Many people feel that when they look down at their belly fat poking out from their sides, they can just do some different exercises to get rid of love handles and they’ll be all set. Sadly, it doesn’t work like that. I wish it was, that would be nice…But your body is a lot smarter than that.
It doesn’t care about you and your six pack or flat stomach. All it cares about is survival and staying at homeostasis. All homeostasis is, are your body and all of its systems working optimally with minimal effort. It doesn’t want to expand calories. It wants to hoard them and store them as body fat in case of famine.
This ensures survival and continuation of the species. Even though we are now domesticated and have settled down for 10,000 plus years, we still have the same types of bodies that our ancient ancestors had 100,000 years ago. We haven’t really changed all that much. All they cared about was survival and it’s the same today.
And that’s one of the big reasons why there are no such things as love handle exercises. They just don’t exist. Well technically they do exist but they don’t work. I don’t know why people keep putting up videos on YouTube about “exercises for love handles” touting their amazing toning abilities. It just truly makes me sick to my stomach.
Anyways, what I wanted to show you was that it is possible to lose your love handles. You just need to have a smart and well planned out exercise program. It doesn’t need to be fancy, but it does need to be well planned out, and balanced with built in progression models. Now what are progression models?
These are just elements built into your program that force you to keep progressing in some way week by week. This forces your body to keep burning more and more calories over time, avoids stagnation, adaptation, which in turn makes the necessary and desirable changes in your physique…specifically around that stubborn spare tire of a waist line. It sucks, I know, I was there too one time. It’s not fun and definitely frustrating.
So the basics of your training program will be interval training mixed with resistance training exercises and GPP. All GPP stands for is general physical preparedness. It’s just another way of talking about building up your work capacity through the use of specific cardio conditioning drills. This leads to a larger increase in EPOC levels, metabolism, work capacity, and calorie burning over the long haul. EPOC is short for excess post oxygen consumption.
When you’re training with intervals, you incur what’s called an oxygen debt inside of your body since you are throwing it out of balance and working anaerobically. Therefore, EPOC increases and your metabolism is positively correlated with EPOC. Therefore your metabolism increases and calorie burning stays above baseline limits for hours on end after you have finished your workout. Your body, essentially is working to bring all of its system back down to baseline level, it’s in overdrive, and it needs to make up that oxygen debt that you forced upon it.
Therefore, it uses up excess calories, specifically from body fat to get the job done. Pretty cool don’t you think. And you can find a lot of these workouts in the Love Handle Cure Training System.
Some examples of cardio conditioning drills that I like a lot are sled drags, sprints, hill sprints, sledgehammer training, kettle bell swings, metabolic resistance training, and strongman training. Any one of these specific workouts will jack up your EPOC levels and therefore enable you to burn a tremendous amount of calories during your workouts and after for long periods of time.
These are the types of workouts that if your diet was on track would give you the fastest changes in your body composition in the shortest amounts of time. They are that powerful and I believe in them 100% because I’ve seen the results they deliver. Here is just a small teaser of one these types of workouts you can find inside the system.
A1) Squat Thrusts
A2) Overhead Dumbbell Presses
Perform for 15 minutes alternating back and forth between exercises. Do as many reps as possible while making sure to count each rep. Once 15 minutes are finished, stop and record the number of reps you got for each exercise. Then move on to set B.
B1) Bent Over Dumbbell Rows
B2) Dumbbell Pushups
Perform for 15 minutes alternating back and forth between exercises. Do as many reps as possible while making sure to count each rep. Once 15 minutes are finished, stop and record the number of reps you got for each exercise. Then move on to set C.
C1) Renegade Rows
C2) Jumping Jacks
Perform for 15 minutes alternating back and forth between exercises. Do as many reps as possible while making sure to count each rep. Once 15 minutes are finished, stop and record the number of reps you got for each exercise.
Enjoy and hope you enjoyed this article about the truth on exercises for love handles.
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