If you were to get your weight loss advice from social media, fitness magazines, and internet ads, then you’d probably have seen the 100 ways to target those stubborn love handles or stomach muscles as we call them 

Just about 4 years back, Mike Chang is the man with a vastly popular programme called the Six Pack Shortcuts. In fact, there are workouts that are specifically designed to target your midsection, and marketed as the solution, and leading you to believe that you can effectively focus fat loss on specific areas of your body.

When I was younger, I fell into this trap as well. Like a lot of guys, I wanted to lose my stomach fats as well. So it was a lot of cardio for me. I didn’t know much about gym workouts back in those days, and running is really a popular way to lose weight, as there are competitions organised on a weekly basis in sunny Singapore. That is for people who are already physically active. Unfortunately there are products in the market that dupes people into buying for the sake of a slimmer waist, for instance, stomach gels, slimming belts, or even  vibration machines. To be honest, my kids love the vibration machines when they were still very popular a few years back. But I look at it more as an entertainment machine than one that actually delivers what it is promising.

How do you achieve fat loss?

The only way to lose fat is to maintain a caloric deficit over a period of time.

This means either eating less or exercising more – although it generally comes down to the former, since there are only so many calories that you can burn at the gym without overtraining.

Yes, the truth is that you can do all the crunches in the world, and it won’t do anything to target the fat around your abs.

You may strengthen your abdominal muscles, but you won’t specifically be burning stomach fat.

So can I still have nice abs?

You can definitely lose the fat there, but you also must lose it from other areas of your body at the same time.

Your arms, your legs, your back, your neck, and even your face.

As you decrease your calories and start losing weight, you’ll notice that fat will start disappearing from all of these areas, in addition to around your stomach.

But you simply can’t target your stomach fat separately, so don’t get tricked by the newest product in the market that promises the sky.

Have you been tricked by such fat loss tactics? Let me know about it in the comments below.

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