Spot Reducing?

So as everyone knows from either experience or the constant wave of advice and tips from videos and doctors: you cannot spot reduce.

What is spot reducing?

It is where you focus on any specific part of your body (stomach/thighs/arms) and try to target all weight loss to that general area.

Why does this not work?

The body distributes weight as evenly as your bone structure allows and thus your body will lose the weight evenly, thus if you try to target just your legs while you will be toning what muscle you do have you are burning calories and fat all over not just in your legs. 

So...what do you do?

Obviously the fastest and easiest way to get rid of fat is to build and tone muscle because muscles takes up more space than fat and when you have muscles you are burning more calories and fat through out the day. You cannot tone muscle if you have none (I shouldn't say 'none' but you get the point) as no matter how many crunches you do you will NOT get abs! You must lose the weight first by BUILDING muscle (Red & Green veggies, and protein are KEY) When the fat layer is gone or greatly diminished then you can tone, make the muscles more lean and thus having sculpted muscles.

Target areas? 

So, in order to build muscle (red & leafy green veggies along with protein from egg whites/legumes/nuts) you should be working out 45 minutes to an hour a day, 6 days a week each day using workouts that target two or three different places, this way you are strengthening your muscles all over, if you focus on just one spot all week you could be doing more harm than good. PLUS you lose way more when you workout all target areas rather than just one! 

Workouts?

(let us for the sake of this post say you use Sunday as a rest day)

the week (example) :

Monday: Arms and Legs 

Tuesday: Legs and Bum

Wednesday: Bum and Back

Thursday: Back and Stomach

Friday: Stomach and Bum

Saturday: Bum and Arms

All the while you can add cardio to your routine everyday to do an all over 

(dancing, step aerobics, running, jumping jacks (cardio, and legs/bum/arm workout)

All you should be doing is learning about calories, how many you're putting in and how to get every single one out.