What exercises, and how are they performed, get rid of love handles (obliques)?
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Forget about doing specific exercises to tone up a certain area.  There is no such thing as spot reduction.  Love handles are just a way that the body stores excess body fat.  To lose or decrease the size of your love handles you need to lose body fat in general.  There is no way to lose body fat in a specific area (thats what I mean as no such thing as spot reduction).\n\nYour best bet is a good exercise program that combines cardiovascular exercise with restistance exercise, preferably on seperate days.\n\nIf you try to do specific exercises to strengthen the obliques (the muscle which lie directly under your love handles), all you'll end up doing is increasing the size of the obliques while having not changed the size of the love handles at all.  As a result your love handles will just look bigger!
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There's a couple of levels to this; for your "front" abs, crunches and sit ups are a good base, but it's really important to also do exercises that isolate your "oblique" abs.  There the muscles on either side of your six-pack.  A crunch-twist will work your obliques, and a side crunch works well also.  A crunch-twist is exactly that; do a standard crunch, then twist to one side, squeezing your rib cage towards your hip bone.  A side crunch is a crunch from your side.  Lay on your side with your hands behind your head, and lift your torso straight up towards your hip.  Also bicycles are great too.  on your back, both legs in the air at a 90 degree angle, and lower one leg towards the floor.  With your hands behind your head, lift the same elbow towards the other knee.  Then do the other side.  The works your lower abs as well.  but my favorite abs exercise are planks.  From your stomach, lift your arms straight up like you have done a single push-up.  Hold that position with your body perfectly straight.  This is a great abs workout, and ot also works out your shoulders and arms.
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Reverse crunches and leg lifts.
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you will want to focus on your obliques. use 5lb weights and with your feet shoulder length apart, and one arm on your waist, reach up to the ceiling with the other and go left and straight. do it on both sides
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lots of sit-ups, but diagonal, elbow to opposite knee.\nit works.
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If you are looking only for a flat stomach, I would suggest doing a lot of cardiovascular exercise.  Do cardio 5-6 times a week with about 45 minutes sessions at moderate/high intensity (switching during intervals).\n\nIf you want to tone your stomach, do crunches, pelvic tilts, and twisting exercises holding weight plate with both hands to build your obliques too.  I would avoid leg lifts unless your back can handle them.  It can put undue stress on your back.  Also, I would suggest strengthing your back too.  It will help balance your abdominals.
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Proper nutrition is the best way to remove fat from anywhere on your body.  However, the best exercises to give your butt, hips, and thighs great shape and muscle tone are LOTS and LOTS of squats and lunges, done in every direction:  front, side, and walking lunges; and regular, wide, and plie squats.  Running (or walking, if you can't run) stairs or hills is also great.
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Try these \nCrunches\nLie on your back with your hands crossed across your chest or with your fingers on the sides of your head. Place your feet on the floor with legs bent. To begin the exercise, lift your torso, lifting shoulder blades off the floor and crunching your rib cage towards your lower belly. Hold for two counts, then lower slowly to the starting position. Repeat for 16 slow repetitions, take a brief rest and repeat for 1 or more sets.\n\nReverse Crunches\nLie on your back with knees bent, feet a few inches off the floor. Slowly contract the abdominals, focusing on rotating the pelvis up and bringing your knees towards your rib cage. Concentrate on letting your abs do the work. Hold at the top then slowly lower your knees to the starting position. Repeat for 16 reps, less if you feel your lower back arching off the ground. Rest and repeat for 1 or more sets\n\n\nBall Crunches\nLie face-up with the ball resting under your mid/lower back. Cross your arms over the chest or place them behind your head. Contract your abs to lift your torso off the ball, pulling the bottom of your ribcage down toward your hips. As you curl up, keep the ball stable (i.e., you shouldn't roll). Lower back down, getting a stretch in the abs, and repeat for 1 set 12-16 reps.\n\nOblique Crossover Crunches\nLie on your back with knees bent, hands behind your head. Keeping lower back pressed into the floor, lift your shoulder blades off the floor and then curl your upper body diagonally across your body towards your right knee. Contract your abs and obliques as hard as you can at the top of the movement. Lower back down and repeat for 16 reps on the same side before switching sides. Do 1 or more sets.
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You can do various isometric exercises as simple as contracting the muscle against anything that can resist it.  Pull and push against the steering wheel; squeeze your buttocks against the seat, look for anything in the truck you can pull or push on.  \n\nYou can also do contractions for you stomach muscle and abs; pull your stomach against the back of the seat as if you were punched in the stomach, hold it as tightly as possible for twenty seconds, then reverse your pelvis imagining there is a cord attached to your belly button pulling it forward, letting this action progress through all of your vertebrae until you are slightly arched in the upper back and then repeat.  \n\nDon’t forget to breath while doing your exercises; incorporate breathing into the exercise.
