Pseudogynecomastia & Male Chest Fat
On the previous page we discussed gynecomastia, the condition whereby a man boob is made up of nothing but actual breast tissue. Now we’ll take a quick look at the second form of man boobs – pseudogynecomastia.
Firstly, let’s not beat around the bush. Pseudogynecomastia is basically chest fat. Nothing more, nothing less. That’s not to diminish the anguish the condition can cause people, because it’s not always easy to get rid of chest fat – it’s just that the term “pseudogynecomastia” makes it sound a lot more scary and complicated than it really is.
Wait a minute I hear you say, if it’s just a question of fat then why doesn’t every overweight male suffer from male breasts?
Well, have you ever noticed how in some women any extra weight goes straight to their hips or thighs or butt? Or how in other girls that weight shows up as an extra chubbiness of the arms or face? The thing is you could put 100 different overweight people in the same room and none of them would be exactly the same shape because fat distribution varies from person to person.
We all have specific areas of our bodies that accumulate fat faster and in greater quantities than others.
In the case of pseudo -gynecomastia sufferers the fat “hot spot” is the chest around your pectoral muscles. Once you get a substantial build up of fat there, you’re faced with a moob problem which can be hard to fix.
What causes Pseudo-gynecomastia?
The causes of pseudo-gynecomastia are simple. Poor diet, the lack of the right kind of exercise and a tendency in the body to store excess fat around the pectoral area.
Why is chest fat so difficult to lose?
A common problem facing pseudo-gynecomastia sufferers is that no matter how much they diet and exercise they just can’t seem to shift the last 5 -10 pounds of body fat, fat which just happens to be mostly located…yep you guessed it…in the man boob area. They achieve great results with the rest of the body, but those moobs are just so damn stubborn.
So what’s going on here?
Well, part of the reason for this is biological. The body’s first priority is not making us look good with our tops off, it’s survival! Those last reserves of fat are there to sustain you during times of emergency, so evolution has made them stubborn. Stubborn fat metabolises much slower than normal fat, and to burn it up requires much more effort.
As well as this, it may also be that hormonal changes in the man’s body – either those that occur naturally with age, or that have been provoked by the some other external facts – have increased his tendency to store fat and reduced his capacity to burn it quickly and efficiently.
We discussed some of the factors that may be responsible for this hormonal change when we looked at the possible causes of gynecomastia.
The other reason why it can be so difficult to shift pseudogynecomastia is because most people diet and exercise badly. And I’m not talking about lack of will power, I mean their entire strategy is wrong. When it comes to losing chest fat most people have a plan of attack that is doomed to failure even before they even start! I know this because for years and years I was making the exact same mistakes.
On the next page, we’ll discuss what those mistakes were and how you must exercise in the right way if you to have any chance of losing those moobs.