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The Dr. Shannon Show

#156: Spot treating fat and cellulite

The Dr. Shannon Show

Dr. Shannon Ritchey, PT, DPT

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Fitness

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Many fitness methods claim to "tone your arms" or "slim your thighs." This is false advertising, with the assumption that you can "spot treat fat." Shannon breaks down the science of spot-treating fat and the efficacy of using exercise to improve/reduce cellulite in this episode. Podcasts Referenced: Exercise and leanness Nutrition and leanness with Hope Brandt, RD Where is your calorie burn plateau? 0:00: Introduction 1:30: What is body recomposition? 3:42: Does HIIT reduce belly f...

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0:00.0

Welcome back to Fit Buddy Happy Joins. My name is Shannon. I want to do a quick

0:04.4

podcast about spot-trading fat and cellulite because we often get asked about

0:09.0

this and I would love to have a resource to send to you all to give you some helpful

0:13.5

insight. Now this is not an open invitation to over obsess about every little

0:20.9

thing in our body that is not the intention of this episode.

0:25.3

The intention of this episode is to educate you

0:28.1

about how nutrition and

0:34.5

know that some of this is just gonna be part of being a woman and part of being a woman and part of being a woman means

0:41.1

we store fat in different places and we have

0:44.6

different anatomy of our fat cells which means that we're more prone to

0:48.3

cellulite and I also want you to just feel educated so that you have your eyes wide open because you will inevitably come across people that are trying to sell you fitness routines that are toning up your arms or tighten and

1:04.6

lifting your booty or getting rid of cellulite or whatever it might be. So I

1:09.2

I want to preface this by saying this is not something that I want to continue to talk about.

1:16.0

Like I don't love to talk about the aesthetic side of things.

1:18.8

I just want you to see this as an educational piece of content so that you truly can understand what's happening

1:26.1

in your body when you make certain choices with diet, lifestyle, and exercise.

1:30.6

So you can change the appearance of your body with exercise and diet.

1:36.0

This is true.

1:38.0

And maybe this is like a toned aesthetic or whatever you might have tightened a snatched aesthetic.

1:45.0

But basically what this is is body recomposition and this is where you lose fat and gain

1:51.0

muscle at the same time. Now people think that this is mostly exercise

1:55.2

when in reality it's a combination of exercise and diet.

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