The Best Workout for Love Handles With Weights

Unfortunately, it is impossible to only lose the weight from your love handles. To reduce love handles, you must reduce overall body fat and, for men, love handles tend to be the last things to come off. Many exercises can be done to help tone the muscle under the love handles, or fat burning exercises that help remove body fat. By using weights, you create maximum fat burn, as the more muscle you have, the more fat you lose.

Cardio

• A cardio program is needed to burn fat. Many cardio programs incorporate light weights into the movements to make you work harder. Any type of cardio program will work, such as aerobics, dancing, swimming, running and circuit training. You need to raise your metabolism to get the love handle fat to come off. Schedule in a minimum of 20 minutes of cardio exercise three to five times a week.

Crunches

• Many different types of crunches focus on toning the muscles in your abdomen and love handles, or obliques. Such crunches include a reverse crunch, legs up crunch, twisting crunch and hip rollers. Add additional resistance to twisting crunches by holding a weight on the shoulder that turns or holding a weight when performing a regular crunch.

Stability Ball

• Lie back on a stability ball and twist from side to side while holding a pair of dumbbells in front of you. The dumbbells make the exercise much more difficult. If you are just beginning, you can hold a smaller ball in your hands. You can also perform other crunches using the stability ball. This really challenges your oblique muscles, as they constantly work to keep your body steady on the ball.

Weights

• You do not need a set of professional weights to lose body fat. You can find items in your home that can function as weights. Simply use these with your workout to add resistance. Empty milk bottles can be filled with sand and pebbles to create weights. You can lift a heavy can from the pantry. The item should be heavy enough, and be held comfortably.