Re: Intense work outs for lower abs
Spot reduction does not exist and if it does, its effects and insignificant enough to regard them non-existent.
When you say those muscles will turn to jiggle if you don’t condition them and keep doing the treadmill, you’re mistaken. Working those muscles will keep them conditioned, yes. But not working them will not make turn them into jelly. They will still be there, just means you’ll have to work on the treadmill much more.
Yeah, you can build muscle and condition the areas you are targeting but that is not spot reduction. Spot reduction means losing fat in specific areas of your body. And you can’t really have that. What building muscle and toning the areas does is give an illusion that you have less fat because, well, more muscle shows through.
Area-specific exercises have been around but that is not spot reduction. They are exactly how you said it; area-specific exercises to build more muscle and condition.
I’m not saying don’t do targeted exercises. I’m saying doing targeting exercises is not the way to lose fat from a particular area; it is a way to build more muscle in a particular area.
You can do a thousand crunches every single day for years and years but that will never give you a six pack. True story. That will give you the most amazing six packs hidden under a layer of fat. Another true story.
Work on your whole body and that’s the only way you’ll lose fat from your entire body. Slowly but surely.