“The average cyclist doesn’t need to worry too much: the basic things of improving diet quality, not eating mindlessly, training smart and progressively are going to do a lot more than doing ice baths to shed brown fat or what have you,” he says. He adds that it’s easy to “get stuck in the weeds” of fat loss and forget the basics. “Cyclists tend to have leaner legs than upper body, so anytime you do whole-body aerobic exercise you will lose fat everywhere, but it is more concentrated in the areas where the muscle is active.įor example, if you want to lose fat on your arms, Fitzgerald recommends swimming, which will activate your arm muscles. “People doing sit-ups to lose belly fat was scoffed at but more recent research has shown that there is site specificity,” he says. Matt Fitzgerald, author of Racing Weight: How to Get Lean for Peak Performance and co-founder of 80/20 endurance sport coaching, says “anatomically specific weight loss” is possible, but not from the belly. However, a more recent study concluded fat loss can be localised. A 2013 study found localised muscle resistance training led to the whole body becoming leaner, not specifically the area of the body trained. Scientists have examined what happens when participants lose weight while performing resistance and endurance training with a certain muscle group.
Whether you can target weight loss remains hotly disputed, but it’s arguably irrelevant. Abdominal exercises are better at strengthening your core than blasting belly fat.
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