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One Side Leg Raises

This is a great way to use your bodyweight to really work your obliques.

From side plank position, making sure your elbow is directly underneath your shoulder, lower your body until your hips touch the ground. You can have your feet scissored (as shown) or on top of each other.
Tense your obliques (side abs) to raise your body back up to a proper side plank position, with your neck and spine in a neutral position.

Bench Leg Raises

Leg raises on a bench or other raised surface are great because you can lower your legs further, allowing your lower abs to be more effectively targeted.

Sit at the end of a bench, resting on your coccyx bone.
Place your hands slightly behind you, or under your coccyx if you need support.
Keep your feet held together and lower them off the bench, keeping your legs straight.
Tense your abs, bringing your legs upwards whilst bending your legs until they form a 90 degree angle with your hips. Hold for 2-3 seconds.
Slowly release your legs, extending them outwards again to the starting position. This is one rep.

Ab Bikes

The ab bike is a great movement to hit all of your ab muscles with one exercise.

Lay flat on your back, with your feet extended in front of you.
Bend your elbows, placing your hands at the side of your head (you can rest them behind your head, never pull on your neck)!
Bend your knees at a 90 degree angle with your hips.
Cycle between bringing your opposite elbow and knee to each other, whilst extending your other leg outwards as shown. Your legs should circle around like they would if you were riding a bike.
Make sure to twist your torso, tensing your abs as you make a cycling movement.
Each time you’ve completed a cycle of each side, that is one rep.

Glute Bridge

An essential move to grow big glutes!

Lie flat on your back with your arms at your side.
Bend your knees and place your heels on the floor.
Squeeze your glutes to lift your hips off the ground until your knees, hips and shoulders are all aligned. Hold for 2-3 seconds at the top.
Slowly release back down until your hips are on the floor. This is one rep.

Plank

Start on your hands and knees and place your forearms on the floor, with your elbows directly under your shoulders.
Raise your torso off the ground, having that balls of your feet touching the ground as shown.
Brace your core and squeeze your glutes, whilst keeping your back in a neutral position without any curvature. Your hips should be level with your shoulders.
Hold for as long as you can! Try to extend this time to improve your core strength.

Plank Rotations

Start in a high plank / push up position.
Tense your core, shifting your weight over one of your arms. Lift the other arm, rotating it around until it is pointing up in the air. Hold for 2-3 seconds.
Slowly reverse this motion, keeping your core tense until it is under you securely again. This is one rep.

Crunches

The crunch is a great base ab exercise.

Lie flat on your back.
Place your hands at the side of your head or flat beside you. Don’t pull on your head or neck.
Tense your abs to bring your torso off the floor, whilst at the same time using your abs to raise your legs into the air to complete the crunch.
Hold for 2-3 seconds before returning to a flat initial position. One crunch is one rep.

Flutter Kicks

Flutter kicks are a simple way to give your hip flexors, lower abs and quads a workout.

Lie flat on your back on the floor or on a bench.
Lift both feet an inch or two in the air.
Tense your lower abs to raise one leg.
Alternate between raising each leg, lowering them to 1-2 inches above the ground. A flutter kick with both legs counts as one rep.

Best Exercises for Getting Rid of Love Handles

Don’t love your love handles? Well, you’re not alone.

Most of us don’t like to have a spare tire hanging around our middles. There are two things you will have to do if you want to reveal the beautiful curves hidden behind your excess abdominal weight.

One, is, of course, to reduce your caloric intake in order to create the deficit that will allow for weight loss. Most diets are based on a daily caloric intake of 1200-1800 calories, depending on how much weight you have to lose to get into the range of a healthy BMI, or weight range for your height, sex, and age.

The more you have to lose, the higher your caloric intake can be on the range above, while still allowing weight loss. The less you have to lose, the fewer calories you will have to take in in order to see your weight go down.

Without eating less, and more healthy food, no amount of exercise will banish those love handles. However, if you combine the following exercises with small, frequent, low-calorie meals, you will get the results that you are seeking.

Abdominal weight can be a problem for several reasons. One is aesthetic; you can get away with a big bottom, or large chest, and still look great, as long as your abdomen is trim enough to emphasize your delicious curves.

But a flabby stomach can disrupt your body lines, creating a shapeless look that eclipses your natural form. Another issue is, even more importantly, your health.

Abdominal fat can mean organ fat, which is really not healthy for you and can interfere with your body’s organ functions, leading to the development of illnesses like diabetes, high blood pressure, gallstones, and liver problems, to name just a few.

Another factor in losing your love handles is general aerobic exercise. By adding at least one exercise method, in addition to the abdominal exercises below, you can jump-start your metabolism, meaning that your body burns calories faster.

By adding a daily dose of walking, running, swimming, cycling, interval training, weight lifting, aerobic, dancing, or Pilates, your overall health will benefit. All these exercise methods burn calories to different degrees, which of course will speed up your journey to the weight loss you seek.

When you feel good, you tend to eat better, and daily exercise can improve your mood, outlook, and self-esteem, all-important to keep you on a healthy path towards revealing your best self and living your best life.

Losing weight, and doing our kick-ass exercises can help catapult you out of a formless, unhealthy state, into a curvy powerhouse. Stomach strengthening exercises help to form your body’s core strength, protecting your back from curvature and potential disc slips and other injuries.

As your weight comes down, you will be thrilled to see the emergence of your new, powerful form; a direct result of the exercises listed below. If you are already at your ideal weight, these exercises can help you to achieve the tone that you long for, shaping your waist, forming lower and upper abdominal muscles, and giving you that “ripped” look you perhaps never believed was possible for you.

Well, believe it. Doing these exercises 3-5 times a week, over the course of 6 (or more) weeks, should bring you both visible and palpable results. Bikini bod, here we come!

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