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Hey everybody, Kevin Weiss from bodyperformance.net brought to you today by Rip Toned Fitness products. And today, we want to talk about love handles. And in particular, what you can do to get rid of them or lessen them and what causes them. And these are actually very simple answers, very basic answers. There's a lot of more complicated attacks on these or ways to deal with them, like magic creams and special exercises and stuff like this. And these are all based around targeting that essential area. So spot reducing is one term that's used often. And that's especially when you're talking about the abs, talking about men's lower backs and their sides of their torso, which is commonly referred to as the love handles. These have been marketed over many years to attack this area in isolation. And the simple fact of the matter is it's almost impossible to reduce body fat in specific areas without reducing body fat in other areas.
Now that being said, men will lose body fat faster in certain regions, their arms, their legs, for example, and then it's going to take longer and slower to reduce in other areas mostly in their torso, in their stomach, in their lower backs, in the sides where the love handles are and stuff like that. So in general, men tend to lose it a lot slower there, whereas women tend to lose it a lot slower in their lower bodies. So whether we're talking about reducing love handles, or reducing body fat in any other region of the body, what we need to focus on is an overall calorie deficit so that the body has to tap into these fat reserves. Now that we know that, it's also a very important to know that the body is going to tap into fat resources in certain parts of the body first, and it's going to tap into the hard to reach regions or the stubborn regions later on.
So when I was competing in bodybuilding for many years, I got to know very quickly that that area in your stomach, they are in your lower back, your sides, the love handle area is going to be one of the last areas that even begins to come down. And to get into competition shape, those areas are going to be the last ones to come in. You'll be leaning your arms, your chest, your legs, and the love handle area is going to still have a fair amount of body fat in it or on it. So what I found while I was doing that was because I would quite often measure my body fat with different gimmicks.
Or not gimmicks, but gadgets and stuff like that. And a lot of them were not that effective as far as giving you an accurate body fat percentage number, but the calipers where you actually are pinching the skin, something like this, it's a caliper comes on, it pinches the skin and it measures the thickness of that skin. So when you have something like your back of your hand, there's hardly any body fat there, that gives you a pretty good idea. That millimeter measurement, that pinch measurement is going to be much lower and somewhere where you have more body fat, like on your love handle area, well, that thickness is going to be much higher. So instead of looking at actual body fat percentages or knowing that you're going to know what that body fat percentage is and being able to say I'm 5%, 8%, 3%, whatever, I didn't really care about that number. And I just looked at what the actual caliper number was.
Because they're coming to this percentage number by taking pinches from several places in the body. And then this is put into a calculation which spits out a number that is your supposedly body fat percentage. And I just found that that was not overly helpful and probably not very accurate either. But I knew that if I took my measurements, my pinches, I called them from several different areas, I could watch certain areas come down and see that number come down and other areas would not move until these first areas, the areas that would get leaner easier would come down.
So as a general rule, I found that I didn't really start losing much in my stomach area. A little bit, but not much until areas like my tricep and chest area and stuff like that were even below a 10 millimeter reading. And that was just the reading that I was getting, because even with the pinch tests that you can get some fluctuation just from somebody else doing it, like someone could do a pinch test on me and get 10% or 12% or 15%, and I could do a pinch test and get 8% or 20%.
So that point part was very important that you did it consistently, but I was always doing it to myself. So I was reasonably confident that I was making consistent measurements. So getting back to my point was I'd be down to 10 millimeter readings in my chest and arms, and my love handles and right by my belly button while they would still be maybe double that or even more...
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