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Okay..I suggest losing the weight that you're using with your crunches..that will give you bulging stomach muscles.\n\nFor each exercise do 8 repetitions of the motion.  This is called a set.  Do 3 sets.\nStanding Dumbbell Curls \n\nThis exercise is similar to the barbell curl. It works the biceps and forearms. \n\nGrab a pair of dumbbells. Stand with your feet shoulder width apart. Let the dumbbells hang at arms length on each side of your body. Keep your elbows close to your torso at all times. \n\nMoving only your forearms, use your bicep strength to curl the dumbbells up to shoulder level. Rotate your hands so that your palms are facing upwards at the top. Hold this position for a second to maximize the peak contraction in the biceps. Slowly lower the dumbbells to the starting position. Repeat. \n\nTricep Dumbbell Extensions \n\nThis exercise works the triceps, particularly the long inner head of the triceps. \n\nGrab a dumbbell with one hand. Stand with your feet shoulder width apart. Lift the dumbbell so that it is at arms length straight above you shoulder. Keep a slight bend in your knees to take pressure off the lower back. \n\nLower the dumbbell in an arc motion behind your head until your elbow is at a 90-degree angle. Lift the dumbbell in an arc motion back to the starting position. Repeat for the desired number of reps. Do the same for the other arm. \n\nTip - You can do this exercise with both arms at the same time by using a barbell, two dumbbells, or holding 1 dumbbell with two hands. \n\nI hope this helps!
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Work the "Triceps".\n\n1.  Aerobically...when doing stuff like step, keep your arms going up and down for the whole step class (like you're a ballarina and you form an oval with the arms, but you move this oval up and down).  Aerobics burns fat, and is highly recomended for getting rid of that arm jiggle.\n\n2.  Weights:\n  A.  Skull Crushers:  Start with a 10 lbs bar.  Lye on your back.  Take the bar and hold at a 90 degree angle from chest.  Slowly bend at elbows and bring bar down to your head <aim for your hairline>.  Do this ten times, rest and repeat another 3-4- times.  Weights build muscel which tone, and keep the muscel firm reducing muscel flab.
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Double chins and love handles are the result of being overweight. Lose the weight and these two problems will possibly leave you. It also depends on your age, skin elasticity, and how fast you lose the weight. If you are very obese and lose the weight too fast, your skin cannot naturally adapt and you will be left with hanging skin that can only be fixed surgically. If you are older your skin will have lost some of its elasticity and may not go back to being firm and tight as it once was even when you lose the weight. There are no double chin exercises I know of. Lose the weight overall with sensible eating, cardio exercises and weight training. The sensible eating will nourish you, give you the energy you need to exercise to burn the fat, and the weight training will strengthen and tone your entire body and enhance the fat burning affects of your cardio. (Of interest to women-weight training will also increase your bone density. A lot of women don't know that.) It is an overall strategy you need: Nutrition, Cardio, Load Bearing Exercises.  It works great. \n\nAnd surgery if the elasticity isn't there any more. \nAlas!
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Push-ups with your elbows next to your body.\nTricep presses.\nBicep curls.
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There are many variations of Ab Workouts that can be done. Keep in mind that there are really 3 sections of the stomach that you must work constantly in order to see results: Upper abdominal muscles, Lower abdominal muscles, and Obliques (muscles on the side of the stomach). Here is a list of a few abdominal exercises. \n\n1. Sit-up/Crunch – This can be done on various machines, exercise ball, or on a floor mat. \n\n2. Leg Lifts – many ways this exercise can be done including hang from a bar, or leg lift machine which allows weight to be supported by elbows, sitting on the edge of bench, or finally lying on back and lifting legs toward head. (Variation: Jackknifes, which you bring your outstretch arms and legs above your body from a lying position)\n\n3. Use Triceps rope to do weighed crunches. \n\nThe list goes on and on. Please check out the link provided as BodyBuilding.com does and outstanding job of not only explaining the exercise but also proving pictures of the various exercises. 47 in total!!\n\n\nhttp://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/exercises.php?MainMuscle=Abdominals
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push ups (all the different ways to do them), crunches, sit ups, tri-cep dips, the plank for abs, bycicle crunches, leg lifts, leg pop ups, ab throws, chin ups..\n\nfor the leg lifts/leg pop ups you lay on your back with your hands underneath your loweback and you use your abs to lift your legs up to a 90 degree angle and then you slowly lower them back down and then repeat. don't let your legs hit the floor in between. it really squeezes your abs. do as many reps are you can.\n\nrunning really helps to burn fat off your bodyso that your muscles are not covered.
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Try doing crunches from a sitting position, in a straight backed chair. You get the same results, with much less discomfort to your back. You just need to pull your knees up toward you and let them down slowly. It works wonders!
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crunches, crunches, crunches! it works, just give it time!! plus, after you do them you feel like you did something healthy (which you did) Do them straight, and on both sides. Eat lots of fruit