The Top Five Love Handle Exercises
There is no need for crunches in your goal for a six pack! Surprised? Even though we have been told all our lives that crunches are the fastest way to that six pack, I’m going to give you the top five love handle exercises to get the six pack without wasting time on sit-ups.
There are no easy solutions for getting a six pack, so don’t listen to the hype about supplements or ab machines that supposedly get you there quick. It takes forming a solid exercise routine to uncover your six pack, not gimmicky fads. You need a high-intensity workout with resistance to burn fat and raise your metabolism.
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Then there are the people who think that doing hours of cardio at a steady pace while watching their favorite TV program is the best type of exercise. This variety of workout seems to be pretty boring, on top of the fact that it you don’t really burn much fat. Let’s face it, if you are watching TV, then you probably are not concentrating on working at an intense pace. So what are the best love handle exercises?
Well, the best metabolic and hormonal response is achieved through variable intensity training and strength training, not slow steady-pace cardio or by lying on your back doing hundreds of crunches. Any exercise that works your core along with your large muscles will help you to accomplish your goals more efficiently. You will build muscle, burn fat, and get your cardio workout, all at the same time.
Here are the five best love handle exercises:
1. Stability Ball rollouts – You’ll get a more powerful stretch in the Rollout exercise, and a more powerful contraction, all without doing excessive and dangerous spinal flexion with crunches.
2. Planks with arms on a Stability Ball – According to the Men’s Health magazine, research shows that a plank with arms on the ball is 30% more effective in working your abs than doing crunches on the ball.
3. X-Body mountain climbers – This unique total-body ab exercise still works your obliques, but without repetitive crunching. In addition, it helps build invaluable abdominal endurance and stability to keep your low back healthy.
4. Stability ball jackknives – You will still be able to work the lower area of your abdominal muscles as well as your obliques with this Stability Ball exercise, but you also get the benefit of building back-protecting abdominal endurance.
5. Hanging knee-ups or advanced pull-ups plus knee-ups – Pull your knees clear up to your chest.
If you focus around 90% of your workout time on high intensity combinations of full-body exercises, you will melt away that tummy fat. Along with these love handle exercises, throw in some short duration cardio workouts such as wind sprints, hill sprints, stair sprints, jump rope, or even just walking up a hill or stairs as fast as you can, and you will begin to shed pounds in no time at all.
For more details on these top five love handle exercises, check out Mike Geary’s book The Truth About Six Pack Abs.
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