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Exercise Session
Trainer X didn’t disappoint this past weekend as I made sure to get some training in one way or another. And no, I don’t count raking leaves, walking a dog or chasing kids around as exercise. Any endeavor …
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In the long term, work out is beneficial to the brain by increasing growth factors that help create new nerve cells. It is a common belief that work out and training a particular body part will preferentially shed the fat on that part; for example, that doing sit-ups is the most direct way to reduce subcutaneous belly fat. This is false: one cannot reduce fat from one area of the body to the exclusion of others. Most of the energy derived from fat gets to the muscle through the bloodstream and reduces stored fat in the entire body, from the last place where fat was deposited. Sit-ups may improve the size and shape of abdominal muscles but will not specifically target belly fat for loss. Such exercise might help reduce overall body fat and shrink the size of fat cells.
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