The Official “Love Handle” Solution (LOSE STUBBORN FAT)

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Love handles basically the epitome of stubborn body fat particularly in men .

What is it about this area that just tends to sort of take so long to go away , even at leaner levels of body fat , guys will still have areas of fat around their waist and their low back that just won't go away .

Well , today , I'm going to help you , I'm gonna give you the action plan a series of things that you can do that are going to help you to finally get rid of these love handles once and for all .

So look , whenever we talk about love handles , can we at least define them all the same way ?

Body fat , right ?

Body fat is body fat where we store it is what determines maybe whether it's more stubborn or not when it comes to the love handles though , what you do about it is always going to come down to the same solution and that is your diet and what you eat and what you put in your body .

Now , let's face it .

If you look like this right now though , there's love handles present there's a whole lot of other body fat present too .

And this person is not getting the nutrition right at all more .

The not they're choosing the wrong foods .

If you want to get to the bottom of your problem , you're going to have to choose the right foods more often than not .

And even just the clean eater or the guy who eats clean most of the time , it's not going to cut it when it comes to the love handles because again , it tends to be that stubborn fat that holds on to the very last drop .

You got to get it right .

More often than not even , sometimes 80 20 won't cut it .

You might just have to be better if it means that much to you .

You still with me .

Good because I'm gonna cheer you up now because what I just said is actually a lot simpler than you might think .

Now , maybe not easy for everybody , but definitely worthwhile .

And what I'm talking about is that , let's say 90 10 approach to nutrition .

And that means for every nine meals that you eat , that we all would agree are healthy .

And in line with somebody who's attempting to become hypo caloric and lose body fat .

The 10th meal is on me .

You can indulge in something that maybe you do right now .

But at a lesser frequency now , when it comes to alcohol , I would suggest this is an area that's a little bit easier to clean up too because we can just simply cut down either the number of times per week that we drink or the number of drinks we have each time we do drink and because we know that they're pretty empty calories and they start to stack up and add up quite quickly .

It might be an area that's a lot easier for you to fix than you might have thought .

And then when it comes to the actual foods we eat , I am going to suggest that you don't attempt to do this by becoming a carb phobic .

What I'm saying is , don't try to avoid carbs altogether .

Not only is it going to set you up for long term failure because you just can't deprive yourself forever of these delicious nutrients .

But you're going to find that it also interferes with the process in another way .

And that is though initial restriction of carbohydrates might actually cause you to lose some weight and even some water weight over time , you're actually going to increase your cortisol levels and your circulating cortisol levels have a lot to say about body fat , particularly stubborn body fat if we can decrease our cortisol levels by actually still having some carbohydrates in our body .

Not only are we going to help to not have this effect happen , but more importantly , as I said , we're going to maintain our sanity .

Guys , carbohydrates do tend to be foods that we crave .

However , we can certainly approach them more responsibly .

Here's why I always recommend to have a 2 to 1 ratio from the fibrous carbohydrates to the starchy carbohydrates .

If you're not sure what those are , you can always head to apple dot com slash carbs to see a complete list of these two categories .

For example , rice or pasta or baked potatoes or sweet potatoes .

I'm not asking you to take them off your plate entirely , just have less of them .

And the easiest way do that is to first fill your plate with more of the green stuff , right ?

The spinach broccoli , asparagus put twice as much of that on your plate as you would the starchy carbohydrate and not only can you enjoy them , but you're not going to have the caloric impact the density of those carbohydrates in particular that will tend to keep you in that hyper caloric state that's going to keep the body fat on .

You get to keep them on your plate , you get to keep your sanity and you get to get rid of those love handles once and for all .

And so again , we're not talking about something that's really complex , but it does require some consistency and that's what might be challenging .

But I will tell you this , it will work every single time if you follow what I'm saying here .

So as you start to see those early results , right ?

Even maybe you're starting at the 70 30 split , that's good .

As long as you're going down 70 30 80 20 towards 90 10 , you're going to start to see those results that will keep you inspired and going .

Now , that being said , there's another side of this equation here and that's what you're doing with your right .

What are you doing ?

In terms of the output , the input is taking care of what you eat .

But what are you doing in terms of your exercise ?

And there's three different things I like to focus on here .

The first one is what's the style of your training ?

Now , if your main goal is to lose body fat and you're doing bro , splits or you're doing even push , pull legs , which I love , I might argue that you're following the wrong training approach right now .

Now there is something you can do that would actually give you more bang for your buck and it's called peripheral heart action training fat .

And this is actually something that Bruce Lee used and even Vince Duda has used also .

Now , what we're talking about is a combination of compound exercises done in sequence , but rotating around your body .

So you do an upper body exercise , then you do a lower body exercise , you go back to an upper body , but maybe this time it's a pull exercise rather than a push and you keep going in sequence with no rest in between .

Now , the weight that can be used is one that can actually be challenging to your muscles .

So you can start building muscle of the metabolic stress route .

That's a good thing because the more muscle and lean muscle tissue you put on at rest , the more calories you burn , the easier time you have to get into that hyper caloric state .

The number of rounds that you do here is something you can build up to starting with even one or two and going up to maybe even six or seven .

