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Arm Toning Exercises

guss

guss

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A lot of women and men have been asking me about what exercises best help tone the arms, especially targeting the under arms and the biceps, so guess what? This article is going to discuss not only the exercises but the entire strategy for toning up your arms.

Before I get into the exercises one of the most important points to touch upon is that spot reducing with exercises is pretty much ineffective. You can’t tell your body to specifically tone and reduce fat in a certain area, although trust me I would be helping my clients with targeting the lower abs, thighs and arms almost 90% of the time.

That being said weight training does help with generation of muscle and in turn some reduction of fat in most areas of our body. For men this is much easier to accomplish especially since most are not worried about gaining too much size in their arms. Women, on the other hand are a little more concerned about gaining too much muscle and size as they generally are trying to avoid the bulky look.

But the most important thing to tie this all together is the diet component. You aren’t going to lose fat by exercise alone, the diet is more than half the battle and unfortunately we can’t tell our body to target a specific area. What we can do is reduce our overall body fat by eating leaner and if in the case of women who don’t want to gain size they can really keep the calories low.

The thing is that it’s not that easy to pack on muscle as much as most people think it can. Just cause you lift weights doesn’t mean you will become huge and bulky, you also have to be eating tons of calories (especially protein) to help achieve this. So the easy suggestion is for men focus on the protein (definitely whey protein powder) and for the women, focus on smaller meals but more frequent spread throughout the day to keep your metabolism high.

One other way to help reduce the amount of muscle you put on is by doing extra cardio. Cardio has the great ability to keep your body burning calories especially when done at an intense level, hence why I recommend high intensity interval training for pretty much all my clients when fat loss is an objective.

But enough of that, let’s get into the arm toning exercises.

Try one of these twice a week as part of your workout routine and remember for toning we want to go higher reps in the 12-14 area and high sets at about 4 sets for each exercise.

Arm Toning Exercises #1
Biceps Curl with dumbbells
Rope pushdown with pulley
Cable hammer curl
Tricep extensions with dumbbells
Incline dumbbell curls
Push ups with hands close together

Arm Toning Exercises #2
Biceps Curl with barbell
Triceps extension with ezbar aka skullcrushers
Hammer curl cross body
Cable one arm pull down
Bicep curls facing bench
Dips

Recommended Supplements for Arm Toning Exercises

Getting lean toned arms takes a great diet, and supplementation can definitely help speed up your progress. Try these most recommended supplements:

Whey Protein for Lean Muscle Production (Try: Optimum Whey Protein Cookies & Cream)
Thermogenic Fat Burner (Try: OxyElite Pro)
Fish Oil Omega’s for Optimal Energy & Focus (Try: Nordic Naturals Ultimate Omega)
Sports Drink for Motivation & Maximum Force (Try: USPlabs Jacked)
BCAA’s for Muscle Recovery (Try: Higher Power BCAA)

Arm Toning Exercises
Remember you can’t spot reduce but you can be smart and pay more attention to your diet and the amount of cardio you do in order to bring focus to toning and definition. Aim for the high reps and short rest periods (less than 30 seconds) between sets. You can do these exercises in any order and you can even mix and match between the two workouts, just have fun with it all and the results will come.

Sam Omidi
 
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hugerobb

hugerobb

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interesting info for the newbies
 
jdjack

jdjack

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Sep 22, 2010
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"Toning exercises". There really is no such thing. Do things like vascularity pop out more when ya got a pump in a certain area, yes. But you can do 10,000 crunches and that's it, and you won't have a 6-pack with flabby arms.
 
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