Holding a lot of fat in my legs; any suggestions on cutting it?

[randy.chaffin]

I'm about 6 weeks out from my show. I feel like my upper body is getting vascular, however, not my legs! I'm not taking fat burners yet. Just diet and cardio. Please help! Thanks!!

[bwelch1985]

just gotta keep losing it from every where brotha! no way to spot reduce fat, just have to keep the scale moving down in general. hit the cardio hard and reduce calories if need be.

[juliacheh]

As Britt said, nothing else you can do but keep losing.
By the time my lower body gets lean, my upper body is shredded.

[bwelch1985]

As Britt said, nothing else you can do but keep losing.
By the time my lower body gets lean, my upper body is shredded.

hell, by the time my lower body gets shredded, i wonder if there'll be anything left of my upper body! damn this fat booty!

[juliacheh]

hell, by the time my lower body gets shredded, i wonder if there'll be anything left of my upper body! damn this fat booty!

I feel so sorry for you, really.

Thank God, I'll never have to diet down to striated glutes.

You are doing great!

[randy.chaffin]

I feel so sorry for you, really.

Thank God, I'll never have to diet down to striated glutes.

You are doing great!

That's what I was afraid of! I've been hitting the cardio pretty hard. I have a feeling my trainer will be reducing my calories on Monday! Thanks a lot for the responses!

[brianmt]

Hey hope it's not too late for a bit of advice. While you can't spot reduce fat as you know you can stimulate an area to where it becomes "over-stimulated" or "over-trained" which will actually reduce the fat in that area. Think about marathon runners like for example the really older men (70+) you see running that every time they take a step you can see all the striations in their legs yet the rest of their body is sagging or has a bit of fat. Anyways to sum this up just start a cardio regimine now, since you should for conditioning anyways. I'd do 40 or 50 minutes 4 weeks out at a medium-pace cardio, and increase 10 minutes every week (6 days a week) this will increase your conditioning and bring out striations all over.

[officer8923]

From my experience, what everyone else has been saying about cardio is true. You have to get the cardio going to tone the legs.

Another tip, do high reps on the squats and lunges. Higher reps will help pull the skin tighter to the muscle along with burning extra calories to rid the fat.

[woofman81]

From my experience, what everyone else has been saying about cardio is true. You have to get the cardio going to tone the legs.

Another tip, do high reps on the squats and lunges. Higher reps will help pull the skin tighter to the muscle along with burning extra calories to rid the fat.

Broscience much?

[simpleguy4]

From my experience, what everyone else has been saying about cardio is true. You have to get the cardio going to tone the legs.

Another tip, do high reps on the squats and lunges. Higher reps will help pull the skin tighter to the muscle along with burning extra calories to rid the fat.

Bigger muscles (ie:heavier weight) will "help pull the skin tighter".......high reps didn't build the muscle and high reps won't allow you to hang onto muscle. Keep doing what got you there in the weight room and allow the diet and cardio take care of the fat.

[necichef86]

I know five minutes of running up and down a real set of stairs plus leg workouts with 15-20 rep range contributed to leaning out my legs and glutes