Love handles: How to get rid of weighty issues
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moment on the lips and a lifetime on the hips. Watch what you eat and
exercise, or your weight problems will pile up at the wrong places.
It is not a pleasant sight to have a bulging tummy, especially if you're wearing a sensuous dress or a slick formal suit. Yes, it's true - unsightly love handles can ruin any outfit. So, to help you fight the battle of the bulge, here's Strength and Conditioning coach Arnav Sarkar and his advice on what it takes to stay away from weighty love handles.
What you should know about love handles: Your body has two kinds of fats: Fat below your skin that covers your abs and fat around your organs. In excess, both are equally bad for health, and excess fat around the abdomen is a sign of heart disease. This fat also increases the inflammatory molecules in your system, hence it is important to burn excess fat from your love handles.
How to get rid of love handles: While most try out popular ab/core exercise to reduce the waist size, which usually involves high reps of some low intensity exercise like the crunch, the best way to lose abdominal fat is to clean up your diet! Assuming that you have got that under control, you need intense training to challenge your metabolism, and tough exercises to challenge your core muscles.
Sexy abs: In my opinion you will see your abs a lot better with 100 squats vs 100 crunches. So that means, focus most of your workout around multijoint and compound exercises that work a lot of muscle groups rather than focus on exercises that tend to isolate a muscle group. Good choices would include squats, deadlifts, overhead presses, push ups, barbell/dumbbell rows, renegade rows, lunges, etc. For more focus on your abs you can do dumbbell windmills, reverse crunches, hanging leg raises, Turkish get up/situp, planks, etc.
Gender inequality? No! Both men and women's muscles respond similarly to abdominal training. Both need intense exercises that allow about 5-20 reps at max rather than go for easy ones that you can do for 500 reps.
Expert's view on love handles: In today's times a visible 6 pack is the craze, and even women are keen on a hard and firm stomach. The one concern that I have, is at times people equate a normal abdominal to a fat one. Just because the 6 pack is not visible, they immediately think that they have love handles and are fat. I have had skinny people weighing below 50 kgs complain that they have a huge belly, when all I could see was a skinny waistline.
What's a normal waistline: A little bit of fat around the waistline (unless it is bulging too much) is normal. It's only when that fat bulges, and is even visible from your lose clothes, that you should know that you have a problem. And the best way to tackle that in this case is to use a good mix of diet, strength training, cardio, along with proper restoration to see the best results.
It is not a pleasant sight to have a bulging tummy, especially if you're wearing a sensuous dress or a slick formal suit. Yes, it's true - unsightly love handles can ruin any outfit. So, to help you fight the battle of the bulge, here's Strength and Conditioning coach Arnav Sarkar and his advice on what it takes to stay away from weighty love handles.
What you should know about love handles: Your body has two kinds of fats: Fat below your skin that covers your abs and fat around your organs. In excess, both are equally bad for health, and excess fat around the abdomen is a sign of heart disease. This fat also increases the inflammatory molecules in your system, hence it is important to burn excess fat from your love handles.
How to get rid of love handles: While most try out popular ab/core exercise to reduce the waist size, which usually involves high reps of some low intensity exercise like the crunch, the best way to lose abdominal fat is to clean up your diet! Assuming that you have got that under control, you need intense training to challenge your metabolism, and tough exercises to challenge your core muscles.
Sexy abs: In my opinion you will see your abs a lot better with 100 squats vs 100 crunches. So that means, focus most of your workout around multijoint and compound exercises that work a lot of muscle groups rather than focus on exercises that tend to isolate a muscle group. Good choices would include squats, deadlifts, overhead presses, push ups, barbell/dumbbell rows, renegade rows, lunges, etc. For more focus on your abs you can do dumbbell windmills, reverse crunches, hanging leg raises, Turkish get up/situp, planks, etc.
Gender inequality? No! Both men and women's muscles respond similarly to abdominal training. Both need intense exercises that allow about 5-20 reps at max rather than go for easy ones that you can do for 500 reps.
Expert's view on love handles: In today's times a visible 6 pack is the craze, and even women are keen on a hard and firm stomach. The one concern that I have, is at times people equate a normal abdominal to a fat one. Just because the 6 pack is not visible, they immediately think that they have love handles and are fat. I have had skinny people weighing below 50 kgs complain that they have a huge belly, when all I could see was a skinny waistline.
What's a normal waistline: A little bit of fat around the waistline (unless it is bulging too much) is normal. It's only when that fat bulges, and is even visible from your lose clothes, that you should know that you have a problem. And the best way to tackle that in this case is to use a good mix of diet, strength training, cardio, along with proper restoration to see the best results.
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