Friday, June 27, 2025

Fat Loss Is a TOTAL Body Process

Guess what? Fat loss is not site specific. It's actually impossible to target fat loss in a certain part of your body no matter how many crunches you do. Fat loss is a total body process.

Your body pulls fat from random areas of your body. You have virtually no control over where it will occur. It's mostly a matter of your genetics. 

It's kind of like trying to drain a swimming pool. If you try to drain just one corner of the pool with a bucket, what happens? Does one section of the pool go down while everything else remains high? Nope. The overall water level goes down a tiny fraction. That's what it's like to lose body fat. You can't specifically spot reduce a certain body of your body. And that's really annoying.

But there's good news. Let's expand our analogy. Imagine a swimming pool that has a shallow end and a deep end. On my body, and due to my genes, the "shallow end" is made up of my arms, legs, face, and back. 

They get lean relatively quickly, whereas the opposite is true for my belly, which is the "deep end" of the pool. I'm going to have to lose a certain amount of fat from the rest of my body before my abs will finally stand out. 

Guys, this is true of many of us. If you don't like it, take it up with your parents, who gave you your genetics.