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How do I lose this right here?!
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How do I lose this right here? The surprising answer to this begins with me not even needing to know where your trouble spot is! I already know that it’s fat that you’re talking about! I take great joy in having the honor and privilege of breaking this news to you… If you are asking “How do I lose this right here?” that tells me something you don’t know. Well, here it is!
You can’t CHOOSE to lose it right there!
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This fact is very profound when you compare it to today’s (and especially yesterday’s) infomercials and marketing schemes. This rule applies to all aerobic equipment and exercises, the total body exercisers, and especially the AB exercises and AB machines. This is one of the first things I learned in school and probably the last thing you will ever hear on an infomercial. Why? It doesn’t make millions! So… don’t buy anything or start a program until you apply this rule. Do you want to burn off that spare tire, that lower abdominal pooch, those inner thighs? A guy can do 2000 sit ups a day to burn off that gut or a woman could do inner thigh exercises until she could pop a basketball between her knees. It is not going to burn the fat in that targeted area!
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Unfortunately no one (besides your plastic surgeon) can choose where the bodyfat is going to come off. It doesn’t matter how effective the exercise is, we cannot choose! We all need to accept the fact that men carry their fat in the mid-section and women carry it in the hips. Most likely the first place we want the fat to come off is the last place that it will. As we start burning fat, it’s kind of like a business making cutbacks. Last hired, first fired! The last place you put fat on is the first place it will come off. Remember that first bit of chub you ever noticed way back when? That is going to be the last place it comes off! Bummer, eh?
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A wise woman in my life uses the perfect analogy… It’s like melting butter in the microwave. You cannot choose a certain spot to melt first. It’s just going to melt where it wants to. I feel that it is my job to make sure that you get your cube in the microwave. You may not like the rules but take heart my dear people! Even if that fat trouble spot on your stick of butter is not melting where you want it to, if you apply this knowledge, it will inspire you to know that your butter is cooking baby!
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Now, fortunately, God does allow us to choose how we are going to melt our own butter. I look at this as a blessing in disguise. All we have to do sustain our heart rate! Get your favorite exercise up to the appropriate heart rate and you are burning calories! If you like to walk, then walk! Tennis? Bicycle? Play Frisbee? Swim? Chase the kids? Whatever! I don’t care! Anything at a moderate sustainable intensity will work!
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Forget about all the marketing… “half body, half the workout, neglecting your upper body, or don’t you owe it to yourself to get a total body workout?” Here is a tip. Your legs are always going to have the most endurance to begin with. We use our legs everyday, month after month, year after year. They can tolerate a lot of punishment. It’s the largest muscle group in your body with the most fat burning endurance fibers. You must take advantage of that! It is very important that you choose your aerobic exercise or equipment to be sport specific to what you want to improve on. In other words runners and walkers should get treadmills, cyclists get bikes, skiers get ski machines, and so on. If you do not have a specific hobby background then just do something that you can do on a regular basis. Pick something realistic that you could see yourself doing daily. Some exercises are better than others but if you don’t like do it, who cares how good it is!
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Jumping jacks on Mt. Everest ranks #1 but it’s a bit inconvenient! Hiking is great but what if you live in Kansas? Keep it simple, realistic, and feasible! If walking your neighborhood is the most realistic, there you go! Stairclimber at the gym, fine! Stationary bike at home, in front of the TV, great! Keep it simple and accumulate that activity! That’s the best simple answer I’ve got.
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Of course there are some secrets to help you lose this right here…
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