Is it possible to target areas for weight loss?

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I saw an episode of The Tyra Banks show once and a lady on it was saying that she achieved curves through targeting fat loss through exercise in certain areas. I just was wondering if that is possible. Because I would really like to slim down my waist line, legs, and arms but still keep the chest and butt i have now. are these certain exercises that can be done for that? to lose weight but not your butt or chest?
 
It's not possible to spot reduce that I know of, but it is possible to give the appearance of it. If the average, non-exercising person does a bunch of ab work, the gut will look trimmer, if only because of the increased muscle support. Maybe that effect led to people believing that spot reducing works.
 
no

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it is possible to spot develop muscle!

meaning, you can develop a tricept and it will help to pull the skin tighter on tyour bicept. Or back to abs, etc.

p.s. I think performance is a much better goal than appearance. Shoot for a performance goal, and appearance is a freebie!

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MushCreek said:
It's not possible to spot reduce that I know of, but it is possible to give the appearance of it. If the average, non-exercising person does a bunch of ab work, the gut will look trimmer, if only because of the increased muscle support. Maybe that effect led to people believing that spot reducing works.
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Not sure this would work for the abs, you'd end up with bigger ab muscles behind the same fat, which would just cause it to push out more.
 
I guess if you really do a lot of ab work, that would happen. I just mean the average schlub who starts working out a bit. That's what happened in my case, at any rate. People who don't work out at all have weak abs, and things tend to sag, especially as you get older.
 
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