The search for my Holy Grail

A quick google search landed some good generic information: weight training is a good start as building muscle will help burn fat (more on this later). Also, some sites claim that weight lifting really won't do much by itself (Later I will agree with them).  Their answer was to do cardio.  Nothing but cardio 3 times per week for best results.  As I researched more and more that every site I went to, like assholes, have their own opinion, and they all stink. 90% of sites visited wanted to sell you a product guaranteed to make me lose 50 lbs in one month (well, really If I paid the arm and a leg, that would surely bring me down to 110 lbs!).   The more I researched, the more bullshit I could smell.  The results I wanted were not going to come in a bottle, unless it was a bottle of HGH, which was out of the question because, frankly, I like my balls.  

I came across juicy tidbits here and there from fitness sites, that would actually do some good to mention here.  I've heard cheap-ass exercise videos talk about "spot training".  I thought, "Hmm this might be interesting to look at - I only have a couple trouble spots, maybe this will help".  I blasted Google with "spot training exercises" and along with shitty video clips on YouTube of funny looking 80s videos, I found nothing.  I took off the "exercises" and just searched "spot training".  This proved to be the most useful two words I've ever typed into Google.

I came across not a video or article on how to do spot training, but a blog post (or reply, it was a long time ago) about the myth of spot training.  The author was Tom Venuto.  He went on, at great lengths, on why it was a myth, and had a great scientific explanation for each case he presented.  Double checking his claims, I found that many of them are backed up by the scientific community.  "This guy at least has a pretty good idea of what he's talking about!", I thought.  So I checked him out on the web.  Surely enough, he has a product, but this one I didn't mind buying.  It was a book.  "Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle".  I still use this book as the core fundamentals of my fitness plan.