Summary: Learn how to do a "love handles" oblique abdominal exercise from an expert in this free fitness video on abdominal exercises.
Katie Bowers is a nationally certified fitness instructor and personal trainer with over 8 years experience. Being a dancer and a former gymnast, she knows how important stretching is...read more
"Specifically focusing on the obliques, in the love handles area. So I'm going to go ahead and lay on my side. And this is actually a combination of a stretch and a lift and a crunch. I'm going to reach over, extend my leg out with that good stretch and then crunch, lift it up to your side. Now some people are comfortable doing two legs, I'm going to show this very basic to begin with. I'm just doing one leg so that way you can feel that. Wait until you're comfortable and then if you feel like you got this under control, you can go ahead and bring both legs. Now it may not even look like I'm even lifting my legs up, it looks more like I'm just bending my knees, but I really am. It's pretty much the knee down I'm lifting up and the rest is all your upper body. So my upper body comes up, lift the feet. Do about fifteen of those, same thing on the other side. And when you get to about the fifteenth one, now we say that which we throw in those pulses at the very end to just push yourself even further than you thought you could do. So since I'm on my fifteenth, I'm going to hold it there and go eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, and one. And that's it, that's your obliques."