I personally hate love handles, I don’t know who gave them their name, but who ever it was he or she was crazy. Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against fat people, I actually like thick women, but I just hate when they start to jump out of their pants. This goes for men too; I just think that when flesh starts to hang from our clothes, sexy really doesn’t describe us at that point, am I right? If you think I’m wrong stop wasting your time and go read something else. For those of you who share my opinion I invite you to learn how I got rid of most of my “love handles”.

My apparent discontent with my body hanging out of my pants lead me to research on how to target this specific area in my body. I read from a couple of very good and trust worthy experts that spot reduction was not possible; fat is lost all over at the same time and not just in one region. This was true until very recently, but new research has shown that certain hormones help use store fat in specific places. In our case, insulin is the bad guy responsible for melting appearance (some guys look like Frosty The Snowman on the fourth of July). Insulin is a very important hormone that is vital for our survival, the problem is that our modern lifestyle has turned it against us. All the processed sugar and carbohydrates in our food cause our insulin levels to go crazy and disable our fat reducing mechanisms.

How to Fight Insulin?

Insulin can be fought with what is know as IGF-1 (Insulin Growth Factor one). IGF-1 can be easily produced through training, but not just any type of training. As you know different types of training produce different types of adaptations in our body, thanks to the different physiological responses that it produces. In order to lose our “love handles” we need to use what my friend John Romaniello calls Dynamic Training. This type of training is based on compound exercise, that is two or more exercises blended into one. Let me give you an example: The squat and press. In this exercise you hold a couple of dumbbells above your shoulders with your elbows bent; you squat down, and when you are pushing up, you lift the dumbbells like in a military press.

These type of exercises involve more muscles and help you burn more calories while helping you produce IGF-1.

Use your imagination to come up with more exercises. Here are a few more:

1. Burpees.

2. Turkish get up.

3. Lunge and Curl.

Incorporate them into your workout and you will see the results.