toning upper arms- need help please! - 3 Fat Chicks on a Diet Weight Loss Community

clarelou · 03-02-2009, 08:55 AM

hello everyone

i need some advice on best exercise to tone my upper arms as they are majorly flabby. Im not expecting miracles but would like to see a difference by may??? Im going to chester races and hoping to wear a strapless dress.

so currently iv just been using the cross trainer i have at home for exericse. i do have some dumbells which i use occaionally but unsure of what i should be doing with them, how many reps etc. (please note i no longer have a gym subscription as i cant afford it no longer)

so any advice is much welcomed. xx

nelie · 03-02-2009, 09:17 AM

Well to improve the look of your arms, you need to do a couple things, burn off the fat and work the muscles.

In order to work the muscles, I'd recommend at looking at pushups, the 100 day pushup challenge is a good place to look for that: http://hundredpushups.com/

You can also do tricep pushups (hands closer together) and tricep dips
http://exercise.about.com/b/2004/08/...ricep-dips.htm

To burn off the fat, I'd look at an all over body workout along with cardio.
I highly recommend reading through stumptuous:
http://www.stumptuous.com/category/training

I also think about.com has some useful information on beginner strength training workouts:
http://exercise.about.com/od/beginne..._Beginners.htm

lixximajig · 03-02-2009, 10:42 AM

Wow nelie, very informative! Thank you!

ddc · 03-02-2009, 09:24 PM

Here's a short demonstration video by Jillian Michaels for arms:

http://www.hulu.com/watch/58188/jill...ous#s-p2-st-i0

ladyrider72472 · 03-02-2009, 10:36 PM

clarelou,

I am with ya! I am getting married in Vegas in May and I need to get rid of the flabby jobbies. I have not used weights until this point in my weight loss b/c I did not want to "bulk up". That is the last thing I need to do at almost 6foot tall

Tammy

nelie · 03-02-2009, 10:44 PM

Tammy,

As a woman, weights won't bulk you up but they will help give you shapely arms and body but you still need to lose the fat to help see the shape that muscle will help give you. Don't be afraid of the weights

clarelou · 03-06-2009, 01:44 PM

thanks for advice and suggestions. nelie them links are great. im well into them tricep dips now! working on the push ups.
ddc unfortunatly when i clicked on the link it said the video could only be streamed in the US.
Tammy, you must be very excited about your wedding..its getting close. best wishes for a lovely wedding x

so thanks agian and heres to more shapley arms

saef · 03-06-2009, 01:52 PM

THANKS!!! for Jillian's video. I've been looking for new dumbbell exercises, to mix up my routine. This was wonderful.

Clarelou, thanks so much for posting this. I have decent biceps but terrible flappy upper arms. I suspect much of it is loose skin, but I want to do what I can for what's underneath it.