Lose Your Love Handles With These Great Exercises
We cannot decided where our body decides to store fat, this is down to genetics. Fat typically gathers around the mid section to add extra protection to our vital organs. The best way we can reduce weight in the mid section is by exercising and watching what we eat. The fat in the mid section can be known as Love handles. This term is used to describe fat on the stomach, obliques (side of stomach), and on the lower back just above the trouser line. Simple exercise will help get rid of this bulge.
When exercising to get rid of love handles, the muscles that need concentrating on the most are, the obliques and abdominal muscles. Here are some simple exercises that you can do at home that will work these muscles.
Seated russian twist – Sit on the floor with your feet together and knees bent. Place your hands in front of your stomach and keep them together. Lean back until you feel like your abdominal muscles are having to work to keep you in that position then slowly rotate from side to side. Focus on rotating the whole of your upper body.
Side Plank – Lie completely down on your side. Place one foot on top of the other and keeping your body as straight as possible, use your forearm to get your whole body off the ground. Feel the pull on your abs from trying to keep your body in the straight position. Hold for 30-45 seconds then repeat the other side.
Slow bicycles – This exercises is like riding a bike but you are lying on your back. But your are doing this much slower. Place your hands behind your head like you would do when you are doing a sit-up. When your leg comes up to your stomach, reach over with your opposite elbow and feel the pull across your stomach. Repeat the opposite way.
These are great starting exercises and you should get the hang of these in no time at all. Then you can progress to doing exercises using swiss balls and resistance bands. Most gyms do core classes which will incorporate a lot of work on the stomach. You should also consider starting to look into doing free weights, as unlike resistance weights you need to use more of your core muscles to stabilize the weight.
If you continue with this exercise plan you will see less love handles and more muscles.
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