No, Virginia, there is no spot-reducing. (Apologies to Francis Church.) Your little friends are wrong.
It’s curious that after about a thousand years’ worth of “myth-busting” articles that proclaim there is no spot-reducing, people still believe that the way to eliminate, say, stomach flab, is to do crunches out the wazoo. Within the last week, two friends have asked me whether doing X (exercise that targets a specific muscle group) would accomplish Y (reduce fat atop that area of the body).
Nope, sorry. It would be nice to think so.
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