How To Burn Back Fat

26 Jun 2024 · 1 min

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In this short monologue, fitness coach Eric Roberts debunks the myth of spot‑reduction for back fat. He explains that no specific exercise—whether heavy, light, high‑rep, or low‑rep—will directly burn fat from the back. While you can build muscle in a target area, overall fat loss is driven by a calorie deficit, with genetics determining where the body sheds fat first. Roberts advises viewers to keep lifting heavy weights while maintaining a calorie deficit, promising that results will follow.

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If you want a great exercise to burn that stubborn back fat, then it's certainly not going to be this exercise right here. But if you do this exercise right here, this is still not going to burn any of your back fat. But if you do this exercise right here, because you're going to be doing lighter weight for higher reps, this exercise is still not going to burn any of your back fat. Because there is no exercise to burn fat from a specific area on your body. You can do exercises to build muscle in that area, but the way you lose back fat or arm fat or face fat is by eating in a calorie deficit. Your body's genetics pick and choose where you lose fat from first. Keep lifting heavy weights, eating in a calorie deficit, and I promise the results will come.