Love Handle Workouts

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Love handles are a slang term that actually means layers of fat that are found around your midsection. Love handles are very noticeable around the abdominal external oblique muscle. The term comes from when hugging someone with love handles you have a very soft place to rest your arms. In the Historical Dictionary of American Slang the term love handles is defined as “a bulge of fat at the side of the waist.” There are many love handle workouts that help reduce the size of those wonderful love handles. Everyone’s idea of the perfect body is considered to be a person that is very thin and definitely not with love handles.

Having love handles gives you a negative body image in the eyes of most Americans. The battle of the bulge is definitely a difficult challenge. There are lots of diet products on the market that are just to target the love handles but the truth of the matter is there is no such thing as spot reduction. You must add a low fat healthy diet to any love handle workout in order for it to be truly effective. In a healthy diet you must add carbohydrates, protein, and fats. The biggest factor is working out and burning more calories than your caloric intake.

Having love handles has been blamed on many things throughout the years including genetics, malfunctioning thyroid gland, fast foods, and decreased exercise. Many studies have shown that children tend to be overweight if their parents are. But when it comes down to being overweight it is a person’s lifestyle. There must be lifestyle changes in order to loose weight. It is very difficult to get started living a healthy lifestyle when you are so used to abusing your body by eating lots of fatty foods and decreased exercise.

Love Handles Workouts

1. Alternate Knee-In: Alternate knee-in workout begins by getting into the starting position of lying flat on your back on a gym mat. Allow your legs to be extended straight in front of you. Put your palms on the gym mat under your lower back. Use your elbows to support yourself and contract your abdominal muscles while lifting your legs up off of the gym mat about three or four inches. You will be required to move your legs simultaneously by bending your knee up to your midsection and rotating legs. You will need to do this as a set of thirty or as tolerated.
2. Alternate Twisting Crunch: Alternate twisting crunch exercise is performed by lying flat with your back on a gym mat. You will need to place your hands behind your head and avoid pulling on the neck. You will need to bend your knees and keep your feet flat on the ground. Now you are ready to begin the exercise. Raise your head up off the gym mat while contracting your abdominal muscles. Bring your right knee up and touch your left elbow then switch out and do the opposite side. Be sure to lie back on the gym mat after each step. Allow yourself to rest between each set if you need to. Repeat the sets about ten to fifteen times or as tolerated.
3. Double-Arm Reverse Row: Double-arm reverse row is done correctly by getting into starting position of standing erect with your feet apart enough to stabilize your balance during this love handle workout. You will be required to bend at the hips and until your torso is parallel to the floor. To do this exercise you will need a two three pound dumbbells. With the dumbbells gripped in each hand, extend your arms down toward the floor in front of your. Bring your arms up to your hips while keeping your arms bent. When extending your arms downward make sure that they touch your upper thigh and knee area and then take them back up as the same as before. You will need to repeat this love handle workout about ten to fifteen times or as tolerated.