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7 Best Exercises To Reduce Saddle Bags Fat

The excess fat around our thighs and hips is called saddlebags. It is very hard to describe how the saddlebags look, and you can simply try to look at the back of your hips. The saddlebags are right under your butt cheeks, right below the hips. That is where mostly they are accumulated.

To eliminate fat from this are a of your body can be quite challenging and hard, it requires a lot of hard work, and it takes some time for the results to be visible. Make sure you make some changes in your diet and do these exercises below, if you want to see results quickly!

1. Bent-Knee Reverse Hip Raise

On a Roman chair, lay down with your face down, or if you don’t have a roman chair, a sturdy bench is okay, but make sure your hips and legs are hanging off of it, and you can move them completely free.

Hug the chair or the bench with your hands, in order to be more stable. Then contract your butt, brace every core muscle in order to lift your legs and hips off the ground and keep them parallel to the ground.

Make sure your neck and head are aligned, hold that position for a few seconds and then you should bend your knees and straighten them again.

With that move you’ve made one rep. Do a couple of sets of 20 repetitions. Between the sets you should take half a minute breaks.

2. Side Saddle Leg Lifts

Lay down on the floor, on your side, make sure your legs are extended and flex both of your feet. The top hand should be placed in front of your abdomen. While the other hand should be placed underneath your head, to support yourself. During this time the bottom leg should stay on the ground.

Then raise your top leg by pushing through your hips, it should go about 8 inches in the air. Then make very small pulses upwards, you should be able to do about 20. Then when you reach the highest point with your leg, make small circles in the air, also you should be able to do about 20.

Then don’t lower the leg, keep it in that position just bend your knee and straighten it again. Do 20 reps of this movement, don’t lower the leg keep it at the same level, push through your heels. Then you may finish the exercise by lowering and lifting the entire leg, lower it t the ground and then lift it all the way up to the ceiling, do 20 reps of this motion as well.

3. Single-Leg Hip Raise

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