I want to loose maybe....15 lbs. before i go.What are some really good exercises to tighten my stomach, work on my thighs, and get rid of these love handles!
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Squats, with your legs spread about a feet apart, always keep your butt at least a foot from the ground. That works your thighs and butt. Sit-ups for the stomach, have someone hold your legs down, and don't put your arms behind your head, that doesn't really help. Make sure it's your stomach muscles your's bringing up, not just your neck.
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You have to loose your overall body fat. There is no way you can loose body fat in any specific area of your body. The best way to loose fat is not cardio but weight training. \nAnd the best way to do loose fat with weight training is pick workouts that workout large areas of muscles, like the lunges, the squats or the bent rows.\nWhen the bigger muscle breaks, more is the metabolism, more is the fat of the body used up for the metabolism.\nAnd the fat in the waist is the "first to come and last to go" ... so if you loose your love handles, you probably have lost fat already all over the rest of the body.
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I teach Yoga and Pilates.  They are the best thing for you- all natural forms of exercise, they will STRENGTHEN your lower back safely, tone you up and make your stronger. (Yes they help you loose weight. Your heart rate will increase when doing it correctly for longer than 30 minutes at a time which will burn calories. It will also tone your muscles. As your muscles become more massive, you will also burn more calories..its a win/win situation.) I have a student that took my Yoga class 1/week for two months, and gradually added up to three classes a week by her 5th month. She lost about 8" all around, gained 200% in upperbody strength and lost about 7 pounds. And she wasn't even a big girl to start with. Just a little flabby here and there. \n\nHealthier eating schedule is VERY important...especially with Yoga. Yoga is mind/body process which foucuses on get rid of the toxins in your body. The less toxins you put in, the better your results.  I would say drink only water or herbal tea, ever. That's the rule I go by. THat alone makes a huge weight loss difference for a lot of my students. Additionally, avoid unnatural foods, and try to eat AFTER your Yoga or Pilates workout. \n\nNow as far as DVDs go... they are not really good for beginners. You need to find a class or two- preferably one that meets 3 times a week so that you have a living breathing human in front of you to show you how to do the exercises.  Yoga without proper alignment is pointless, and you can't be SURE of proper alignment without a qualified instructor present. Same goes for Pilates. Not to mention that variety in your class will keep your body "on its toes" since variety is key in any workout. Videos obviously only repeat, so they will become useless after a time.\n\nGood luck!
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You have to lose fat before you tighten anything honey. Do lots of cardio, then work on your ab muscles by doing a variety of stomach and lower back exercises to strengthen your core.\nRemember, you can't spot reduce!!!
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have you been eating more?  How long are you working out? and hour? half hour? Remember first that muscle weighs more than fat does..really...most adults should strive for 30 minutes of exercise everyday..to loose weight you'll need to increase your cardio and decrease your caloric intake..lost 22 pounds this summer...was really strict w/calories..no junk, no mid am snack, mid pm snack was steamed veggies, reminded myself that it was okay to be hungry, and worked out 5-6 days a week for a minimum of 60  minutes, more like 90 minutes a day...drank tons of water and iced tea..it worked but it was hard work...you can do this..have an epiphany to change your life and embrace good health
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I used to have a stubborn tummy that refused to go away, and a very weak back... my spine grew slightly twisted. I now have beautiful abs and a powerful core, thanks to Joyce Vedral's ab exercises. I'll be doing these for the rest of my life. \nYou can check out her website at www.joycevedral.com. She finally came out with exercise videos and dvds, I find them much more convenient than her books. Good luck!
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If your partner loves them, then why get rid of them?  It's up to you, though.  If you want to wear 'skinny' jeans, then you'll have to get rid of the handles then.... the old fashioned way.  Eat a healthy diet, workout and get plenty of cardio.  Cardio burns the fat.  Drink lots of water while dieting to remove the body of toxins while burning fat.\n\nOh, and BTW, you can't target one area of the body for fat loss.  When you lose fat, you lose it all over.
