Lose your love handles with side dumbbell bends

Step 1: Stand up straight with your chest out, while holding a dumbbell in your left hand, while you keep your right hand on your waist. Make sure you keep your chest our and your feet at shoulder width. This will be your starting position.

Step 2: Keeping your chest out and back straight, bend down at your waist to the right while keeping your upper body stationary. Hold the bent position for a moment and then come back to the starting position.

Step 3: Now bend to the right instead of the left following the same movement. Follow the same routine.

Step 4: Do at least 20 reps and then switch hands and do the same with the right hand.

Tips: A lot of trainers recommend doing this exercise with a dumbbell in each arm but this can be counterproductive because the other dumbbell works as a counterweight and lowers the efficiency of the bend. Others argue that using two dumbbells is good, since it allows you to maintain better form while doing this exercise.  It depends really on which version you’re more comfortable with. Also, don’t use extremely heavy weights because this could hurt your spine.

Also try these other abs exercises:

• Lose your love handles with side dumbbell bends
• Exercise for flat abs: Wood chop
• Strengthen your abdominal muscles with the old school sit-up
• Exercises for flat abs: Leg raise
• Abdominal crunches for losing belly fat — Learn the right way to do them

You could also try out these exercises for specific body parts: 

• Exercises for shoulders
• Exercises for abs
• Exercises for arms
• Exercises for legs

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