Love Handles Workout - Getting Measurable Results Sooner
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Along with finding and performing the right love handles exercises you will also need to improve your dietary intake of calories if you intend on getting noticable results in a reasonable time frame. Although the exercises you use will help to tone and firm up the muscles in the mid section of the body it is the amount of calories that you consume that will insure that the fat is removed.
It is crucial that you are consistently performing between 2 and 5 different types of abdominal exercises at least twice a week in order to help eliminate those love handles and to tone and firm up the muscles. These exercises will train the muscles so that they will become stronger and in turn improve the appearance of the waist. But don't forget the importance of the calories you take in each day. These two factors combined can produce fantastic results.
I'd like to give you a few more suggestions to carry out the kinds of abdominal exercises conducive to reducing the size of your waist. Regardless of which exercise you are performing, remember that abdominals require more repetitions then other body parts when working out. It is important that as you become more efficient at doing the exercises, that you alter their speed so that the body does not adapt to your routine and stagnate your progress. When you first start out do them slowly and deliberately. A few exercises that you may want to try in order to get rid of those love handles you have are as follows:-
1. The Basic Crunch Exercise - This one is specifically used to train the rectus abdominis muscle that runs from the breastbone down to the top of your pelvis. First off you'll want to lay on the floor with your feet apart about the same width as your hips with your feet flat on the floor and your knees bent. Now place your hands behind your head so that they cradle it. You can intertwine your fingers if you'd like but ensure your elbows are rounded inward slightly. Now just move your chin slightly towards your chest and as you do this pull in the muscles of your abdomen. When comfortable begin to slowly curl your head, neck and shoulders up from the floor and as you move into the final position exhale. Once you have reached a position you are comfortable with stay in it for several seconds before slowly lowering your head, neck and shoulders back down to the floor remembering to inhale as you do so.
2. The Twist Crunch Exercise - Along with improving the condition of the rectus abdominis muscle this one works on the two sets of muscles that wrap around the waist known as the internal and external obliques. Again lay on the floor as you would with the basic crunch exercise but when you begin to raise up your head, neck and shoulders you need to twist them towards the left. Again breathe out as you raise yourself up and then hold the position for a number of seconds before lowering yourself back down again and of course don't forget to breathe in. Now repeat this exercise again but this time you need to twist your head, neck and shoulders to the right. It is crucial when doing this particular love handles exercise that you simultaneously twist your neck, head and shoulders and not create momentum by swinging the elbows. It is the muscles that surround your stomach and waist that you are wanting to tone and firm up so you need to make sure that you concentrate on twisting your body from the middle.
Years ago I read quite a few books on bodybuilding and I'd like to pass this little exercise along to you that I learned from Franco Columbo, a well known bodybuilder in his day. I'm sure you've seen how bodybuilders strike a pose and you've probably seen a few guys who were not truly bodybuilders do the same. You know, how they show their biceps and at the same time pull their stomach muscles in to instantly appear like one of the "after" photos in a contest. Well the actual movement of drawing in those stomach muscles is an exercise that we can do anytime we think about it and it doesn't matter where we are. Of course I'm not recommending that you suck them in as far as you can, but only to a point that is comfortable to you. Over time this little exercise will strengthen those muscles and it will become increasingly more comfortable to maintain.
Next, pay attention to your self talk. Everything you say to yourself is being recorded in your subconscious mind and is creating and recreating your self image. Even when you don't do so well find something positive to tell yourself. If you only did half of what you intended to do, tell yourself well that's better than nothing. And when you do nothing, tell yourself "That's not like me. I'll do better next time".
Also, make sure you are thinking positively. Self talk and thinking go hand in hand. I'm sure you've heard the old cliche that you can do anything you set your mind to. So set your mind on your desired result and think about how it will feel to be the you that you want to be. Be determined. Others have done it. Why not you? Why not now?
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