If you ask a section of the general public then excess fat around the neck comes near the top of the list of undesirable places to have fat. How can it be permanently shifted? Are there any workouts that you can do to specifically target this fat?

How Fat Gets Put On

If you have excess fat around neck then I will hazard a guess that you also have excess fat in other places.

The body puts on weight when you take in more calories than you need. Animals do this when they prepare for hibernation or for the winter.

Everyone has a unique body. This includes the order in which fat accumulates. Some people get it on the stomach first while others get it there last. Most people have some excess fat around the neck but clearly some will fare better than others.

Only you know the order in which fat accumulated on your own body and this is the key to removing it.

Reverse Motion

To lose fat from anywhere on the body you need to have a calorific deficit i.e. you need to eat less calories than you burn up. For example, a daily deficit of 500 calories will help you to lose about a pound a week.

Because of this calorific deficit, your body turns to the fat that it previously stored and starts to consume it. Generally speaking, fat comes off in the reverse order that it went on. Even if your neck fat was the last to get put on and will be the first to go, you usually have to lose nearly all of your fat before you start to get the definition back.

What About Exercise?

Exercise only helps you when it comes to the calorie equation. Exercise increases the amount of calories that you burn up. Assuming no change to your diet then exercise will increase the rate of your fat loss. If you change your diet too then you will lose weight even more quickly.

What exercise will not achieve is targeted weight loss. You cannot laser target your neck region. For example, you may have heard of "face exercises"? These simply do not work. When your muscles work, they do not turn to neighboring fat cells for energy - the body simply does not work like that.