Local fat reduction, or "pinpoint reduction" of fat, is the clever marketing trick most often used by unscrupulous fitness traders to sell you air. Contrary to what the ad claims, local fat burning is not possible. You cannot use exercise to burn fat exclusively in the desired area (in the waist area, for example). Fat can only be burned all over the body at the same time. The speed of this process depends on genetics, gender (hormones), age. Any exercises on the abdominal muscles will only train their physical qualities, and not burn the layer of fat above them. Therefore, no matter how many lying twists you do, there will be less fat in the waist area from this.
Fat in our body is stored in fat cells as triglyceride. This is our energy reserve for an emergency, conceived by nature. And when there is a need for fat consumption (energy is needed, raw materials for hormones, etc.), then the trigleniride must first be split into smaller fragments: fatty acids and glycerin. In fact, this is called lipolysis or fat burning. Glycerin and fatty acids that are formed as a result of lipolysis leave the cell and enter the bloodstream, which transports these substances to the place of use.
The order to start lipolysis (fat breakdown) in the cell is given by the corresponding hormone traveling through the bloodstream. There are a lot of these hormones, and each begins to be released depending on the specific situation. When danger threatens, it's adrenaline. If you are hungry and your body has low sugar levels, then the hormone glucagon. If you're darn hungry and you're doing heavy physical or mental stress, then cortisol. Growth hormone - somatotropin will be produced at night to ensure construction and energy processes.
All of these hormones are capable of giving the order to break down fat (lipolysis). But this is not at all important for us. It is important for us that all hormones in any case circulate evenly through the bloodstream. You cannot force the hormone to circulate in any one place (in the abdomen, for example). It's impossible! If the corresponding hormone is produced, then it will interact with all the fat cells of the body.
This is a scientific explanation of why you cannot burn fat strictly in the waist area, without reducing its amount elsewhere. Fat-burning hormones will always interact with your entire body, but with different effects! Fat will not go off equally in all places. Somewhere faster, but somewhere very slow. This is due to capillarization and the number of required receptors in the muscles.
Evolution has provided for a number of "convenient" places for storing fat (belly, buttocks, thighs), where it is stored and stored more actively. On the other hand, there are a number of places where fat is not convenient to store, and therefore it is poorly stored there (wrists, ankles, calves, etc.) and burns out first. The rule here is very simple: the less fat in a particular place, the faster it burns there and the worse it is deposited. The more fat in a particular place, the more difficult and slower it is broken down there.
One more moment. Lipolysis or fat breakdown is not a guarantee of getting rid of it. It's just that the broken down fat, roughly speaking, gets into the bloodstream and floats there in a convenient form for use as energy, for example. If you do not use it (do not burn it for training or as a result of a diet), then after a while it will return to the fat cell.
I would like to dispel another very popular myth about mechanical and thermal fat burning. We are talking about losing weight with a variety of massages (anti-cellulite, fat burning, etc.), saunas, baths, all kinds of vibrators for shaking fat, special belts for weight loss and other obscurantism. Fat breakdown is essentially a normal chemical reaction (breaking down triglycerides into fatty acids). From this it can be concluded that the fat in the body cannot be “melted” or “squeezed out” from the fat cell. And a variety of procedures, such as massages, baths, saunas and other things, can solve the only problem - to activate increased blood flow in your fatty tissues, improve blood circulation in the muscles. Of course, the more active the blood supply, the more the necessary hormones will get to your fat cells. But this is just an improvement in transport routes and nothing more. Without the right eating habits and competent training, fat will remain in place, despite all the tricks.
