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Fitness Tips For 11/19/2008
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Will Crunches Flatten My Stomach?
To Crunch Or Not To Crunch, That Is The Question.
By Carl Lanore
Everyone wants washboard abs but how exactly do you get them?
The answer has not been very clear and many professional
fitness trainers disagree about the proper way to achieve that
desirable mid section. This causes much confusion amongst
their clients. "Am I wasting my time doing hours of abdominal
work every week?"
For some time now there have been two schools of thought –
those who believe the only way to see your abs is to focus on
shedding whole-body fat levels through d iet and aerobic
exercise, and those who say that you have to do lots of
abdominal exercises to reduce the fat in you mid-section.
Up until now, many scoffed at the premise of exercise induced
spot-fat-reduction. Well the jury is finally in and it appears
that spot-fat reduction is a reality.
While whole body fat reduction is best served by reducing
caloric intake and performing aerobic exercise, there is now
evidence that the fat that is directly adjacent to the working
muscles burns at a higher rate than fat that is adjacent to
the resting muscles. It stands to reason, but until now, has
not been proven.
A study published this month by the Department of Medical
Physiology at the Panum Institute, University of Copenhagen
in Denmark showed that subjects who performed high repetition
leg extensions at varying intervals and resistance levels for
up to two hours with one leg at a time exhibited a higher
degree of fat oxidation in area directly adjacent to the
working leg muscles.
This increase in fat oxidation was irrespective to exercise
duration or intensity. The fat directly adjacent to the
working muscles burned at a higher rate than the resting
muscles. Period.
This increased fat oxidation was also associated with a
higher degree of blood flow to the local area of the working
muscles and adjacent fatty tissue. This may enhance the fats
ability to be carried away and disposed of by the liver thus
increasing the likelihood that the fat won't simply be
re-deposited elsewhere.
The take away from this study is very clear and should put
the debate over exercise induced spot-fat reduction to rest
once and for all. If you want to rid yourself of the fat
that covers a specific area of your body, such as your abs,
you'll have the greatest success if you focus on exercises
that work the muscles directly adjacent to the problem area.
If you want washboard abs you'll have to start doing more
abdominal work.
Carl Lanore is the host of Super Human Radio is the world's
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