If you aim at getting rid of your love handles, then you should go serious with exercises and build yourself (or just borrow from us) the perfect one of our fat burning workouts.
To really lose some waist inches you need to make your workouts more intensive than most people do. Have no worries, it can be done easily and may even save you some time at the gym. Here’s how:
1. Workout your entire body - There’s nothing that makes me angrier than seeing people spend 50% of their gym time working their waist and abs and neglecting the rest of their body. You can’t burn fat from your love handles or abs by doing targeted exercises. We burn fat from all over so go for the exercises that burn the most fat. These are usually not abdominal or waist exercises but those that work the other big muscle groups.
2. Do complex, multi-jointed, multi-groups exercises - If you want to burn more fat in less time do more complex workouts. For instance, instead of doing just squats, grab a couple of dumbbells and do a combination of squats and bicep curls together. Do supersets of chest presses and flies one after the other. There are many combinations you can use to make each set in your workout burn just a bit more fat. Since these will melt fat from your entire body, you will also lose inches off your waist in this way.
3. Keep your cardio short but to the point - A lot of people think they need to punch an attendance card at their cardio machine. It is not so. You’re no judged by time but by the effort you put in. Running for 20 minutes is better than walking for 30, in most cases. Keep your cardio routines short but to the point, so really push yourself. I also recommend doing your cardio after your strength exercises.
4. If you want to burn love handles fat or any flab for that matter, you’re going to need to maintain a healthy eating plan and stick to it. You don’t need to buy pills, supplements, patches, or any of that sort of thing unless you really want to. Just be sensible: eat fresh food, home cooked as much as possible, a lot of fruit and vegetables, lean protein, and only little refined sugar and flour.
Losing love handles is not rocket science: just workout hard and eat sensibly and you will get results.
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