Love handle is te polite way to say the fay around your waistline. Poor eating habits inappropriate times and unhealthy lifestyle includes junk food, consumption of alcohol may reasons for fat around waist or love handles. Hormonal changes in the woman’s body when pregnancy, childbirth, and puberty may also cause for love handle. No worries! Here are the simple exercises for love handles and burn fat around your waistline.
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Exercises for Love Handles
1. Side Stretching
Side stretching specifically focuses on the love handles. It also helps for relief from back and shoulders pain. Start practicing the side stretching exercise to lose a love handle.
How to Do
- Stand straight with shoulder width gap
- Slowly raise your hand and touch the left shoulder
- Hold your right elbow with your right hand
- Strat side stretching your body with putting pressure on the elbow
- Hold for few seconds and return back to starting pose
- Repeat this stretching with another side
- Stretching, make your body tone and get a slim look
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2. Donkey Kicks – Sideways
Donkey kicks(1) are excellent work to tone your lower body. This focus pelvic floor, lower back, abdominal muscles, and shoulders. Include this exercise in your workplace to lose your love handle.
How to Do
- Get down on all fours. your elbows and knees touching the floor and face towards the wall
- Slowing raise your right knee and start kick to the side
- Kick it in such a way that your left thigh is parallel to the floor
- Return the leg for to stating the position
- Repeat this for 10 kicks and change the leg
- Do 10 kick with each leg for 3 sets
- You can increase the stretches gradually
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3. Side Kicks
Side Kicks is one of the simple exercises for a love handle. It is also an excellent cardio exercise to warm up for other exercises and best love handle workout.
How to Do
- Stand straight with feet width apart and face toes towards font of the wall
- Hod the upper body straight and lift your right leg as high as to the side
- Return to the starting position
- Repeat this with the other leg
- Do this exercise for 25 times on each side and lose your love handles
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4. Triangle Pose
Triangle exercise or pose that turn and twist the abdomen muscles(2) and helps to reduce love handles. It also helps to lose belly fat and overall body stretching.
How to Do
- Stand with shoulder-width apart
- Stretch your hand and parallel to the shoulder
- Inhale slowly and start bending to sie and touch the right toe with the right hand, with left-hand face to the ceiling
- Hold for a few seconds
- Slow return to starting position and switch another side
- Do this exercise 10 time on each side for 3 sets
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5. Hanging Leg Raises
It is a simple exercise to eat to lose fat and reduce love handles. This the excellent love handle workout has an astounding effect within 2 – 3 weeks.
How to Do
- You need a rod or bar
- Arrange a bar or rod where you can hand and perform this workout or exercise
- Jump and hold the bar or rod flexing your hips
- Raise your legs until they are perpendicular to your trunk or torso
- Slowing lower the legs and come to an initial hanging position
- Repeat this 10 – 12 -time for 3 sets
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Other Exercises for Love Handles
- Woodchoppers
- Kettlebell Swing
- Bicycle Crunch
- One Hand Toe Touch
- Knee Drop
- Side Squats
- Side Plank – Hip Lifts
- Russian Twists
- Crab Kick
- Plank Crunch – Sideways
- Knee Drop
Tips To Reduce Love Handles
Along the several exercises for love handles you should follow tips includes lifestyle changes and diet to reduce love handles.
- Cut down on unnecessary calories and added sugar
- Reduce stress
- Drink lots of water
- Add Healthy carbs, fibre, protein, and fats to your daily diet
- Sleep well
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