Goodbye Love Handles

fit4lyfeLisa
fit4lyfeLisa Posts: 529 Member
edited October 3 in Health and Weight Loss
Give his arms something sexy to wrap around! Work off those love handles!

OBLIQUE V-UP
Lie on your side with your body in a straight line. Fold your arms across your chest. Keeping your legs together, lift them off the floor as you raise your top elbow toward your hip. The range of motion is short, but you should feel an intense contraction in your obliques.
10 repetitions each side [Beginner]

SAXON SIDE BEND
Hold a pair of lightweight dumbbells over your head, in line with your shoulders, with your elbows slightly bent. Keep your back straight, and slowly bend directly to your right side as far as possible without twisting your upper body. Pause, return to an upright position, then bend to your left side as far as possible.
6 to 10 repetitions each side [Beginner to intermediate]

SPEED ROTATION
Stand while holding a dumbbell with both hands in front of your midsection. Twist 90 degrees to the right, then 180 degrees to your left. Keep your abs tight and move fast. Bring to center. Alternate the side you start with.
10 repetitions each side (Intermediate)

TWO-HANDED WOOD CHOP
Stand while holding a dumbbell, with both hands next to your right
ear. Flex your abs and rotate your torso to the left as you extend your
arms and lower the dumbbell to the outside of your left knee. Lift it
back, finish the set, and repeat on the other side.
10 repetitions each side [Intermediate]

MEDICINE BALL TORSO ROTATION
Hold a medicine ball or basketball in front of you. Sit with your knees
bent and your feet on the floor. Quickly twist to your left and set the
ball behind your back. Twist to the right and pick up the ball. Bring
the ball around to your left and set it down again. Repeat. Do the
same number of repetitions in which you first twist to the left side as
you do when you twist to the right side.
10 repetitions each side [Intermediate to advanced]

SIDE JACKKNIFE
Lie on your left hip, with your legs nearly straight and slightly
raised off the floor. Also raise your torso off the floor, with your left
forearm on the floor for balance. Hold your other hand behind your
right ear, with your elbow pointed toward your feet. Lift your legs
toward your torso while keeping your torso stationary. Pause to feel
the contraction on the right side of your waist. Then slowly lower
your legs and repeat. Finish the set on that side, then lie on your
right hip and do the same number of repetitions.
10 repetitions each side [Intermediate to advanced]

Visit the link below to see the exercises.
http://www.womenshealthmag.com/files/pdfs/love-handles-workout.pdf

Replies

  • Sublog
    Sublog Posts: 1,296 Member
    None of these exercises will reduce love handles.

    There is no such thing as spot reduction of fat. :)

    Lose bodyfat = lose lovehandles.
  • Monica_has_a_goal
    Monica_has_a_goal Posts: 694 Member
    Another great article, thank you

    And yes there IS spot reduction !! MY DAUGHTER Is proof of that!!

    She was already slim but wanted to flatten her waist and lower stomach and did it through exercise..

    I on the other hand have to lose everywhere so I do it all!
  • dad106
    dad106 Posts: 4,868 Member
    Another great article, thank you

    And yes there IS spot reduction !! MY DAUGHTER Is proof of that!!

    She was already slim but wanted to flatten her waist and lower stomach and did it through exercise..

    I on the other hand have to lose everywhere so I do it all!

    Actually there isn't.. the other poster is right. You can't just choose an area to lose fat from.. it doesn't work that way.

    I flattened my waist and lower stomach through exercise.. along with everywhere else on my body... thats what happens when you exercise. Your body knows where it needs to lose from.. plus a lot to lose fat it's 80% diet and 20% exercise.. so if her diet changed a lot, that would affect it more then the exercise.
  • Sublog
    Sublog Posts: 1,296 Member
    Another great article, thank you

    And yes there IS spot reduction !! MY DAUGHTER Is proof of that!!

    She was already slim but wanted to flatten her waist and lower stomach and did it through exercise..

    I on the other hand have to lose everywhere so I do it all!

    Your daughter lost belly fat because she burned more calories than she consumed. Of course, exercising helps with the first part of the equation (burning more calories), but spot reduction is not possible. The article makes it seem like doing these exercises by will aid in reducing love handles.

    These are great moves to strengthen your core, but they do zero to independently reduce stomach fat.

    Energy in = Energy out + Change in Body Stores

    :)
  • kikislove2
    kikislove2 Posts: 71 Member
    I don't think that this post was saying "do this exercise and nothing else". If you do these excercise along with others, along with your cardio, you will firm up those areas. That's why there are leg lifts and sqauts, arm curls, etc, because they work that specific area, but you do them in a routine to burn the total body.
  • siabevis
    siabevis Posts: 811
    Im so glad my love handles are gone! It took 9 months of healthy eating-no exercise. :)
  • Erica_theRedhead
    Erica_theRedhead Posts: 724 Member
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