Best Cardio Exercise for Love Handle Destruction
You can get rid of love handles with the right type of cardio exercise.
The wrong kind of cardio exercise, if you want to get rid of love handles, is the so-called long slow aerobics, a.k.a. steady state aerobics.
This is why you’ll often see people with love handles that never disappear, even though these folks spend a lot of time jogging, walking, pedaling, taking all sorts of classes like belly dancing, Zumba, low impact aerobics, step aerobics, etc.
The fat in love handles is fuel that’s not being used. Steady state cardio is not intense enough to force the body to significantly pull from these stubborn fat depots.
Get Rid of Ugly Love Handles
Another form of cardio will do the trick: HIIT: high intensity interval training. HIIT changes body chemistry and causes a metabolic ripple effect that results in substantially more fat burned.
This is because HIIT raises the body’s recovery needs so much, that the body starts pulling from the fat depots in the waist: the love handles.
Love handles will start shrinking with HIIT. High intensity interval training yields fantastic results in a fraction of the time that long steady state cardio would have to generate for the same results.
If you’re wondering, “Wow, this sounds too good to be true; there must be a catch!”
I’ll be honest: There is a catch. It’s hard work. Hard Work.
HIIT is not pretty. It gets you madly out of breath, like a cheetah panting like mad after failing to catch an impala.
Ever see what a cheetah looks like when the impala gets away? The animal is so winded it must stop completely and collect itself.
That’s pretty much the exertion level of genuine HIIT if you want to experience its fat burning effect to the max.
The good news is that each intensity interval lasts 30 seconds or less, and you need to do only seven or eight to create a huge bang for your buck. Kiss your unsightly love handles goodbye!
Lorra Garrick is a former personal trainer certified through the American Council on Exercise. At Bally Total Fitness she trained women and men of all ages for fat loss, muscle building, fitness and improved health.
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Not all deep vein thromboses resolve with the aid of drugs, especially when they are long and dense.
“DVT stands for deep venous thrombosis, which represents abnormal blood clotting in the veins, usually involving the lower extremities,” says Morton Tavel, MD, Clinical Professor Emeritus of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, and author of “Health Tips, Myths and Tricks: A Physician’s Advice.”
Dr. Tavel explains, “The main problem originating from this disorder is the detachment of parts or all of these venous clots breaking off and landing upstream in the lungs, resulting in a potentially dangerous pulmonary embolus (PE).”
This is a blood clot in the lung that requires immediate treatment.
“The DVT itself will ordinarily resolve without the need for removal, and the treatment of this problem is aimed at preventing further clotting through the use of various anticoagulants,” says Dr. Tavel.
But sometimes a deep vein thrombosis is particularly dangerous: dense and long.
In 2013 a 62-year-old patient presented at the ER of Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center with shortness of breath and other symptoms.
A CT scan showed a two foot long DVT which began from his legs and went into his heart.
A clot busting drug was no match for this monster. The man’s doctor referred to the 24 inch long DVT as a “wad of gum in a pipe.”
Dr. John Moriarty told the patient that the only other options were open heart surgery or AngioVac—a vacuum procedure.
The patient chose the minimally invasive AngioVac. A week later he was back home.
How was this dense, very long DVT removed?
- A tiny camera went down the patient’s esophagus so that doctors could see his heart.
- A coiled hose was guided through his neck; one end of this hose was plugged into the patient’s heart, against the DVT.
- Then, the hose’s other end was threaded through a groin vein.
- Then the hose was hooked up to a heart-bypass device which created suction.
The AngioVac sucked up this ultra-long deep vein thrombosis from the heart. The device “filtered out solid tissue,” points out Dr. Moriarty in the report.
It “restored the cleansed blood through a blood vessel near the groin.” No need for a blood transfusion.
The procedure lasted three hours. The clot buster (tPA) would have taken three or maybe four days to work.
Here is more information on AngioVac — a mechanical means for the removal of fresh, soft deep vein thromboses.
