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Man Boobs - Can You Spot Reduce Fat on the Chest

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From: Antonio [mailto:antonio*******@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 5:44 PM
To: rob@formerfatguy.com
Subject: Man Boobs

Hi, first of all I have to say that your story is very inspiring and I thank you for sharing it.

Your story is something that I grab onto when I think about myself and, that indeed it is possible.

I've been fat most of my life and I got tired of it. So, for the last couple of months I've been eating less and doing some cardio. I've lost like 20 lbs but still have a long way to go and I'm also adding some weight training.

What concerns me now is my MAN BOOBS. I seem to be losing weight everywhere except my chest and it's very annoying. In your before and after pics you seemed to have a good result in this sense, whas it all just exercise? did the boobs disappear with a bunch of bench presses or just the overall weight loss process? did you have surgery to correct them?

Thanks I'll appreciate any comment, I'm kinda worried about this.

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A: awesome question, and very well put! You have a way with words... "Man boobs" LOL

First of all, very good job on making the decision to do something and with the results. Never give up, no matter what.

I did have man boobs, yep. I have not had surgery, nope. As I have dropped the fat over the years, I've seen it disappear at different spots at different times.

here's the deal.

You can't spot reduce fat. Your body uses fat as energy from various places around your body as it sees fit. When you get to a point where you're a lot leaner and still working it, you can see it happen all over, it's really cool. For awhile, your arms might get leaner, then your abs, then your legs and calves, then your chest. The body seems to burn the fat at various rates from various parts in the manner it decides, not you. I call this the "vanity issue". We want a results, but our body has different concerns. The same is true of your health. When people start on the whole food program I recommend, they ask how long it'll be before they get results and I tell them that they're body may have different needs for the new energy being supplied. You have to trust in the wisdom of the body and just never give up.

I have to constantly talk to myself and tell myself that what I'm doing is right. I have days where I see no results and my mind starts to go into overdrive telling me it's not worth it and I might as well stop. I figure that if I can talk myself out of it, I can just as easily talk myself back into it. I tell myself that everything I'm doing is exactly right and just to play it out. My goal date is a few months off and at THAT time, I can decide if I'm getting the results I want. Knowing just to keep going gets me to my next weigh in and caliper day where I see that I am getting conclusive results. So, trust me, keep at it, never give up and remember that if you can just as easily talk yourself into keeping at it as easily as out of it. It just depends on your focus.

It was not the bench press that got rid of my chest fat, it's cardio that burns fat. Ps, it's the muscle that's needed in order to burn fat, and it's the cardio that makes muscle more efficient at burning the fat. You MUST weight train along with cardio. I recommend splitting it up for maximum efficiency and do no more than an hour at a time of any weight training. Any more and you're working against yourself.

I split it into two sessions, 1 hour of HIIT cardio in the morning (I would not start here if you're not doing any really aggressive cardio), and 1 hour of weight training in the evening. If I had to do them both together, I'd weight train for 40 minutes then cardio for 20 per session, but splitting it up has major benefits.

here's the good news. I read somewhere that the body stores fat at the places where the potential for the most amount of muscle exists. That is, if we carry a lot of fat around the chest, our potential for a huge chest is better as the body uses that fat as energy. That's what I read anyway. I believe proof is in the pudding over what I read. I read, try , record the results. Keep what works, discard what doesn't.

BTW, if the statement above was REALLY true, there would be a lot of guys in their 40's with the potential for killer abs, LOL.






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Man Boobs - Can You Spot Reduce Fat on the Chest
was posted by Rob @ 10:33 AM