Spot Reduction Does Not Exist: Across 37 Comparisons, Trained Limbs Lost Slightly Less Fat Than Untrained Ones

Ask a gym floor what builds a flat stomach and you will hear crunches. Ask what tones a soft arm and you will hear high repetitions with light weights. Both answers rest on the same underlying belief - that working a muscle removes the fat sitting over it - and that belief has now been tested directly, in a design clean enough to settle it. The result is unambiguous, and it clears away several other myths in passing.

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