Fats Facts

Fat is a type of cell in our body that helps to store excess energy that we had in take for future use.

Many people assume that when we exercise we are reducing the amount of fat cells in our body but in actual fact, the amount of fat cells in our body are fixed and cannot be reduce. What we want is to reduce the amount of "energy" stored in the fat cells for us to look leaner.

The next misconception is that fats will convert to muscles which is wrong. Muscles will get it's energy source from fat cells in order for the muscles to do work. Muscles only grow when you ingest protein.

So how do we really reduce the amount of excess energy stored in the fat cells? Well like what is mentioned above, muscles feed on fats. So what we need is to work out our muscles by training the big muscles like the legs, back and chest in the form of cardio and weights training.

Have you ever think about how your body actually deposit excess energy disproportionately in different parts of our body? For guys it will be more towards the tummy area while for gals will be towards the hip and thigh area.

Does that mean we need to train our tummy and hip muscles more to reduce the amount of fats there? The answer is NO. Trying to train a specific area to reduce the fats around that area is call spot training and spot training will not help at all.

First you need to understand how the body works. When you are working out and your muscles are hungry for energy, your body will distribute energy from the fat cells all around your body to your muscles not just those that are near the muscle your are working out. Also like how excess energy is disproportionately distribute to your fat cells, your body also disproportionately hands out energy from fat cells to the muscles. The energy storage and energy usage in fat cells are proportional, those area where you store energy faster also burn energy faster and those area which store slower will also burn slower.

So what you need to help reduce overall fats is to do full body work out so that all your major muscles can help to eat away access energy stored in fat cells. Hope I answered the ultimate question about fats.