Exercise: Loose the Love Handles and Feel the Love

Hi Everybody!!! HAPY NEW YEAR!!
I hope you all had a great New Years and are looking forward to 2012. The thing I like best about New Year is its a clean start, a new beginning to welcome change and to better ourselves and our lives. I wish every single one of you the very best of luck and I know when someone puts their mind to something and really commits to it, they can achieve whatever! Make this be your year to achieve whatever your hearts desire!

We are starting this year with a workout that focuses on working those obliques (the sides of your waist) with bursts of cardio to ensure we loose that fat on top of the nice muscles under there. It totally kicked my butt!! The cardio parts in here almost killed me, I had to take several "pause button" breaks but I finished. This is an interval train and use your own interval timer or use one online. I use http://www.beach-fitness.com/tabata/. Set the rounds for 36 (or 22 if you dont have the time to do 36 minutes). You will do 55 seconds on and 5 seconds off. There are 12 exercises total and you will repeat them 3 times (2 times if you choose to do the 22 seconds, but try-whats another 12 minutes when you went this far!)
Always warm up first by running in place, jumping jacks or anything that will increase your body temp a few degrees safely. Always remember to hold your core very tight!! It is up to you how hard you hold those abs. If you hold them like there is a corset around them, you will have a great, safe and efficient workout for your core. Good luck people and feel the love ;-)

See video for instructions and modifications:
55 seconds each exercise...repeat, repeat, repeat!

Side Crunch (left side)
Lunge with Chop
Side Crunch (right side)
Lunge with Chop

Kneeling Side Lean (left side)
Side Burpees
Kneeling Side Lean (right side)
Side Burpees

Standing Oblique Lean (left side)
Pendulum
Side Oblique Lean (right side)
Pendulum

Best Wishes!!!