Question:
My husband has been overweight and in the past year has dropped 100 pounds. He looks a lot better but he still has extra fat remaining on his chest area. He feels he has large man-boobs and he wants to know how to get rid of them and his tummy. Any help would be great. He is doing some weight lifting but that doesn’t seem to be helping the chest area.
Answer:
This is actually a really common problem in men carrying extra bodyfat or who used to carry extra bodyfat. Some of the extra fat ends up going to the nipple area of the chest, making it look puffy there and resulting in what can be described as “man boobs.”
Unfortunately, spot training (training to lose fat in one specific area of the body) doesn’t work. That, however, doesn’t mean that you can’t fix the man boob problem you’ve got!
When you train and eat to burn fat, your body releases fat from all over the place rather than just from one specific spot like the chest. This means that when he loses fat from his body, he’ll see results all over his body, including his chest area. It may not happen immediately but it will definitely happen.
Here are some articles on fat-burning that may help him.
10 Things You Can Do To Lose Fat Without Even Trying
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As far as weight training exercises for the chest goes, I would recommend push-ups if you are at home and/or bench presses if you have access to a gym. If you have access to an incline bench press, that would be the best as increasing the size of the upper chest will diminish the appearance of the lower chest.
Also, if you have access to equipment such as dumbells (which are great for using at home), you can perform bench presses and dumbell flyes very easily - they’re both very effective exercises for working the chest.
The barbell bench press is going to be one of your primary exercises.
Doing the weight exercises won’t cause him to lose fat in the chest area but they will help build and strengthen the muscle in the chest area. Building the pectoral muscles of the chest (especially the upper pec area) while dropping extra fat overall will help to reduce the appearance of “man boobs.”
These are just a few strategies on how to get rid of man boobs!
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