How To Lose Weight On The Love Handles

Love handles: This extra stomach/back fat can crop up seemingly out of nowhere, especially if you’ve just had kids or are dealing with menopause.

The first thing to know is that no matter what your body type is, spot-reducing fat doesn’t work. You can’t spot-reduce body fat because you store fat cells all over your body—where your fat cells happen to be concentrated is often a genetic predisposition.

If you want to lose your love handles, you need to lose weight all over by making dietary and lifestyle changes, and then tone up your stomach with targeted exercises. If you take our holistic approach, you’ll lose pounds all over, and strengthen and tighten your tummy.

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Since love handles are made up of basic body fat, don’t pay attention to fad diets, extreme cleanses, or any contraption that promises “6-pack abs” by Sunday.

When you’re overly tired, you’re more likely to reach for sugary snacks and extra calories to keep you going. Aim for 7-8 hours of sleep per night.

If you’re always stressed out, there’s a chance stress is contributing to your belly fat. When chronically high levels of cortisol exist in your body, it can increase the amount of visceral fat your body stores—i.e, belly fat.

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We can’t get rid of stress altogether, but using meditation, yoga, and other relaxation techniques can help you manage your body’s response to it.

Your diet matters just as much as what workouts you do when it comes to getting rid of love handles. You can’t out-train a bad diet. Be sure you’re eating nutritious, well-balanced meals that are full of vegetables, protein, and complex carbs like whole grains. Eat more plants, eat less junk- period!

The CDC recommends you get 150 minutes of heart-pumping cardio per week. If you want to lose or maintain weight, you’ll need to do cardio in addition to the toning exercises listed below.

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And no matter what you hear out there, weight loss is still mostly science. You need to expend more calories than you take in, and doing cardio exercise really helps you up your daily calorie expenditure everyday! (Not to mention heart health is also very important for women.)

The love handles might seem to sit off to the side but training your entire core will best results for a tight tummy. While your body sheds lose the fat through the aforementioned clean eating and cardio, the following moves will tighten and strengthen the area around the middle for those real results we’re talking about!

These five toning exercises specifically target love handles, and will have you feeling the burn! Combine this workout with the advice above and you’ll watch that belly fat “waist” away.

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How To Lose Love Handles

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The exercises below also target the core muscles; specifically the obliques, lower back, and abdominals. Firming these particular muscles can help tighten up muscles in this specific area. These exercises combined with a proper diet, and possibly a reduction in caloric intake, can make a significant difference in your body composition.

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Getting rid of fat from the love handle area can be tricky. The muscles in the lower back attach to the spine and pelvis in different directions. Some of the muscles run up and down. Some are diagonal.

I’ve found that the best exercises for love handles target and tighten the lower back muscles from all different angles and directions. Hint: that’s what these exercises do and why they’re the best!

When these exercises are done together in one workout, they cinch all of the muscles in tight like a waist trainer, reducing the appearance of love handles and the waist. WOO!

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That’s how we’re going to target, tone, and suck in all the muscles that wrap around the love handle area like a corset. Please see the video above for demos on how to do each move.

Lay on your side using your elbow for support. Make sure your elbow and shoulder are in a straight line. Spread your palm out to allow for better support. Put your feet on top of each other and lift up. Holding this position for two seconds, bring your body down and back up again. Repeat.

From an elbow plank, slowly rotate the spine to lower your left hip to just above the floor (about one to two inches from the ground). Come back to elbow plank.

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Lay down with your back on the ground and your knees bent and pointed towards the ceiling. With your arms on your side raise your shoulders slightly off the ground. Using your abs rotate your right hand down to your right foot and then back up. Then do the same thing with your left hand.

Balance on your booty-forming a v with your upper body-with your hands behind your head. Bring your legs up to a 45-degree angle. Bring your right knee towards your chest and crunch up to meet it with your left elbow and back down. Repeat with the other side.

Kneel on the floor and lean all the way over to your right side, placing your right palm on the floor. Keeping your weight balanced, slowly extend your left leg and point your toes. Place your left hand behind your head, pointing your elbow toward the ceiling.

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Next, slowly lift your leg to hip height as you extend your arm above your leg, with your palm facing forward. Look out over your hand while bringing the left side of your rib cage toward your hip.

Extend your arms out beside you at shoulder level, with your palms pressed firmly to the floor. Your upper body should form a “T” shape. Raise your feet off the floor by bending your hips and knees to 90 degree angles. This is the start position.

As you exhale, rotate both your thighs to one side until the outer thigh touches the ground or until you feel a stretch in your abs and lower back.

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This blog is for those who are thinking of becoming pregnant, are already pregnant, or have given birth and are looking forward to getting their best bodies ever.I’m pumped about today’s workout because so many people ask me for exercises that get rid of _____ (fill in the blank with every problem area.) Today, we’re targeting the love handles…  The stubborn ‘muffin top’ area on the lower back that bulges up over waistbands.

You CAN lose your love handles when you use targeted exercises in addition to a nutrition and complete training program.  But please note, that you can’t spot reduce love handles with exercises alone.  If you’re not eating and exercising the rest of your body your results will be negligible.

But there’s good news!  All of the love handle exercises I’m sharing today work together to cinch the muscles of the lower back in like a corset.  This will help you get results faster when you are using one of my meal plans.

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Notice how all of the exercises target the lower back and waist in different ways.  That’s the secret sauce that makes this workout so effective.

I explain more in today’s episode of CCtv to learn how and get a complete love handle melting workout that really works.  I think you’re going to love it.

Lie on the floor with your knees bent. Your arms should be down by your side with your palms on the floor. Lift your shoulders off the floor. This will be your starting position. Reach

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