Working the sides

[becker]

Hey guys, what are some exercises to tone up the sides of your body (love handle area, and sides of your ribs)?

 

[mateo_g]

You can work these muscle groups with sidebridges, drawbridges and such. These are the musles that connect to your hips and the lower part of your abs. Sidebends are hard to describe, so follow the link later on. Drawbridges are laying down flat on a bench or floor and litfing your legs from prone to straight up (hence the name of the excercise). Add weight once it becomes easy.

HOWEVER

Working these muscles will not get them to show unless you have a low bodyfat %. So if you are doing bulking, don't try to get 6 pack abs to peek through, just do these exercises anyway, so that when you start cutting, the muscles will be toned.

Check out this site for some more exercises.Midsection Workouts

 

[mateo_g]

As for the sides of your ribs, do lat pulldowns, seated rows, bent over rows, and most any back exercise.

 

[Rico S]

Originally posted by becker
Hey guys, what are some exercises to tone up the sides of your body (love handle area, and sides of your ribs)?

There are none. Lose the fat, it works wonders.

 

[Rico S]

Originally posted by mateo_g
You can work these muscle groups with sidebridges, drawbridges and such. These are the musles that connect to your hips and the lower part of your abs. Sidebends are hard to describe, so follow the link later on. Drawbridges are laying down flat on a bench or floor and litfing your legs from prone to straight up (hence the name of the excercise). Add weight once it becomes easy.

HOWEVER

Working these muscles will not get them to show unless you have a low bodyfat %. So if you are doing bulking, don't try to get 6 pack abs to peek through, just do these exercises anyway, so that when you start cutting, the muscles will be toned.

Check out this site for some more exercises.Midsection Workouts

They are called the obliques buddy. They contract with the abs. Deadlifts and squats hit them quite well. There's no need to do all these crunch variations.

 

[Rico S]

Originally posted by mateo_g
As for the sides of your ribs, do lat pulldowns, seated rows, bent over rows, and most any back exercise.

Do me a favor and stop giving advice about bodybuilding. Where the fukk do you come up with this ****?

If by the sides of your ribs you mean obliques then they are worked during abdominal exercises. You aren't exactly directly hitting the abs when you are rowing.

 

[California Love]

Originally posted by mateo_g
As for the sides of your ribs, do lat pulldowns, seated rows, bent over rows, and most any back exercise.

you're referring to the serratus and they are worked by chinups.

 

[Metaphor]

They might be indirectly involved with chinups, like forearms, but a much better exercise for the serratus is the often ignored pullover.

 

[Tareef]

The ribs are surrounded by the seratus anterior muscles. Pull overs work this area, as well as pecs and lats to a lessor extent.

The obliques can be hit through side bends.

Changing up your rountine every once in a while is good.

Check out the sticky above for toning

 

[Mikelo2k]

Info

Indeed, these 'love handles' that you guys seem to be referring to are actually the 'obliques'.

Info on Obliques

Mainly Side Bends \ Side Crunches \ Crunch Twists work the obliques well, and target them mainly.

Check out this url for oblique exercises:
Oblique Exercises


Good luck!


Mikelo2k