Comments on: How to lose a tummy and love handles? http://www.loselovehandles.org/lose-love-handles/how-to-lose-a-tummy-and-love-handles.php Learn how to lose love handles fastest way possible Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:03:25 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: nmp0906 http://www.loselovehandles.org/lose-love-handles/how-to-lose-a-tummy-and-love-handles.php/comment-page-1#comment-1176 nmp0906 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:34:20 +0000 http://www.loselovehandles.org/?p=235#comment-1176 I feel your pain. I have a bit of tummy flab, not much, and I am super lean otherwise. The best thing to do is ab exercises (don't forget the obliques, the ones on the sides) and general cardio. Ab exercises won't work alone, but in addition to an active cardio routine (at least 20 min 5x a week), you'll be able to see changes within a week or two, and full results in about a month. Remember, the number of repetitions isn't so much as important as the stress. If you can do more than 20 of a given ab exercise, you need to add weight. Weights will help develop a layer of muscle under the skin which will tighten and tone. As for specific exercises, I recommend what a trainer once referred to as 'suitcases' where you lie flat on your back, lifting your feet slightly off the ground, arms overhead slightly from touching the ground (this should tense up your abs) and bringing your knees and elbows together and crunching in one fluid motion (like closing yourself up in a suitcase, i guess). When you extend back out, don't touch the ground, keeping the tension on your abs. Once you can do twenty in a row w/o stopping or touching the ground, add weight. As for obliques, you can lie on your side with one arm out for stabilization and one behind your head. Knees bent slightly. Now pull your knees and elbows together and you should feel it in your side. Same number / weight rule applies here as well. Obliques tend to respond very well to resistance training so you should see results before your tummy. Do a search online for some other exercises to change it up. Remember that getting a great abdominal region is a two pronged attack. 1) you need to reduce the body fat sitting under the skin and above the muscle, obscuring it. 2) working out the muscle beneath the skin and fat to make it more pronounced and visible. #1 can be achieved through general cardio. Lots of situps and crunches aren't going to remove fat from that area alone, you need to drop your body percentage overall and unfortunately, the abs/thighs region is the last place to go. #2 is simple in doing a few exercises and adding weights as necessary. You should feel a tad sore the day after. It's a good thing in that it means you really worked them. Good luck! I feel your pain. I have a bit of tummy flab, not much, and I am super lean otherwise. The best thing to do is ab exercises (don’t forget the obliques, the ones on the sides) and general cardio. Ab exercises won’t work alone, but in addition to an active cardio routine (at least 20 min 5x a week), you’ll be able to see changes within a week or two, and full results in about a month.

Remember, the number of repetitions isn’t so much as important as the stress. If you can do more than 20 of a given ab exercise, you need to add weight. Weights will help develop a layer of muscle under the skin which will tighten and tone.

As for specific exercises, I recommend what a trainer once referred to as ’suitcases’ where you lie flat on your back, lifting your feet slightly off the ground, arms overhead slightly from touching the ground (this should tense up your abs) and bringing your knees and elbows together and crunching in one fluid motion (like closing yourself up in a suitcase, i guess). When you extend back out, don’t touch the ground, keeping the tension on your abs. Once you can do twenty in a row w/o stopping or touching the ground, add weight.

As for obliques, you can lie on your side with one arm out for stabilization and one behind your head. Knees bent slightly. Now pull your knees and elbows together and you should feel it in your side. Same number / weight rule applies here as well. Obliques tend to respond very well to resistance training so you should see results before your tummy.

Do a search online for some other exercises to change it up. Remember that getting a great abdominal region is a two pronged attack. 1) you need to reduce the body fat sitting under the skin and above the muscle, obscuring it. 2) working out the muscle beneath the skin and fat to make it more pronounced and visible. #1 can be achieved through general cardio. Lots of situps and crunches aren’t going to remove fat from that area alone, you need to drop your body percentage overall and unfortunately, the abs/thighs region is the last place to go. #2 is simple in doing a few exercises and adding weights as necessary. You should feel a tad sore the day after. It’s a good thing in that it means you really worked them.

Good luck!

]]> By: Tim212 http://www.loselovehandles.org/lose-love-handles/how-to-lose-a-tummy-and-love-handles.php/comment-page-1#comment-1175 Tim212 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 05:48:08 +0000 http://www.loselovehandles.org/?p=235#comment-1175 sorry to do this but I can't take this anymore. YOU CANNOT, AND I REPEAT, CANNOT, TARGET FAT. YOU HAVE NO CONTROL OF WHERE IT IS BURNED OFF OF. LOSE WEIGHT OVERALL AND YOU'LL SEE THE FAT GOING AWAY. BUT NO MATTER WHAT ANYONE OR ANY BS MAGAZINE SAYS, YOU CANNOT CHOOSE WERE THE FAT COMES OFF FROM. /RANT sorry but i've seen this question no less than a million times sorry to do this but I can’t take this anymore.

YOU CANNOT, AND I REPEAT, CANNOT, TARGET FAT. YOU HAVE NO CONTROL OF WHERE IT IS BURNED OFF OF. LOSE WEIGHT OVERALL AND YOU’LL SEE THE FAT GOING AWAY. BUT NO MATTER WHAT ANYONE OR ANY BS MAGAZINE SAYS, YOU CANNOT CHOOSE WERE THE FAT COMES OFF FROM.

/RANT

sorry but i’ve seen this question no less than a million times

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