Exercises to tone around the waist after losing weight are designed to help you reduce excess love handles and stomach fat that remain after extensive weight loss. Toning exercises are designed to strengthen your core muscles, tightening your upper and lower abdominal muscles as well as your hips and waist.
V Sit Pull Back
This abdominal exercise is designed to tighten your abdominal muscles as well as your waist. Sit down on the ground with your knees bent and feet flat on the floor. With your back at a 45 degree angle off the ground, extend both of your arms out in front of you. Lower your back down toward the ground while rotating your torso to the right side. As you rotate, bring your right elbow down and tap the ground. Return back to your original pose and repeat with your left elbow. Alternate between the two until fatigued.
Stability Ball Knee Tuck
This abdominal exercise will help tone your waist. Grab an exercise ball and place it in the middle of a room. Lie down flat on the ball with your hands on the ground in front of the ball for support. From here, roll forward on the ball until your knees are on the top of the ball and your body is parallel with the floor. Roll it forward some more, bending at the knees while moving your hips up toward the sky; your upper torso should end up at a 45-degree angle with the floor and you should be in a kneeling position, with your feet on the ball. Roll back and forth between this pose and the prior pose until fatigued.
Hip Swivel
This hip exercise is designed to tone your waist as well as your hips. Stand up straight with your knees slightly bent and both hands on your hips. From this position, rotate your hips in a clockwise circle, keeping the speed of the rotation slow and controlled. After each rotation, increase the size of the circles you are making with your hips as well as the speed of the rotations. Perform 10 to 15 rotations in both clockwise and counterclockwise motions before stopping.
Side Bends
Side bends are designed to strengthen your abdominal muscles. Stand up straight with your knees slightly bent and both arms at your sides. Bend your upper body from the lower torso to your left side, pushing it as far as you can and holding it for several seconds. Slowly return to your upright position before performing the same bend to your right side. Rotate between left and right bends until you are fatigued.
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