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First, for all of the "quick and easy" weight loss diet pill suggestions, remember, if something sounds too good to be true... it probably is, particularly if you have to pay for it.\n\n\nOn Yahoo!Answers I find certain questions being asked repeatedly which is simply a reflection of new people participating. A couple of common questions amount to "How do I lose weight," or more specifically, "How do I lose abdominal fat?" I have gotten very positive responses from my answers when I paused to reply (and now beginning to get "It works!" emails that are very gratifying. I like helping people)... so have recently decided to put a good solid answer on my Yahoo!360 Blog (September 10) that I can point people to. These are my thoughts as a physician and athlete.\n\nDon't target losing more than about 2 lbs per week. If you try to lose faster, your body will go into "starvation mode" and get very stingy about burning calories while at the same time very efficient about storing any calories that you do provide. And it will make you feel awful. \n\nThere is no site specific way of losing fat... the old myth about working your abs to burn belly fat isn't true. To get rid of love handles, you need to lose overall fat. That happens with exercise and watching your diet. More on that below. \n\nThe most effective way to lose fat is aerobic exercise in the "moderate" fat-burning range, ideally first thing in the morning before you eat. When you wake your body is ready to burn fat and your levels of growth hormone are highest at that time. Later in the day it can take up to 30 minutes just to put your body into a fat-burning mode. \n\nAnother overlooked way to burn fat is by lifting weights. Skeletal muscle has very high caloric needs... almost twice that of adipose (fat) tissue. Put on a little muscle and you will burn calories all day even at rest. Be aware that skeletal muscle weighs more, so with this approach you may see your weight increasing while your body fat is melting away. Not realizing this often stresses folks who think they should be losing weight as a measure of fitness. Forget the scale, look in the mirror and you will be happy.\n\nTo lose a pound of fat, you need to eliminate about 3500 calories. You can do this by burning more with exercise or by modifying your diet to reduce intake. If you do a Google search on say, "swimming calories" you will quickly find a website with tables of calories burned for a given exercise. You can use such lists to estimate how many calories you are burning up with your routine.\n\nFor diet, keep a diary for a couple of weeks counting calories, grams of protein, and grams of fat intake. It is easy with online sources of nutritional information (type the name of the food and calories into the Google search engine) and packaging labels. That will let you quickly figure out where the fat is coming from in your diet. \n\nFat gives you 9 calories per gram. So take the number of grams of fat, multiply by 9, then calculate what percentage the fat calories are of your total daily calories. Restricting the calories from fat to about 20% of your total intake is ideal for a maintenance diet... that isn't overly restrictive. Of note, you need some fat in your diet. For instance, the body uses fat to produce hormones. Once you have a picture of how to modify your diet, you can drop the diary and just go back to it occasionally if you are wanting to tweek things further.\n\nThere is a subset of questions that goes further and asks about "How to get a six-pack?" The answer is the same. Six-packs are 20% abdominal exercise and 80% diet. There is one caveat... abdominal muscles will form in the position that you work them, so be certain to pull them tightly toward your spine while doing crunches, etc. Also, during most lifting, the "core is active" which means that you should be stabilizing with contracted abs
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Jennifer I am about to change your thoughts on weight loss.\nI have client( I'm a fitness trainer) that give up on going to the gym so as a last resort I tell them about bodyflex.\nthere have been great results with it. Bodyflex is breathing exercises you can do anywhere. Go to a book store\nand get the book. or look up the program on the Internet\nyou wont regret it I promise. if three is any questions I can help you with just click on my avatar. Good luck
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OMG! you sound like my twin or something! im 14,  5'4", and weigh about 107. it sounds like we have the same shape too, and i was wondering how to get rid of mine also! you can try doing those side crunches..
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The ultimate hip, butt, and thigh exercise are lunges. They target those areas big time. Be careful these are a little tricky to do at first and form is extremely important. The pay-offs are phenom!!! Check some of the muscle mags as I am sure they cover lunges at some point. If I were you I would not use any weight at first, just your natrual body weight. Hope this helps....
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Eat less, exercise more.\nEat a normal, healthy, balanced diet.\nYour energy-food (carbohydrates and fat) intake should be just a little less than the energy needed for your level of exercise.\nThose 'love handles' are excess fat accumulated when you eat too much carbohydrate and fat.
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First the weight; get a bathroom scale that shows your bodyfat. Weight is not important, the percentage of bodyfat you have IS.\n\nAerobics will get your bodyfat down, but you need to do some additonal exercises to get the stomach flat. Gravity is pulling your stomach muscles down, that is why you have the "love handles."\n\nLie on a floor, your kitchen is a good choice. Put your knees up, your feet up under the bottom of the kitchen counter cabinets. Put your arms across your upper chest. Raise your upper back 1/4 up off the floor. HOLD yourself up for 20 seconds. FEEL your abs tighten up and shake. Do every other day.\n\nDo not put your hands behind your head, do not go up any higher than 1/4 up off the floor. This exercise tightens up only the abs. If you go up any higher, your sides and back muscles are pulling you up. If you use your hands behind your head, you are pulling yourself up.
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Cardio exercises burn the most fat and will probably put the least amount of stress on you stomach. Try what feels the most comfortable to you. You could try walking, jogging, or biking.
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I know it sucks, but it's true.  You can't spot reduce.  The first place your body puts weight on is the first place it will come off.  It may be that the place your body will loose fat last is your back.  Mine is my inner thighs. :(\n\nYour diet is a big part of loosing that excess body weight.  About 80% of weight loss is your diet, only about 20% is exercise; however, there are some exercises you can do to get that back into shape.\n\n1- Push-ups.  Make sure you're pulling your belly to your back while you do it.  This is a great overall workout and it will get the area your talking about\n\n2- Lat Pulls.  Any kind of lat pull down.\n\n3- Rows.  The rowing motion is awesome for your back.  On a weight machine or on a rowing machine, this will get it tougher.\n\nTry these.  And watch that diet!
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Forget spinning indoors.  Get a road bike and get a real workout!!! :-)
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I have found that if you cut out your sugar in-take and eat more fruits to curb the sweet tooth while doing crunches and Pilate's. The Pilate's really, really works your glutes. It teaches you to breath while exercising. As for your behind, get down with the squats and lunges. I use to hate to these but, I look at my legs and I feel blessed by doing them. Even while your doing all of these every other day, walk every day. Walking is the very best exercise to do. I walk about three miles a day and I do the squats and lunges on Mon, Wed, Fri and try to do the Pilate's every day. Alternate mornings and evenings so that you won't get burnt out. Also this isn't so much about getting into a bikini for the summer but think of it as an alternative to a healthier, better you! I have lost so far over 37 lbs. I want to keep going with this because I feel really good in the morning when I come to work.  God bless and good luck.