This article on BioSignature Modulation and spot reduction first appeared in Men’s Fitness magazine a couple of issues ago. It was written by myself and the redoubtable top personal trainer Glenn Parker and tells the story of how all those who tell you that spot reduction is impossible are looking at the world through a straw! Charles Poliquin has developed a unique system known as BioSignature Modulation and with it’s intelligent application (note I stress INTELLIGENT application) it can be a fabulous tool for assisting in some radical physique transformations!
Here is the original piece on BioSignature Modualtion:
Men’s Fitness readers are a canny bunch. You know that it’s impossible to spot reduce those love handles. Every expert you have ever read has told you that spot reduction is impossible and that fat is lost from all over the body and never from one localised place. Only a dummy who buys those “electro stimulation for lean abs” kits on the Shopping Channel would ever think otherwise.
Yet stop and think for a minute. Never automatically buy into anything a so-called expert tells you, let’s use a bit of logical reasoning. Some of you will want to drop fat from the belly, other from the love handles. And no doubt there are some of you with the dreaded man boobs – you guys have got bigger problems than ugly fat deposits, squatting to pee and needing cuddles after sex to name but two. Now if all fat is the same and you can’t selectively “burn it off”, then why on earth does it sit its lardy self at different speeds, in different quantities, on different parts of our bodies? If all fat is equal then it would be laid down in a nice even layer everywhere on everybody.
Which raises the subject of the second aspect of fat distribution that I’d like you stop and ponder awhile on. When you see Betty, sorry I mean Benny, sashaying across the football pitch with his training bra firmly holding his mighty “pecs” in place, what do you automatically think to yourself? If it’s “this poor chap has localised body fat distribution patterns consistent with female hormone issues, most notably the aromatisation of testosterone into estrogen” and /or “Benny is turning into a bird” then full marks and go to the top of the class. It shouldn’t then take a genius to figure out that if we address Benny’s hormonal issues then his man boobs should thankfully become a thing of the past. And if we can apply this theory to one area of local fat distribution, then we can also apply it to all the other areas too. And hey presto, spot reduction is therefore possible.
Nature versus Nurture – we are slaves to both
Any disproportionate distribution of body fat is caused by a combination of your own genetics and unique biochemistry interacting with your environment. In other words, nature and nurture combining. This is because different genotypes mean differing hormonal reactions and this in turn means a different distribution of body fat. The lesson here should be obvious – he who controls hormones controls body composition.
BioSignature Modulation – you can control your hormones
The credit for formulating the system that has allowed us to dissect fat distribution patterns, their hormonal causes, and the ways to then modulate the hormonal profile so as to optimise body fat composition (spot reduce in other words) goes to Charles Poliquin. This hormonal optimisation system, known as BioSignature Modulation, is, in the hands of a skilled practitioner with experience of fine tuning body composition, the single most effective way to get in shape because everything is tailored to the individual’s unique biochemistry. Modulating endogenous hormonal levels takes skill and all aspects of an individual’s physical and mental influences need to be scrutinised – gym and diet are important yes, but the chain being only as strong as its weakest link cliché holds very true also. An optimal hormonal profile is only achieved via a balanced approach that covers every permutation of the correct and highly individual-specific protocols for exercise, nutrition, supplementation with herbal and other related products, sleep, digestion, relaxation, and any other lifestyle factor that can impact upon physical, emotional, and mental energies.
Lessons to be Learned
Always question what you are told and think through the logic in everything that is “supposed” to happen to your body. Look to the real reasons as to why your body behaves differently from that of your friends, and remember that the optimal hormonal profile for both muscle building and spot reduction is within your control.
About the Author:
Glenn Parker is a personal trainer and BioSignature coach with Nick Mitchell’s London based Ultimate Performance Team (www.UPFitness.co.uk)
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