Publisher's Synopsis
Where does your body store fat?What causes fat in different parts of your body? Have you ever wondered why you store fat where you do?Can you change where your body stores fat?Are there other strategies aside from diet, training, and building muscle can help you reclaim your body and burn the fat?From love handles to beer bellies to bat wings and muffin tops, this quick guide tries to uncover much of the science behind the reasons we store fat where we do and how to burn it. From training to diet to hormones, sleep, supplements, and more, this book looks into the science of problem area fat storage; aka STUBBORN FAT.As we age, our hormones seem to begin to develop a mind of their own, impacting our energy levels and directing our body to store fat in certain areas. Staying lean (never mind getting leaner) becomes more and more challenging with each passing year. Work, lack of sleep, environment, mineral imbalances, gender, ph balance, ethnicity, stress, food sensitivities, lack of exercise, poor food choices, nutritional timing, etc .... can all play a role in wreaking havoc on your body's continued battle against the bulge.What's inside: Chapter I: Nature vs Nurture Are we genetically predisposed to how fat we become (and where we store it)? Can what your parents and grandparents ate impact your body composition? How big of a role does the environment we grow up in play in fat accumulation?This chapter breaks down the research on the role genetics, epigenetics, and environment play in weight and body fat accumulation.Chapter 2: Finishing the Frusen Gladje In this chapter we delve into: - The body's different types of fat including visceral, subcutaneous, brown, brite, and Cellulite. - The roles they play in inflammation, hormone secretion, and fat burning. - Research on how to become fat adapted through EPOC, training, supplementation, and more.Chapter 3: Hormones, Skinfolds, and Fat Storage This chapter gives you the science on how your hormones, gender, ethnicity, and types of training impact how and why we store fat where we do? For example: - Did you know that the ratio of triceps fat to shoulder blade fat has been linked to cardiovascular risk factors? - Did you also know that studies have linked the hormone Insulin and blood sugar to the fat on your sides just above your hip bones (you know, the love handles) and the fat on the inside of your shoulder blade?Chapter 4: The Battle Against the Bulge This chapter discusses: - Gender differences in response to training. (Did you know that a scientific study found that women actually sweat less and at higher body temperatures than men?) - Supplements that can aid in re-balancing the body's hormones - Sleep and the impact sleep deprivation has on your hormones - Weight Training is like therapy for your hormones - The hormonal impacts of different types of training including high rep vs low rep, 2-a-day workouts, weight, density, olympic lifting, manual labor and more. - Other factors including stress, thermoregulation, intermittent fasting, carb backloading, alcohol, hydration and more.Chapter 5: Putting it All Together This final chapter includes: - A 4 week "Hormonal Therapy" weight training program. - Special challenge workouts - Examples (and breakdown) of 19 foods that can support training and can help in battling stress - Workout and regimen examples for glutes and belly fatIf work and other life commitments have gotten in the way of your training and diet, and you're frustrated you can't get rid of that stubborn fat in certain areas, this book may be for you. Or, if you just want to learn more about the science of why we store fat where we do, this book may also be for you. Pick up your copy today and start winning back in the battle against the bulge.
