A mistake I often made when I started training was to exclude the arms (or rather, not to do specific training for the arms), with the consequence that many people pointed out to me that my arms were not toned compared to the body and shoulders a little sloping. . The problem was that I was afraid that by training the arms, they would swell too much, resulting disproportionate. A typically feminine thing, as I found out. In short, I had the impression that the arm muscles could be too “responsive” to training, and personally I have never loved women with overly muscled arms.
Alas how wrong I was. You can make such a mistake at the age of twenty, after thirty the arms lose tone, particularly in the axillary area, due to a relaxation of the brachial biceps and brachialis, with the beginning of the ” bat wing ” effect . They become sagging. Yeah, good old gravity.
For this reason, dieting is not enough to tone and lose weight in the arms, since the diet alone aims at slimming the whole body, and obviously worsens the flaccidity of the skin. It takes fitness. By training the arms, these after some time are toned, lean, well defined both in the biceps and in the backs, giving you a very graceful shoulder line.
In America, people go crazy for Michelle Obama’s arms.
In short, arms to show, so in the summer it is possible to put on a dress with arms outstretched and wave your hands up as if to greet someone.
I personally do about a quarter of an hour of arm training three or four times a week.
After experiencing many things, I am very happy with this series:
1) Exercises without weights (four or five) but moving the weight of the arms at speed: in this video, from minute 1.28 this girl does some of the exercises that I do . Some are based on rotational movements.
2) Exercises with weights: I use a simple one kilo weight, I have two, one on each arm, and I do a workout very similar to that of this girl, but partial. I don’t do all of them, I do three or four that allow me to train the various muscles, concentrating on doing them slowly and without using momentum to make the exercise easier.
3) A series of twenty pushups to finish. I do them with my legs intertwined and slightly raised (knees on the ground).
Get inspired by the exercises in the video and don’t force things . If you are afraid of using weights, the exercise in the first video and pushups will give you a good eight or ten minute workout.