technical fat targeting, is it not clear that if you specifically work an area you will change said fat to muscle or build muscle in that spot, its been one of the many things you just let go because anyone against it isn't open for debate, so I would just go do ab workouts and change my skinny fat into 6 pack (currently) while progressing towards an 8 pack. To make it clear, the only way I got this was specifically doing exercises that worked my core or targeted my stomach, almost like I literally targeted it…. Oh wait I did
The same is true for essentially any muscle group.
Also for anyone out there struggling with weight loss, its easy, as you have been told, but also hard, that is, only as hard as you make it by not putting effort in and being disciplined.
When I was 12 or 13 or something I heard the banger of a line from Nickelback Rockstar "We'll all stay skinny because we just don't eat"
Super easy, if your pain tolerance is stomach pangs for 15-30min maybe a little longer for just one day (do not have sugary drinks) before you are chilling with no stomach pain the 2nd day and onward (generally for 8-16 more days before more pain) then the bar is at the bottom.
Cardio, get out and walk for 1-2 miles day, if rain or snow is that big of a problem, get a rain jacket and rain boots / winter jacket and snow boots. Once you can walk X initial distance without breaks, increase it more, work up to 3 miles and then start small intervals of jogging and walking, progressively increase this over ~10 week period, exercise daily = Success
You can either eat to live or live to eat, or find a 90/95:10/5 ratio
Get mad at yourself and that will get you in the right direction
The name CAMPBELL is prnounced CAM-BELL. The P is silent. It's lke CANDLE but with a B. CAMBLE.
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Hmmm… Won't hurt to try.
Ok, maybe it'll hurt just a little bit.
But no pain, no gain.
It’s called spot reduction and has been around years I always am under 10% fat genetically but if I do just sit-ups (decline) everyday I go to about 8 my lowest was under 6.
It’s all about genetics and diet and exercise last then you got it!
thats so funny jeremy i was actually thinking the same thing the other day.. i've got no fat on my arms and back or legs but do on chest and belly, why? because i really dont use those muscles daily, abs in particular even when standing up there's a tendency to overcompensate by rounding the back. when sitting and laying on the bed again no abs or chest. in the first place it makes no sense that the body should use fat storage thats farther away than the muscle or body part that needs it, right? that would be inefficient and illogical. the bigger the muscle the more energy it needs, abs not a big muscle group though hence why it takes longer. in fact you'd need a lot more cardio and muscle training to shed the fat because again in terms of efficiency if you train your back it'll first shed fat thats on there, then arms, then chest.. then from the belly, logically speaking. good that there's now research backing this up, baffling 'researchers' are figuring this out now