Q. Ali I want to lose the extra fat around my waist and my hip/butt area, I am a 36 year old female with 2 kids and go to the gym 2 times a week and do my two aerobic classes and one abdominal class but it does not seem to be helping, please help me.

A. I am so glad you asked this is a question I get so many times from women just like you that need to understand what they want to happen with their bodies and the actions they take are not going to help them achieve what they want.

However, the ladies keep trudging away at those aerobic classes and abdominal classes hoping they will lose the specific areas on their bodies they want to target. OK, let me handle this so I make myself clear I want all ladies from here to Mars listen to what I am about to say; You cannot spot reduce, you cannot change one area by doing exercises just for that area, you cannot lose the fat around the stomach by doing only crunches or sit ups, you cannot lose the fat in the butt/hip by doing only exercises for those areas!

There I have stated the truth and women around the Universe are now looking like a deer caught in the headlights because that is the look I get whenever I inform women of this physiological fact.

When you work a specific area let’s use the abdominal area for example, you work and work those muscles with hundreds of crunches, but that area is a small muscle group, so the muscle group is one of six major muscle groups. So you have worked those abs hard but the other major muscle groups have done nothing and thus your fat burning mechanism, the metabolism, is just a little higher because you have only work one small muscle group.

You have to work your entire body engaging the major muscle groups (chest, shoulders, triceps & biceps, back, hamstring, quadriceps, with the same intensity you worked your abdominal muscle group and the fat burning engine now turns on. Now do this on a consistent basis and you will start to see drops in size in the areas you are looking for but only because of the full body work you have done.

If you want to get to the specific area start at your head and finish with your toes and then the areas in between will start to respond, work on just those areas and you will be working in vain.

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