By Alexis Louise Reda
This is a tough thing for a lot of people, because we cannot target specific areas of the body telling it to lose fat predominantly there.
There is an illusion that hovers about in the fitness realm, that if you focus on training that specific region of the body you can “spot reduce” – but what happens to the target region instead, which contributes to this misconception, is that you build muscle in that region, therefore, that new, bigger muscle would show through at a higher body fat percentage than you would need to be at otherwise to see that definition you most likely desire.
You wanna look “tight” a.k.a. “toned”, as some may say, after all, right? That is what you wish to accomplish when you think you want to lose fat?
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