How to get rid of love handles
Love handles is an area of fat underneath your belly over the abdominal oblique muscle. It is the part of your body that easily gets fat but it is hard to lose it. If you want to lose some fat from love handles you must first remove the fat around your belly. The best way to do that is to do some cardio exercises. After that you should try different stomach exercises starting with basic crunches.
Exercises are of course not enough without diet. Try some diet, for example fat burning soup or different fat burning foods diet to help exercises get rid of your fat. You can also try to include everyday running or at least 3 times a week. Running helps to burn fat. Remember about diet. No sugar, no sweats, no fat meals. Burn your own fat, not the one from your meal.
What about exercises? You can try following ones:
Stomach crunches:
Very basic exercise and also the simplest one. Find more information about stomahc crunches exercises here: Stomach crunches
Twist crunches:
- Lay flat on your back.
- Hands lay on the floor by your hips.
- Put your hands behind your head and lift up your head and neck a bit.
- Twist left by trying touching your right elbow with left knee.
- Change site by touching your left elbow with right knee.
- Repeat it as long as you feel strong pain in your stomach muscles. After short break do it again.
Standing twists with medicine ball:
- Hold medicine ball.
- Stand straight.
- Keep the ball just above your waist.
- Now, twist the ball around your body as much as possible to the left. Keep standing straight.
- Do it to the right.
- Repeat as many as you like, the goal is to make some fire in the muscles. After break you can do it again and again.
You can modify this exercises by straightening your arms more or less so you will have to use more or less power to be able to a twist (to move the ball). You can do it also without ball but then it will be easier which is ok for beginners.
Lifting up both legs: - Lay flat on your back.
- Hands lay on the floor by your hips.
- Lift up your both straight legs until 70degrees.
- Hold a while and put your leg back on the floor.
- Repeat it as many times as you want but remember that without pain there is no results.
Lifting up legs while laying on your belly:
- Lay flat o your back.
- Hands lay on the floor by your hips.
- Lift up your legs as high as possible and hold for some seconds.
- Put them back on the floor.
- Repeat 20-25 times.
Flutter your legs while laying on your belly:
- Lay flat o your back.
- Hands lay on the floor by your hips.
- Lift up your legs and start to flutter them.
- Do it for 20 seconds and do a break.
- Repeat as many times as you like.