Dr. Tavel’s medical research includes over 125 publications, editorials and book reviews in peer-reviewed national medical journals. He was formerly director of the cardiac rehabilitation program at St. Vincent Hospital in Indiana. mortontavel.com
Lorra Garrick has been covering medical, fitness and cybersecurity topics for many years, having written thousands of articles for print magazines and websites, including as a ghostwriter. She’s also a former ACE-certified personal trainer.
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Source: sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130918101437.htm
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Women will get stronger at pushups if they follow my no-nonsense strengthening plan–designed by me, a woman who does pushups very easily.
I was a personal trainer for five years at a gym and taught many women to do pushups.
And I mean REAL pushups, not the cheat kind (e.g., upper back jutting out, face jutting forward, tummy sagging).
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I actually do pushups with my feet (not shins, but the tops of my feet only) on a high stool, while maintaining a straight line with my body from head to feet.
However, this is a very advanced way of doing pushups, but it’s just to assure you that my plan will definitely work for women wishing to get stronger at standard pushups.
Seated chest press machine. Women will develop stronger pushups by doing seated chest presses. The motion is actually a pushup angled upward by 90 degrees.
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The advantage is that a woman, no matter how weak, will always be able to do seated chest presses.
Find a machine with handle widths that are similar to the width you’d place your hands apart in a pushup.
After two warm-up sets with light resistance (15-20 reps), increase the weight load so that 12 reps are difficult. Increase again so that you can barely do eight reps.
Eight reps should take it all out of you. Do two more sets at eight reps. How much weight this will require will vary from one woman to the next.
Flat bench dumbbell press. Lie on a flat bench and simply press upward dumbbells in each hand. Apply the same protocol as with the seated chest press routine.
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Modified pushups. The reason I recommend seated chest press and flat bench dumbbell press, to get stronger with pushups, is that women usually struggle quite a bit with pushups. If all that women did were pushups, they’d quickly become discouraged.
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To keep motivated and fired up, it’s important to perform other chest routines that you can actually do, and thus, feel good about, rather than, “I’m such a weakling!”
Nevertheless, to get stronger with pushups, women should also do these as well. Women will get stronger far faster if they modify pushups so that they can actually complete reps with full range of motion, as opposed to attempting to do military (or men’s) variations of the pushup.
I see women struggling like mad to complete just one military pushup, and after many months, they’re still struggling.
Instead, place your hands on a slightly elevated platform. This can be the round side of a BOSU board, or the flat side of the BOSU.
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If it’s the flat side, grip the edge of the platform so that your fingers are curled over the edge.
Now try pushups with only the tops of your feet on the floor, body forming a straight line from head to toe.
If you can’t, then modify further by placing your knees on the floor. Don’t bow down to the platform!
I see women, with knees on floor, bowing down all the time.
This is not a modified pushup at all. It’s bowing and will not increase your pushup strength.
If you can’t help but bow, then further modify by doing pushups in a standing position, hands either against a wall, or against a ballet bar or railing bar.
Place feet out away from the bar, put hands on bar, keep your body straight, and lean towards the bar.
Don’t bow towards the bar. Now push away. A very novice woman should be able to do repetitions this way. Do four sets, up to 12 repetitions.
Over time as you get stronger, move on to knee pushups with hands on elevated platform.
Along the way, you’ll notice yourself getting stronger with the other chest routines.
Don’t just keep using the same resistance. Every few weeks, increase it, always striving for those 12-rep, and then eight-rep, maxes.
If you have it in you to push yourself to complete muscle exhaustion, you need only do these routines once a week.
If you can’t push as hard as you know you can, then do these routines twice a week with several days in between.
For women to get stronger for pushups, they must employ pinpoint form: no sagging back or shoulder blades jutting out, and no pitching forward of the head in an attempt to touch your nose to the floor while the rest of your body lags behind. And, no bowing!
Lorra Garrick is a former personal trainer certified through the American Council on Exercise. At Bally Total Fitness she trained women and men of all ages for fat loss, muscle building, fitness and improved health.
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