Despite their name, there isn’t much to love about love handles.
So many of us try to target this specific area with endless side crunches and other abdominal moves that target the obliques, muscles that run down the sides of the torso. I was one of them.
In order to get rid of love handles for good, you’re going to need to make dietary, exercise, and lifestyle changes.
5 ways
1. Cut the sugar
Healthy eating is key when you’re trying to lose fat in any area of the body. Ditching added sugar is one of the best ways to clean up your diet.
Added sugar is found in foods and beverages like cookies, candies, sports drinks, and sodas. The term does not apply to the natural sugar found in healthy foods like whole fruit.
2. Focus on Healthy Fats
Filling up on healthy fats like avocados, olive oil, nuts, seeds and fatty fish can help slim your waistline.
Not only do healthy fats taste delicious, they help you feel full, causing you to consume fewer calories throughout the day.
3. Lift Weights
Engaging in any kind of physical activity can help you lose your love handles, but adding weight training to your routine may be especially beneficial.
The terms weight training, strength training and resistance training are generally interchangeable. They all mean contracting your muscles against some form of resistance to build your strength.
While aerobic training typically burns more calories during a workout, resistance training helps the body build lean muscle and burn more calories at rest.
Combining resistance training with aerobic exercise has been shown to be very effective for burning off belly fat.
4. Add in whole-body moves
Focusing on working out the part of your body that bothers you the most may be tempting, but exercising the whole body may be a more effective way to slim down love handles.
Incorporate whole-body moves into your workout and add in aerobic exercises that work a large number of muscles at once.
5. Try a HIIT workout
High-intensity interval training (HIIT) might be one of the most effective workouts for losing body fat.
HIIT workouts involve short bursts of intense aerobic exercise, each followed by a recovery period. These workouts are quick and effective, and numerous studies have shown that they can help you lose body fat.
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