Love handles workout

You’ve tried situps, cardio, and dumbbell side bends, but nothing seems to get rid of that stubborn belly fat on your sides. Sound familiar? It might be time to change up your gym routine—or start a new one.

This workout is effective because it’s fast paced and designed to target both the rectus abdominals and the transverse abdominals. To burn fat, you must do more then just crunches and situps; you need to recruit your entire body to enter a thermogenic state that leads to an accelerated rate of fat loss.

It’s worth noting that the best way to fight love handles and other stubborn fat areas is to prevent them from forming in the first place. More than likely, those love handles were caused by a previous increase in weight. When you put on weight, your ratio of testosterone to estrogen starts to shift in favor of estrogen. This is because fat cells produce estrogen. The more fat you have, the more estrogen is produced.

As you can imagine, this process can get out of hand if not taken control of early on. And once you have a large amount of fat on your body, it makes it that much harder to lose it, but certainly not impossible!