Exercises to spot reduce my love handles

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  • LilMissSunshine_
    LilMissSunshine_ Posts: 520
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    Angry pirate
  • Plates559
    Plates559 Posts: 869 Member
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    What about a weighted hula hoop?

    Just not too heavy!
  • ArroganceInStep
    ArroganceInStep Posts: 6,239 Member
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    YOU CAN NOT SPOT REDUCE.

    This^. Just eat healthy, exercise, and have patience.

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  • Faye_Anderson
    Faye_Anderson Posts: 1,495 Member
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    What about a weighted hula hoop?

    That will just emphasise love handles surely?? Avoid drawing attention to the area :happy:
  • _binary_jester_
    _binary_jester_ Posts: 2,132 Member
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    What about a weighted hula hoop?

    Just not too heavy!
    The ones with the beads are about as much as I can handle right now
  • mirandamayhem
    mirandamayhem Posts: 772
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    swim . . . with sharks, alligators, crocodiles, or piranhas . . . however that may yeild reductions in other spots instead.

    "Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be!"
  • mirandamayhem
    mirandamayhem Posts: 772
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    What about a weighted hula hoop?

    Just not too heavy!
    The ones with the beads are about as much as I can handle right now

    beads? You sure you're not looking in the wrong type of um, "exercise" shop?
  • BAMFMeredith
    BAMFMeredith Posts: 2,829 Member
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    Tae Bo, obviously.
  • ElleBee615
    ElleBee615 Posts: 177
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    Some of these responses are fuggin hilarious!!!
  • secretlobster
    secretlobster Posts: 3,566 Member
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    If you don't eat back your exercise calories, you'll go into starvation mode where your body takes fat from everywhere else on your body and piles it on your love handles
  • _binary_jester_
    _binary_jester_ Posts: 2,132 Member
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    For years, scientists told athletes that spot reducing doesn't work. For example, you can't lose arm fat by doing curls and triceps extensions. These conclusions were based on volumetric studies that estimated changes in lean mass and fat in the arms and legs following weeks of specific exercises in those areas. Danish researchers, led by Dr. Bente Stallknecht from the Panum Institute in Copenhagen, showed that spot reducing is effective. Researchers used radioactive tracers (133Xe) to measure changes in fat mass during high-rep knee extensions, which is more sensitive than measuring density changes in the arms and legs. Researchers also studied blood flow and fat breakdown in fat tissue adjacent to working muscles and in fat tissue around inactive muscles in the other leg. After 30 minutes of doing knee extensions with one leg, subjects switched legs and did knee extensions for 120 minutes using more weight. Blood flow and fat breakdown were greatest around the working muscles. The study researchers concluded that specific exercises could cause "spot reducing" because blood flow and fat use was higher in adipose (fat) tissue adjacent to working muscles. Spot reducing was most effective at higher intensities because it generated more heat in the muscles and triggered a higher release of catecholamines (fight-or-flight hormones, such as adrenaline). This was an exciting study for bodybuilders that overturned longstanding beliefs about spot reducing. The take-home message is that spot reducing works. High-rep, high-weight exercises reduce local fat stored best. (American Journal Physiology Endocrinology Metabolism, 292: 394-399, 2007)
  • AlsDonkBoxSquat
    AlsDonkBoxSquat Posts: 6,128 Member
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    I think what all the smart *kitten* people above me are trying to say is...

    YOU CAN NOT SPOT REDUCE.

    Lift heavy and eat right.

    Except you are wrong, ever heard of liposuction?

    And they have those warm lifts now too don't they? lipo - - - something other than suction? That would be awesome.
  • Cliffslosinit
    Cliffslosinit Posts: 5,044 Member
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    Ambidextrous *kitten*. It's the only thing I found that works.
    My left hand is sadly weak and uncoordinated.

    Oh that is like having grandma over isn't it?
  • AlsDonkBoxSquat
    AlsDonkBoxSquat Posts: 6,128 Member
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    swim . . . with sharks, alligators, crocodiles, or piranhas . . . however that may yeild reductions in other spots instead.

    "Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be!"

    got to bring the beatles into it do you?
  • TylerJ76
    TylerJ76 Posts: 4,375 Member
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    Body by Vi
  • dinosnopro
    dinosnopro Posts: 2,179 Member
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    *kitten*? It's been working for me.
  • mirandamayhem
    mirandamayhem Posts: 772
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    swim . . . with sharks, alligators, crocodiles, or piranhas . . . however that may yeild reductions in other spots instead.

    "Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be!"

    got to bring the beatles into it do you?

    Beatles don't kill people, sharks do
  • SPNLuver83
    SPNLuver83 Posts: 2,050 Member
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    You can't spot reduce. You just have to reduce your overall body fat.
  • maab_connor
    maab_connor Posts: 3,927 Member
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    What about a weighted hula hoop?

    Just not too heavy!
    The ones with the beads are about as much as I can handle right now

    beads? You sure you're not looking in the wrong type of um, "exercise" shop?

    no, mine sells them too. right next to the ball gags for tennis.
  • felice03
    felice03 Posts: 2,732 Member
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    army crawl through the bushes next time you are peeking in my window....

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