Hello everyone welcome to Fit Body Happy Joints. My name is Shannon. Today we have Doug Brignoli back on the podcast.

Doug is former Mr. Universe. He is the author of the Physics of Resistance Exercise, which is an excellent book that I have

read multiple times it has a ton a ton of great information in it and today we're

talking about the abs we're talking about some myths around the abs we talk about

kind of spot treating the lower abs and we also get into an interesting discussion

about how the anatomy of the abs will lend itself to certain exercises over others.

So although this episode is short and sweet, I think it is packed with really good information

and lots of kind of myth busting.

So I hope you enjoy here's Doug can you target the

upper abs versus the lower abs okay good question very good question because you

know if you were to Google lower abs you'll get like 35 million searches

Right so people want to know right the first thing I would say to someone when they say to me, you how do I work the lower abs I would say why do you

want to work the lower abs and there's usually one of two reasons or both that they give me they

either say well I have fat down there I want to get rid of the fat that's down there.

And so then I say, so you believe in spot reduction.

Now, they know they're not supposed to believe in spot reduction.

So they usually say, well, no, I don't believe in spot reduction, but I would just think maybe I can tone.

So you think you can take the fat and make it harder?

Or you can like convert it into muscle or something it's like it's just a storage

tank that's all it is you either add to or subtract from you can't harden it and you

can't convert it you can either just add to it or subtract from it.

So and that's impossible because the muscle that's working can't reach next door to the

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