Do Spot Reduction Exercises Actually Work?

WEIGHT LOSS AND FITNESS MYTH #5:

Thigh reducers, tummy trimmers, and body part shapers can ‘spot’ reduce.

All over the country people are falling for infomercials touting muscle-specific exercisers for body fat reduction. You cannot reduce your waist size by working the abdominal muscles, nor can you reduce your thighs with a thigh exerciser. It’s a scam. A total rip-off. The only way to reduce body fat is by combining a precise programme of supportive nutrition with the right balance of aerobic and resistance exercise. If it sounds hard, it’s not. It’s just hard to cut through all the lies, misinformation, and total nonsense being shoved down your throat by companies attempting to further line their pockets at your expense.

Revealed:

Four Secrets To Finally Achieving The Weight Loss,

Health And Fitness Results You Want

1. The secret of making a simple commitment to your exercise programme. The big companies who are stealing your money want you to believe that a pill, fad diet, or a special machine will solve all your weight loss and fitness problems. This is counter-intuitive and insults your common sense. But people still want to believe – because there’s so much PAIN. The real ‘secret’ is quite simple and I’ll distil it for you right here: eat four to five small healthy meals per day and perform a combination of aerobic and resistance training exercise for 40 to 60 minutes three times a week. Take out your calendar right now and mark off three days each week for the next 12 weeks when you will commit to exercising. Then do it. Your consistent commitment will bring you the results you want.

2. The secret of having a coach. Almost every self-help book ever written talks about the critical importance of having a coach/mentor. A coach is an experienced and trusted counsellor or teacher. It’s inevitable you will come up against hard times on your path to losing weight and getting fit. A coach guides, motivates, educates, and supports you – so you can easily and rapidly overcome these hurdles. A coach is critical to systemising your exercise programme for maximum results and assisting you in heightening your motivation and strengthening your commitment. And a coach becomes your ‘objective feedback system’, helping you see, understand, and correct the problems interfering with your progress. Exercise and nutrition are bona fide sciences, and learning everything you need to know on your own can take years of struggle – but not if you have a coach.

3. The secret of progression. Have you ever met someone who says they exercise week after week, month after month, even year after year and aren't getting any new results? Believe it or not, doing the same workout over and over without expert guidance to direct your progress will actually decrease your fitness. You must learn how to progressively improve and fine-tune your efforts for maximum weight loss and fitness results.

4. The BIGGEST secret: accountability. In a recent study at Virginia Polytechnic University, researchers divided people starting a walking programme into two groups. Every week, each individual in one group got a phone call asking how their exercise programme was coming along. The other group got no calls. At the end of 24 weeks, 45% of the individuals who got the phone calls were still walking compared to just 2% who did not receive calls. The results show that weekly accountability increases the likelihood of sticking to your exercise programme by 2200%!

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Blog Written by Tanvir Heer Coaching

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