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Title: love handles
Post by: smaul on December 12, 2007, 01:47:07 AM: How to get rid of these if they don't seem to be fat? I do deadlift, but definitely not enough to give me a thick waist. I have visible abs but the love handles are still too large. is this genetic? Anything specific that can be done about it?
Title: Re: love handles
Post by: Quickerblade on December 12, 2007, 02:40:59 AM: hard to tell without pics, you could have a wide waist?
Title: Re: love handles
Post by: wes on December 12, 2007, 03:11:18 AM: diet and cardio.
Title: Re: love handles
Post by: smaul on December 12, 2007, 03:19:10 AM: Quote from: wes on December 12, 2007, 03:11:18 AM
diet and cardio.

When I dieted recently I stopped because I was starting to look to skinny everywhere else. Maybe I dieted too extreme? The love handles didn't go.
Title: Re: love handles
Post by: LatsMcGee on December 12, 2007, 03:37:21 AM: Genetics are a bitch. Are you training obliques? If so stop. Are you training your abs? If so stop.
Title: Re: love handles
Post by: smaul on December 12, 2007, 03:45:20 AM: Quote from: LatsMcGee on December 12, 2007, 03:37:21 AM
Genetics are a bitch. Are you training obliques? If so stop. Are you training your abs? If so stop.

I don't train obliques, and I train abs three times a week, three sets each day. With varied exercises, so you reccon I should cut these out?

I've added a pic from when I'd dieted down. Fat or muscle?
Title: Re: love handles
Post by: LatsMcGee on December 12, 2007, 04:24:09 AM: Quote from: smaul on December 12, 2007, 03:45:20 AM
I don't train obliques, and I train abs three times a week, three sets each day. With varied exercises, so you reccon I should cut these out?

I've added a pic from when I'd dieted down. Fat or muscle?

You are still carrying some fat man. But the easy fix to your problem is to layoff the ab work, continue cutting, and work on broadening your shoulders more.
Title: Re: love handles
Post by: smaul on December 12, 2007, 07:44:37 AM: Quote from: LatsMcGee on December 12, 2007, 04:24:09 AM
You are still carrying some fat man. But the easy fix to your problem is to layoff the ab work, continue cutting, and work on broadening your shoulders more.

I'm paranoid about completly cutting out ab work. Will drop it some. Shoulders have always been an issue, suffer from a bum-right shoulder. Not that that should be an excuse!
Title: Re: love handles
Post by: lilwoday09smb on December 12, 2007, 10:06:59 AM: I HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM, EVEN WHEN I WOULD CUT WEIGHT FOR WRESTLING I STILL HAD LARGE LOVE HANDLES/OBLIQUES. INSTEAD I FOCUSED ON BACK WIDTH, AND LAT RAISES. THIS CHANGED MY LOOK ALOT. I WOULD SAY FOCUS YOUR WORKOUTS FOR THE NEXT 16 WEEKS ON ADDING SHOULDER WIDTH. LOTS OF LAT RAISES, REAR LAT RAISES, AND PRESSES. AS WELL AS SOME BACK WIDTH. CHINS, PULL UPS, ROWS, AND THEY WONT BE AS VISIBLE. ALSO YOU ARE STILL FAIRLY SMALL FOR BODYBUILING. 10 POUNDS OF MUSCLE WOULD CUT THAT DRAMATICALY.
Title: Re: love handles
Post by: cht868 on December 24, 2007, 12:42:01 PM: try widening ur shouldrs and back, that will make ur waist look smaller