Your new client wants to lose fat around their abdomen. They claim to have tried sit-ups, crunches, and every ab machine on the market but to no avail. In one sentence succinctly EXPLAIN WHY this attempt to decrease their fat at a specific spot is NOT physiologically even possible.
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Fat loss occurs throughout the body as a result of a calorie deficit, not through localized exercise. Show more…
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