I personally hate love handles, I don’t know who gave them their name, but whoever it was, they were crazy. Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against fat people, I actually like thick women, but I hate it when they start jumping out of their pants. This also applies to men; I just think that when meat starts to hang on our clothes, sexy doesn’t really describe us at that point, does it? If you think I’m wrong, stop wasting 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 “tires”.

My apparent discontent with my body hanging out of my pants led me to investigate how to focus on this specific area of ​​my body. I read from a couple of very good and trustworthy experts that spot reduction was not possible; fat is lost everywhere 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 store fat in specific places. In our case, insulin is the bad guy responsible for the melted look (some guys look like Frosty The Snowman on the 4th 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 carbs in our food send our insulin levels into overdrive and disable our fat-reducing mechanisms.

How to fight insulin?

Insulin can be fought with what is known 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 it produces. To lose our “love tires” 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 combined into one. Let me give you an example: The squat and the press. In this exercise, you hold a pair of dumbbells above your shoulders with your elbows bent; you squat down, and when you push up, you lift the dumbbells up like in a military press.

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

Use your imagination to think of more exercises. Here are a few more:

1. Burpees.

2.Turkish uprising.

3. Stride and Curl.

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