There's an awful lot of stuff on the internet that will show you how to get fat off your love handles. The fact is most of it's crap. Designed to sell you some crap diet or some pills.

The side bend is the usual suspect in the exercise for love handles category. Grab a broom handle and hold it high, then bend from side to side. I wish! It would be nice if they actually worked.

The fact they won't work is that targeting one particular area to lose weight from is nigh on impossible. You'll always get the smart ass telling you they do work. They will work if you incorporate them with an all round system.

If you do side bends as part of a thorough workout then they will work. If your workout is also part of an all round system you could double your results. It's a simple fact. Burn more energy than you consume to lose weight.

Consuming energy means eating it, usually food. Burning energy off is done simply by activity or exercise. Exercise can be any form of activity that burns calories.

Any of these will do … Swimming, jogging, cycling, walking, and making love even! Any form of exercise is better than no form of exercise. The reason a lot of us are overweight is we eat food that is stuffed with calories. Then we fail to burn those calories off.

You can exercise for your love handles all you want but if you ignore other areas you will simply get nowhere fast. I'm a naturally lazy person so I tend to go swimming a lot. It's a great non impact all round exercise. If you have access to a pool, use it. The benefits are immense.

I personally turn my nose up at jogging. I see no point in spending hours in pain and shortening the life of your knees. The guy who popularised jogging actually died while out jogging in a park somewhere. He was discovered by 2 smokers walking past. Irony eh?

If you think it's time you took your health & weight serious then you can help yourself by getting a good all round system. Not some new fangled diet that won't work but a system that will work long term and is gentle enough for you to keep at it. Check out (probably) the best five systems that are out there at this site …

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