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Loosing weights on top of legs
- Thread starter Beaver
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Unfortunately you don't get to pick and choose where you lose fat from.
Hellooo.
Im wondering what is the best way to loose weight on the top of the legs. Im building my torso up so would doing leg exercises with weights be best or cardio???
Thank you-
Both, but separately, ideally. Say, 1 hour of moderate fasted cardio in the morning and an hour of full body weight training sometime in the afternoon. That's just a random example, mind you.
As Steve says, you can't spot reduce, but if you drop your body fat low enough and firm up enough, odds are you'll get what you're looking for. Provided your goals are not unreasonable (such as wanting to look like someone with a much higher genetic predisposition to aesthetic appeal who consequently has with little or no effort a body you will probably never attain without surgery and/or grinding yourself to the bone).
Hellooo.
Im wondering what is the best way to loose weight on the top of the legs. Im building my torso up so would doing leg exercises with weights be best or cardio???
Thank you-
It's my opinion, that if one were to calculate their approximate calorie needs, and adjust these according to their particular fitness goals (and continually adjust them--as needed as one moves along their goal path), and implement a high energy and sound FBW, one can be well on their way (or provide a stepping stone) to appropriate weight loss. Cardio "isn't required" for fat loss; but can play an essential role within one goal path when implemented and diet (particular to the person) is up to snuff.
You can decrease your body fat - through dietary manipulation and exercise and you can lose the portion you desire---->but you don't have the choice where it comes off as you move forward with your goal, but it WILL come off--from the place you want most--if your faithful with diet and exercise, and are able to look at yourself with "educated eyes" and make adjustments as you get feedback from your body.
I am going to post this article for you to read to give you an idea.
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Why cant we spot reduce?
This is an important question and one I'm frequently asked. You need to know a little bit of biology to understand the answer. Here's what you need to know. Fat is stored in special cells located all over your body called adipocytes. Adipocytes grow and shrink as they store and release fat, much like a balloon grows and shrinks as air is blown in and released. You gain weight when you pump up your adipocytes with fat by consuming more calories than you burn (excess calories can get stored as fat). You lose weight when your adipocytes release fat into the blood stream and shrink, either in response to exercise (exercise sends a signal to adipocytes to release fat) or when you reduce your calorie intake to the point where you are burning more than you consume. Fat released into the blood stream by adipocytes circulates to the muscles where it is burned for energy. (A car burns gasoline for energy; your muscles burn fat and carbohydrate.)
Exercise stimulates adipocytes to release fat by increasing circulation of hormones like norepinephrine (adrenaline). When norepinephrine reaches an adipocyte, no matter where in your body it's located, it signals special chemical messengers inside the adipocytes to stimulate fat release, and just like the balloon that shrinks when you let out the air, adipocytes shrink when they release fat. You will keep the fat off as long as it gets burned by the muscle and does not return to the adipocyte for storage. That's one of the reasons why exercise helps control body weight.
The reason that you can't spot reduce during exercise, which is what you are really asking, is that you don't have any control over which adipocytes release fat. Norepinephrine and the other hormones released during exercise do not discriminate. That is, they stimulate adipocytes to release fat wherever they are located. We all have patterns of weight loss and weight gain that tend to repeat (you typically gain and lose weight in the same pattern over and over), and we don't have any control over this.
Best wishes
Chillen