So you want to reduce those troubled areas?  The hips, the thighs, the butt - you are ready target those spots on your body and start reducing.  Then it only makes sense to really go after all the exercises that work these areas and go to town, doesn't it?  Well....

 

The truth of the matter is that there is no such thing as spot reduction.  That means that you can't target reduce the extra body fat around your buttocks by doing the butt blaster over and over again; you can't slender your hips by simply using the hip machines at your gym; and you can't lean out your legs through lunges alone.

 

The SCARY truth of the matter is that many times we actually make these areas of our bodies bigger by overdoing it.  You see when you exercise a muscle, it does nothing for the body fat around that muscle.  Instead it stimulates the muscle alone.  Depending on the weight you lift and the work volume, you are either building that muscle or maintaining it's current level.  The more the work volume the more likely you are to build the muscle.  Those new muscles just push the body fat all that much more.

 

Body fat reduction (on any area of your body) only takes place one way and one way only - you need to be at a safe, caloric deficit.  Simply put...burn more calories than you are taking in.  And guess what?  Your body gets to decide where it pulls the body fat from.  If it doesn't get to your troubled area right away, keep going!  Eventually it will.

 

To lose body fat in your butt, hips, and thighs, try these two exercises:

Reduce away!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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