Spot reduction (localized fat burning) can happen with the right exercise routines. If your exercise routines include these body fat reduction drills, you will experience localized fat burning in your trouble spots, like thighs (leg exercises). I will explain how to burn fat in your thunder thighs. You must be willing to commit to simple, brief, yet hardcore exercise routines.
You’ve heard that spot reduction doesn’t work, that in order to lose fat, a person must exercise the entire body to burn fat all over. However, more recent scientific studies show that fat burning can occur in isolated areas, provided you employ special exercise routines; no gimmicks; just hard good ol’ fashioned exercise routines that will burn fat like never before.
Here’s how local fat burning works:
Suppose you have a lot of body fat in your thighs. Maybe you’ve lied on the floor on your side, and done thousands of reps of raising your leg up and down, hoping this would burn fat in your thighs. If you can do a ton of these, this proves that the resistance level is very light for the muscles involved. When the resistance is light for the involved muscles, the body can take its time getting energy for these working muscles. This means that the body takes fat (for energy to the working muscles) from all over the body. There is no rush to provide the muscles with energy, so the body gets away with taking pudge from anywhere in the body.
Now, suppose you were to pedal a stationary bike at a high pedal resistance, for absolutely as hard as you can. Between the high pedal resistance, and 110 RPMs, after just 30 seconds of this, your thigh muscles feel ready to explode. You are pedaling so hard, against this high resistance, that come 30 seconds, you are totally drained, heaving for breath, and can only keep moving with a light resistance and 70 RPMs.
You pedal gently for a few minutes, then return to that 30-second spike at over 100 RPMs at high pedal resistance. Then you pedal gently for a few minutes. Keep alternating for 30 minutes like this.
This kind of exercise is so harsh on the muscles, that the muscles need IMMEDIATE energy during that 30 seconds. The fastest way for the body to deliver the quickest energy to the thigh muscles, is to take energy from the pudge that’s stored…IN YOUR THIGH muscles !
If you’re pounding the thigh muscles, the thigh muscles will feed off the nearest source of fat…the fat that is located within the thigh muscles. Fat is basically stored in two places: between the skin and muscles, and WITHIN the muscles. The fat within muscles is called intramuscular fat. You’ve seen intramuscular fat: that white gunky stuff in cuts of steak.
By burning fat within muscles, you’re literally spot reducing on those thunder thighs. Another way to spot reduce fat thighs is to do barbell squats or leg presses, but with a heavy enough load that you can barely do 8 repetitions. And I mean barely. Nine would be impossible. Again, this creates such an intense need for IMMEDIATE energy, that your leg muscles will grab fat from the quickest source of energy: the fat that’s on location – right in your thigh muscles. When you burn fat this way, you’ll get trimmer and tighter.
Frequency of routines: stationary bike: twice a week for 30 minutes; and leg presses, twice a week, three sets each session.