But the fact is some training approaches are better than others .

When caloric burn is your focus and when you're looking to lose those love handles , especially that stubborn last bit of fat , this one might be the best one for you , but it's not just the type of training you do , but also the exercises that you select because you might say that , hey , it sounds pretty familiar to hit training .

What you just described a series of exercises done in sequence with very little rest in order to burn more calories .

However , the difference between , let's say peripheral heart action training and hit training is the exercise selection , choosing more of the compound based exercises that allow you to build muscle because we know that even though the exercises perform during a typical hit workout might be calorically slightly more expensive .

Maybe they allow you to burn 15 calories versus the 10 in some of the more compound lifts , you are still going to have the benefit of the added muscle mass that you can build through the fat training that's going to help you at rest .

Long after that hit , training , workout is over .

So calorically you're going to wind up burning more calories anyway .

And as an example of this , you could look at exercises like in overhead , press a front squat and then maybe into a barbell row , right and into a curl and you don't have to keep the weight the same here during this train .

This is not a complex .

You could switch out the weight .

So that's always something that's going to challenge you because we do want to rely on that metabolic overload to help you to build more muscle tissue .

Just remember though the exercises themselves are what's key here and making sure you choose the right ones is definitely going to be important when you're looking for that bigger impact to help you to get down to his body fat levels .

And even though these workouts will allow you to hit the big muscles , we still have one we haven't talked about , but we have to , if love handles are your problem and it's the obliques and some might misguide you by telling you that training the obliques is just going to thicken up your waistline .

I've said this before guys , the only thing thickening your waistline is the body fat that's laying over the top right now , when revealed because you can get those body fat levels down the obliques look amazing .

They actually do the best job .

All the muscles in creating that thinning and tapering effect to the waistline .

So we have to train them by how well , I recommend a few different things .

Number one , you have to learn how to rotate your torso in space .

So if you do an exercise like the Russian twist and you're just tapping your hands left to right , you're not really rotating your torso .

you have to row your arms and elbows back side to side to make sure you're turning your shoulders in space .

In order to train that muscle more effectively , might be the time you ever do it .

If you've been tapping your hands all along or you do an exercise like the bicycle crunch another standard exercise .

But oftentimes done incorrectly too .

And it's because you're just flipping your elbows back to back but not rotating your shoulders through space .

But it also wants you to get up on your feet because I know that there's benefits to be had there too .

And any of the resisted rotation exercises are going to be really effective for not just hitting the external obliques on one side , but also the intern obliques when you turn to the opposite side .

And of course , I want to get you up on the bar or beginners down on the floor .

But with the intentioned focus of contracting first , with the obliques , a lot of times we let the abs take over because we rush through the reps instead go really slow and focus on getting that rotation of the pelvis .

And if you do that guys , you're going to get better activation of the obliques .

And ultimately , as that bi fat level comes down a way better looking waistline .

So how much is this oblique work are we talking about ?

Well , ideally , if you could do a little bit every day , it will go a long way .

That being said , even just one or two oblique exercises is enough to get the job done .

If we can however , figure out other ways to incorporate it into the other training we're already doing , then we're ahead of the game .

And these are where things like the carry or even a suitcase lunch or other exercises that will challenge that lateral core stability will allow us to get more of that volume that's going to pay off the big dividends as you drop that body fat and almost sort of sneak it into the work you're already doing .

So , not a lot of extra work to do just making sure you're getting your work in .

And then the cardio part of this and a lot of people will put this first .

But as I said before , it's not where you want to start , but it doesn't mean that it doesn't play a part in helping to get rid of the love handles and particularly the stubborn fat because a lot of us have actually probably heard about fasting cardio and how important it can be in terms of dropping body fat .

And the truth of the matter is it may not be all it's cracked up to be while some may by others have actually pointed to the research that shows that it's kind of a net net when it comes to losing body fat because though you might be burning more fat during the session when fasted , you burn less fat afterwards .

If you were to do it in a fed state , you'll burn more carbohydrates , but you'll have more fat burning after the fat .

However , when it comes to that stubborn body fat , those last few pounds that you can't get off .

And again , when that fat is around the waist for guys that last to come off area , this is where faster cardio might play a bigger benefit .

So if you want to explore the option , guys , make sure you do , but not exclusively and don't put your hopes too much on it .

Being the big difference maker .

Remember what you put in your mouth is always going to be the biggest difference maker .

This is just gonna add to that and make things a little bit easier .

And speaking of easy , the easiest thing to do when you're not seeing fast results is to quit .

But when it comes to these stubborn areas of body fat , that sort of hang around , you gotta be willing to persevere and here's a perfect example of that .

Matt is somebody that followed our a program .

And you can see that after the first phase , he dropped a significant amount of fat in the face in the neck , even in the upper abs area , but not around his waist line , not in the love handle area .

And if he had quit at this point saying , you know what I'm lean , but it seems like I'm always going to carry this area around my waist .

He never would have saw these results .

And this is what happened when he continued and this is finally where those love handles went away .

But again , they don't get the name stubborn for a reason .

They're there because they do take that consistency of effort .

But if you put in the work and you do what I'm showing you here , I promise you those results are gonna be there for you .

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