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6 May 2008
By: Simpleology Team
If you're trying to lose your potbelly by doing 1,000 or so crunches a day, you'll probably be relieved to know that there's no such thing as spot reduction. (Read: You can stop doing it because it's not going to work.) Take it from Dr. Gabe Mirkin, author of Getting Thin: All About Fat - How You Get It, How You Lose It, How You Keep It Off for Good. "Exercising a muscle does not get rid of fat over the specific muscles that are exercised," he says, "If it did, tennis players would have less fat in their tennis arms, but they don't."
Bottom line: all the crunches in the world won't give you washboard abs. And what about the flood of gadgets promising you fabulous abs in just five minutes? Forget about them. Though we may all want to believe that strapping on a vibrating belt could melt away our belly fat while we're at home watching TV - it's just not possible.
Mirkin adds: "Exercises and 'ab' machines can strengthen sagging belly muscles, but they will not remove extra fat from your belly. The only way to lose fat from the place where you store most of your fat - whether it's your belly or your hips - is to lose weight overall."
If the good doctor's words don't convince you, get a second opinion from Mike Geary - a certified nutrition specialist and certified personal trainer - who says, "The perfectly chiseled fitness models in the [infomercials] did not get their perfect body by using that 'ab contraption.' They got their perfect body through real workouts and real nutrition strategies."
By that, Geary means you should exercise at least an hour a day and eat wisely.
It's best if we all get up from our couches and get moving. (Still, we can always dream of a gadget that'll give us sexy abs while we sleep.)
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