What are some good arm exercises?
Q: I really hate my arms, and I need to find some good fat burning and toning exercises for my arms.
A: First, about the fat burning. There are no fat burning exercises for arms. When you lose fat, you lose it from all over the body, not isolated areas. Working out a specific muscle group like the arms with work the arm muscles, but exercising the arm muscles won’t cause only the arms to lose fat.
You can’t spot lose weight/fat. You’ll lose it all over your body, but the first place you’ll notice it is that your clothes will start it fit better around your mid-section.
Get some of these: resistance bands from Bodylastics. You can see a set of them below this post. They are tubes with handles, straps and a door anchor and can mimic all those fancy machines in the gym. I got my complete set for under $50. They are also considerably cheaper than weights or a gym, not to mention portable. With the clips on the end, you can easily customize the resistance level as your body adapts. That will prevent you from plateauing and will keep your muscles challenged.
The fastest way to lose fat is to build muscle. (Women won’t bulk up because they don’t have the testosterone that men do.)
You can’t spot lose weight/fat. You’ll lose it all over your body, but the first place you’ll notice it is that your clothes will start it fit better around your mid-section.
Each pound of lean muscle burns about 40-50 calories per day at a resting metabolic rate. Add 10 lbs of muscle and you’ll burn 400-500 calories. Add 20 lbs and you’ll double that. Forget about how much you weigh. The real results are in inches lost.
To build muscle you want to do high intensity resistance training. High intensity does not mean spending hours in a gym getting an intense workout and it doesn’t mean working out really hard so the sweat’s dripping down your fact. It means doing roughly 8-10 reps with a level of resistance that challenges you enough so that it takes a significant amount of effort to complete that last rep. Then rest for about 30 seconds and move to the next muscle group. Workout out every major muscle group like this 3x times a week like Mon, Wed, Fri and then rest two days. You do not have to spend hours in a gym to effectively build muscle and you don’t even need weights.
Here is some more information on where you can get free muscle building workouts. There are new workouts posted Mon-Fri.
