We love those yummy muffins like crazy, but reality hits home the moment we notice muffin tops peeping out of our sexy low jeans or body-con sheaths!
Muffin top is the body slang used for the lower belly/hip fat that gets accumulated right above your butts. If you are struck with love handles and muffin tops and they are keeping those six-packs away from you, then here I have 12 exercises that can shred those muffin tops to pieces!
- Burpees
This exercise turns your body into a fat burning machine, which means that since burpees
is an intense full body workout, it burns a ton of calories. In addition, research shows that
high-intensity workouts like burpees burn up to 50% more fat than moderate exercise.
Stand upright with your feet shoulder-width apart. Squat down and place your hands in
front of your feet. Jump back until your legs are fully extended and your body is in a plank
position. Do a push-up and jump forward, pushing through your heels to return to starting
position. - Jumping Jacks
Stand upright with feet together and hands at sides. Quickly raise your arms above your
head while jumping your feet out to the sides. Immediately reverse the movement to jump
back to the standing position. - Bicycle Crunches
It works almost all of your muscles (shoulder and abdominal, glutes, hip flexors,
quadriceps), heart and lungs in a practical and easy way.
Lie flat on the floor with your lower back pressed against the floor (pull in your navel to
work your deep abdominal as well). Put your hands behind your head, then bring your
knees toward your chest and lift your shoulder blades off the floor, being careful not to pull
on your neck.
- Toe Touches
This exercise fully engages the abdominal wall and helps to tone your abdominal muscles,
reduce your waist and strengthen your core.
Start on your back with legs straight, knees together, toes pointed, arms overhead, fingers
pointed. Lift your shoulders off the floor and use your abdominal muscles to lift your thighs
off the floor, making a V-shape and squeeze your abdomen again, gently coming back
down to the starting position. - Dumbbell Dead-lift
Place a pair of dumbbells on the floor in front of you. Bend your hips and knees and grasp
the dumbbells with an overhand grip. Then, without allowing your lower back to rotate,
stand up on the dumbbells by pushing your hips forward. Return dumbbells to floor. This is
one repetition. - Mountain Climbers
Start with your body in a straight line and your hands slightly wider than shoulder width
apart. Keeping your toes and the balls of your feet touching the floor, bring one knee up
toward the center of your abdomen, then quickly switch legs.
- Crunch
Lie face up on the floor with your knees bent and your feet flat on the floor. Place your
fingers on your forehead. Raise your head and shoulders and squeeze your chest toward
your pelvis. Pause, then slowly return to starting position. - Flutter Kicks
Beginning on your back, with your hands placed under you at the small of your back and
your shoulders off the floor, lift your legs slightly off the floor and then kick your legs up
and down in small, alternating kicks, keeping your toes pointed. Each leg counts as one
repetition. - Dumbbell Side Bends
By adding this workout, you are targeting the external and internal obliques. Strengthening
these muscles can help tighten the entire side ab wall and can also help cinch your waist
and create a curvy body.
