June 18th, 2008
How To Start Flattening Your Stomach, And Why Ab Gizmos Dont Work
Why you can’t spot-tone.
The manufacturers who sell gadgets to tone your abs don’t want you to know about spot-toning. They want you to think that increasing your abdominal muscle tone will make your stomach appear flatter.
Increasing muscle tone with the goal of burning fat from an area is what we call spot-toning. Fitness trainers know that spot-toning does not work: it is one of the oldest fitness myths.
Building muscle mass is not the same as losing fat. Muscle and fat are two different kinds of tissue. Our body knows they are different.