Who Gets Love Handles?

Got a spare tire? Wearing a donut? A man’s love handles will sometimes, in pronounced cases, make him look as though he has a tire or donut-shaped floatation device stashed underneath his t-shirt. More than likely, he’ll be wearing an oversized shirt, hoping to hide the rubber-‘round-the-middle problem but everyone knows it’s there.

Unless you’re on the boardwalk in Atlantic City, you won’t see a woman with love handles sporting a bikini or ultra low-waisted pants. Love handles are much more common in men due to the fact that men’s bodies store fat around the midsection as they get older. Women also have problems with love handles, although, most women store excess fat or lingering weight gain around the thighs and buttocks.

Whether you’re a man or a woman, the problem with love handles is the same for both genders. Getting rid of them! These pesky rolls of fat that hang on for the long haul around your midsection are the kind of love that just keeps on giving. You can try all the “lose your love handles” exercises on a 7-minute ab burning workout DVD, seven times every week and still you will see that spare tire hanging on for dear life.

The key to losing your love handles lies in the perfect combination of a healthy diet with low caloric intake, exercising your abdominal region with all varieties of crunches and old-fashioned cardiovascular workouts.

So, you say you’ve been doing seven thousand sit-ups per week and you still have fat melting off the side of your body, hanging over your favorite jeans? That’s because you’re still having double desserts or you haven’t even looked at the treadmill since you began your abdominal assault.

Cardiovascular exercise is the only way to lose the fat from your abdomen that hangs on as a love handle. Because love handles are pure fat, the abdominal muscles you are building from all your ab workouts will be hidden under these handles of love until you burn them off by raising your heart rate, getting the body moving and kicking some cardio booty in the gym.