Anna P asked:
I have love handles and want to get rid of them
What workouts work for getting rid of them?
I have love handles and want to get rid of them
What workouts work for getting rid of them?
Learn how to lose love handles fastest way possible
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Everyone has a problem spot. It can be around the stomach, thighs, arms or chest. No matter where your trouble spot is, the solution is exactly the same. You need to eat less and exercise more. The reason why there’s only one solution for all of these problems is because it’s impossible to tell your body where to burn the excess fat from.
When you eat too many calories, your body stores the excess energy as fat in different areas around the body. To lose this fat, you need to create a calorie deficit (eat less than you burn) to force your body to start burning that fat for energy. There is absolutely no way to control where your body goes to find this extra fat.
The larger your calorie deficit (a bigger calorie deficit means a bigger difference between what you eat and what you burn) the faster your body will burn excess fat and the quicker your body fat percentage will start to decrease. You can increase your calorie deficit by cutting your daily intake and exercising more. Sit ups will do nothing to target the fat around your abs just like squats will do nothing to target the fat around your thighs. You can read more about fixing your trouble spots at the Guide to Reducing Body Fat -
You cannot just do sit-ups to help get rid of love handles or make your stomach flat, and you cannot get thinner thighs by just doing workouts for your thighs. If you were to look at a muscle anatomy picture, you will find that what we call love handles are simply our gluteus medius which goes up and connects to the external obliques and goes down to and forms the gluteus maximus which is connected to your lats. Doing the following will help with the entire area to tighten and tone up your muscles and help burn the fat around them. Hope all of this helps do lunges, step-up kickbacks, walking downhill, running, leg raises without weight or very light weight, yoga, push ups, lat pull downs, pull ups rowing, and deadlifts. All of this combined with a proper diet full of lean protein and carbs, and you should be in business. If you need anymore help email me. Do 3-4 sets and 15-20 reps of light –no weights at all.
Stomach
Bicycle
Reverse sit-up
Seated knee lift
Pelvic Tilt
Scissors open crunch
Low Back
Stiff legged dead lift
Rear leg raise
Swan
Superman
Stomach and Low Back
Lower body toner/ stability ball
Side plank
Plank
Knee in, leg push back
Legs
Pile squat
Step up and downs
Standing still lunges
Inner leg raises
Outer leg raises
These are good for the lower ab area to help bring in the pouch that most people have.
Lower ab exercises
Hanging leg raises
Scissor crunches
Reverse crunches
Laying down leg raises
Bicycle
Pike and extend
Pilates 100
Seated knee lift
Pelvic Tilt
Bridging
Seal / a Pilates move
Any Pilates because it works on core stability
Stability ball pelvic roll
My workout routine
I do a push pull workout on most days. 3 days a week i do strength training and the other 3 I do 65 minutes cardio moderate speed (3.5- 3.7) on an incline of 10-13. I take Sundays off to rest and relax. Push pull for example is doing triceps extension with or without a break then doing biceps curls and adding reverse or regular crunches in there to make sure I get abs in and it cuts down on time. I do abs a lot to keep my core strong. I try to get all of the muscles in that area to work together on the same day. Do the amount of weight for what you want to accomplish. Say for toning, lightweight and high reps (15-20) and 3-4 sets. To build muscle, 2-3 sets and 10-12 reps. All beginners need to start with 1-2 sets and 8-10 reps with lightweights. Remember to stretch after your workout to keep from cramping up.10-15 minutes of stretching is optimal. This workout can be done all at once or like you would do 2 a days.
Monday- biceps triceps and shoulders/ cardio for 65 minutes
Tuesday – cardio 1hr and 15 min/abs
Wednesday – chest back and abs/ cardio for 65 minutes
Thursday cardio 1 hour and 15 minutes
Friday- legs/ cardio for 65 minutes
Saturday- cardio hour and 15 minutes/ abs
Sunday- off
This routine has helped me lose 70 lbs of fat and 16 inches off my entire body and gain 45 lbs of muscle after having a baby. I was 180 in March of this year and now I am 140 lean and solid at 5′1″(do not look it though). Still losing fat and gaining muscle.