Get The Look Of A Greek God With These Love Handle Workouts

If you’re trying to get rid of your love handles, then there are many different types of love handle workouts that you can do in order to cure this problem area. However, it’s probably not what you are thinking. A lot of people believe that they can just do a couple of exercises for love handles and that’ll do the trick.

The truth is you can’t spot reduce an area on your body through simple exercises like side bends, crunches, sit ups, and broomstick twists. It just doesn’t happen like that. I wish it did because then it would make things that much easier and we’d all be walking around with the bodies of Greek Gods. However, there are different love handle workout principles you can follow in order to reduce the size of that spare tire around your middle starting today.

The first thing that I see is a big problem for a lot of people in the gyms is that they keep constantly doing the same thing over and over again only to believe this will lead to a different result. I believe it was Mr. Einstein who coined this term “the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again only to believe you will get a different result.” And he’s right that is insanity.

You can’t keep doing the same type of cardiovascular program or resistance training workout every week, month by month and expect to see any change. It’s just not going to happen like that. Your body doesn’t care that you want to lose your love handles. All it cares about is survival.

And it does that through adaptation. It wants to make things as efficient as possible. So when you don’t change your program or try to improve in any way possible, you will begin to start burning less and less calories each time you workout. Not cool if you ask me. And this can happen relatively quickly depending on the type of exercise program you’re following.

The most popular form of cardio that I see people doing which is one of biggest waste of times is traditional slow, boring cardio. That type when you just hop on the treadmill and go running, walking, or go on the elliptical to do some work. Now granted, you will get some cardiovascular benefit from it on a health level, but other than that it’s almost worthless.

Plus there’s no carry over or transfer effect to things such as sprinting etc..It’s just too easy for you to do. That’s why a lot of overweight people can run marathons. Your body becomes really efficient at this type of training, therefore it adapts quickly and you burn less and less calories each time out.

And the metabolism boosting effects from this type of cardio is short sighted. Your metabolism immediately returns back down to baseline levels right after you cease your workout. But there is a more optimal love handle workout that allows you to cut down your workout time in half, but enables you to burn 2-3x more calories over traditional cardio. And that’s with interval training.

Interval training is awesome because you don’t need to exercise for long periods of time in order to induce change. It’s very hard for your body to adapt to and it keeps your metabolism raised above baseline levels for a long period of time. This of course depends on intensity and duration, but you automatically get that with interval training.

Especially, with metabolic resistance training. This is when you combine resistance training workouts in a back to back fashion to create a huge metabolic demand on your body and all of its systems. Here is an example workout for love handles that you can start doing right now. This was taken from one of the workouts in my Love Handle Cure fat loss system:

Workout 1: Monday

A1) Dumbbell Squats

A2) 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 B.

B1) Dumbbell Rows

B2) Mountain Climbers

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) Bicycles

C2) Dumbbell Swings

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.

So as you can see, we combine weight training exercises with cardio conditioning drills. In the end, studies show that this leads to the most calories burned in the shortest time frame possible. Plus it elevates your metabolism above baseline levels for hours on end which is what you want and need.

All in all if you want more effective love handle workouts like the one above, start implementing more cardio conditioning drills and interval training specific exercises into your program.

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