Who like to see rolls of fat on their body?
Very few people like to look fat. Dieting, exercise, very low carloie diets (VLCD) replacements shakes, all can get you to lose weight, but they may not reduce body fat. Some people have a genetic predisposition to have certain areas of fat that will not budge. Liposuction, liposculpture, body sculpture and abdominaoplasty have been the traditional methods to attain a desireable body shape. There is no doubt that these mehtods work but are there other options?
Things are changing in the world of body reshaping. There are injections that can reduce body fat. There are now very good non invassive methods to reshape the body with RF (radiofrequency) technology and other technologies.
There have been advances in liposuction with the introduction of 3rd generation ultrsound assisted liposucion, the "vaser" being a well know trade name, and increase accuracy of laser assisted liposuction, with the "smartlipo" also making a name for itself.
Finally surgical options are getting small and more refined and safer.
This web site hope to explore the possiblities and open the door to body shape improvement for many.
Can you exercise fat away from specific areas?
Persaonal trainers often get asked "show me an exercise to lose my love handles“ and the media and marketers have taken full advantage this belief to produce an infomercials and equipment designed to work "specifically" on the stomach, thighs, to give you "toned" legs or "buns of steel".
The misconception of burning fat from a specific area of the body has been proven by research. In 1984, Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport reported that thirteen males did a total of 5000 sit-ups in 27 days. Biopsies of the subject’s fat cells were used to measure the change in fat cell diameter. The results showed that the subjects lost fat equally from the stomach, glutes, and upper back even though they only worked their abdominals. In a six-month long study of women who mainly did leg exercises for approximately nine hours per week lost an average of 5.7 pounds of fat. The Journal of Applied Physiology, the periodical that published this study, reported that the distribution of fat loss was 2.9 pounds from the trunk, 2.8 pounds from the arms, and 0 from their thighs. Their weekly nine hours of leg work resulted in zero fat loss from their thighs! In a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine in 1971, where world-class tennis players were tested to see if spot reduction could help in reducing the fat from the arms. The idea behind this study was that if spot reduction worked, the players would have one arm that's leaner than the other. Obviously, tennis players use their dominant arms forcefully everyday while doing relatively little with their non-dominant arms. Though the researchers did find the dominant arm to be bigger due to more muscle tone, there was no difference at all between arms in fat thickness. This study showed that working a certain muscle does not necessarily affect the fat deposits that may be lying above that muscle.
It is common knowledge that weight loss is achieved by healthy eating and moderate to intense exercise.
