Make Your Love Handles Disappear - 3 Ab Exercises For Men

It’s not uncommon for men and women to benefit from the same type of abdominal exercises. There are, however, a few areas men should pay special attention to, for example love handles. They should really be called hate handles, cause we sure don’t love them!

We’ll be looking at 3 ab exercises for men that’s going to really target those love handles aroudn your waist. One of these exercises is purely aimed at fat burning in general, which is critical though if you want your abs to actually be visible.

Forget about abs machines: these exercises will really help you to get ripped.

Target the obliques with this exercise

From numerous martial arts comes an attacking technique that can not only crack ribs and concuss brains (not yours, the other guy’s), but is also a great ab exercise for the obliques - that’s where your love handles are.

It’s most commonly called the roundhouse kick because of the way it is executed. If you’re unlucky enough to have never been involved in any form of martial arts, doing this kick at first might be a challenge, but you just need to take it easy and give your muscles time to get used to the movement. You can simply kick at knee height for a start and gradually work your way up to waist height, which is where you want to be.

Get to a point where you can crank out at least 50 consecutive kicks on each leg. This kick is a great fitness and strength builder and works right from your shoulders down to your abs and legs. Be sure you’re well stretched though.

To shred your midsection

This isn’t really an ab exercise as such, but you need need to burn the fat around your midsection to make your abs visible, and this is great for that.

High intensity sprinting burns fat like few other activities. Running through loose sand or up an incline adds even more resistance and power to sprints. Actively use your arms and shoulders while running. This wil get more of your upper body moving and will help tone your waist.

Hanging rotates

This may be a fairly tough exercise depending on your fitness level, so work up to it if you can’t do it right away. Grab a pullup bar and hang with your arms straight. Turn your lower body to the left at a 45 degree angle. Now raise your knees into your abdomen and swing your lower body all the way round until you’re facing 45 degrees to the right, then lower your legs. Repeat the exercise to the other side.

To add more difficulty to this when it becomes easy, lift your legs straight out in front of you instead of bending your knees.

These 3 ab exercises for men give you 3 ways to tone your obliques, burn fat and condition your body all in one go.

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