Love handles are a slang term for the fatty area on the sides of your waist. The area is technically called your oblique muscles. If you do not regularly participate in fitness exercise, then you will likely have excess fat hanging over the sides of your hips. In order to have a slimmer physique and hour-glass shape, you need to slim down your love handles through exercise.
Stability-Ball Twist
For the stability-ball twist, lie with your back on the stability ball and your feet flat on the floor and bent at the knees. Hold a medicine ball with both hands and arms extended. With your back and rear-end against the stability ball, rotate your upper body slowly to the left while hold on to the medicine ball. Turn at the waist and keep you body on the stability ball and feet flat on the floor. Slowly rotate back to the center and then repeat the exercise to the right side. Continue the exercise, alternating sides, for several repetitions.
Roll and Curl
Start this exercise by putting your body in a push-up style position with your feet and lower legs resting on a stability ball. Keep your hands flat on the floor, should-width apart, facing down. Bend you knees so that you are slowly rolling the stability ball inward toward the right side of your chest. Focus on keeping your mid-section muscles tight. Then slowly roll your legs back out to the starting position and repeat the exercise again to your left side. Repeat the process for several repetitions.
Medicine-Ball Twist
Begin the medicine-ball twist lying on your back on the floor while holding a medicine ball over your head with both hands. Your knees should be bent at 90 degrees with your feet flat on the floor. Slowly crunch your body upward, bending at the hips. Twist your shoulders to the right as you bring the medicine ball to the right of your thighs. Simultaneously lift your knees slowly upward and toward the left side of your body. Then slowly return to the starting position and repeat the exercise again in the opposite directions. Perform this exercise several times.
Lying Side Bends
Position yourself for this exercise by lying on the floor on your side with your knees together and slightly bent. Place you top hand's fingers on the side of your head. Slowly raise your head and shoulders off the floor, bending at your waist. Focus on your oblique muscle when lifting. Hold the position briefly as you inhale and slowly return to the starting position. Repeat several more times and then switch sides.
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