If you lose it all over why does it matter?

[Anonymous]

I heard that you can't target where you lose weight. So if you lose weight all over your body when you workout why do people recommend certain exercises for specific parts of your body?

[redeyemindtricks]

That's not the point of the exercises. The point of the exercises is to build muscle.

Fat loss from exercise will mostly come from all over yr body, yeah.
Once you get REALLY lean, though -- meaning, under about 15-18 percent body fat (= about 9-11 percent for men) -- that's when that's no longer true, and the fat that disappears (if any) will come from different places depending on (1) what kind of exercise yr doing, (2) what yr eating, and (3) yr nutritional state when you perform the exercise (fasted vs. fed vs. whatever, for instance).
If you are all the way down at those levels of leanness -- just google "body fat percentages in pictures" and look at what WOMEN with 15-18 percent fat look like -- then, we can talk about how to target fat in different places on yr body. If you aren't, then, nah.

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Incidentally, the research shows that you CAN eliminate fat from specific areas on yr body, with transdermal (= rubbed into the skin) drugs. Here are a couple of the studies on that, if you want some basic reading on it:

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2270889/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8697059

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17391155

Those ingredients are not the easiest things in the world to find, but, if you are persistent, you can acquire them (if you are already at a level of leanness where it would actually make sense for you to be looking into things like that).

[swiftsaver602]

Because you can't target fat in those areas, but you can target muscle.

[WeaponZero]

Because of muscle building and maintaining muscle through fat loss.

[Cantfindone]

because you need muscle to be healthy for that part body

[Other_Tommy_Wiseau]

you heard wrong

[Other_Tommy_Wiseau]

and you exercise parts to gain muscle

[Asker]

So you can target weight loss?

[Other_Tommy_Wiseau]

you can't target fat, but you can target muscle