Lose fat and love handles
The “love handles” or “spare tire” are created by the deposition of extra fat around the midsection of the body.
Goals and measurements to reduce love handles :
To target the specific area and to create specific goals we should know the measurement of the midsection. So for measurement wrap a tape measure around the abdomen at the widest area of love handle and record the measurement. Also measure the body’s fat percentage because our goal is also to reduce fat
Losing fat and toning muscle:
- Burn more calories: you should burn more calories than you burn that is the only secret of losing weight. A good way to do it is to engage in low intensity aerobics such as walking on a treadmill, using a stationary bike. You should be certain that the intensity is low enough so that you can do it everyday. Higher intensity than that requires time off between workouts and less activity and fat burning.
- Tighten abdominal muscles: The most intense exercise to target abdominal muscle is to perform weighted crunches. Adding weight to crunches increase the overload to the target muscle.
Lie on back with handle of a low pulley behind the head. Grasp the handle and pull the slack out of the pulley. Using abdominal muscles raise the shoulders and upper torso off the floor while lifting the weight stack of the low pulley. Perform this exercise and try to increase the weight by ten percent each time
Other way is to do dumbbell side bends. Take one dumbbell and hold it on your side while standing. Allow the weight of the dumbbell to descend towards floor by bending the torso sideways. Use the power of abdominal muscles to straighten your torso against the force of the opposing weight
- Widen your upper body: A wider midsection can be overlooked by having a wider upper body. While you are reducing your midsection, it helps to add a little more size to your upper body and create most of the wanted V-shaped that is so desireable.
- Measure: measure the girth of your midsection and body fat percentage every week.
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