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Show off your New Beautiful Arms from Exercise Videos

It’s summer and it’s time to break out the summer gear – and after putting on your favorite tank top you decided you were ready for sleek, sexy arms, well, its time to your favorite exercise video and dust off those hand weights and get moving. Yes, you can have beautifully toned arms without looking bulky! Yes, you can create definition in your shoulders and still look feminine. And yes, it only takes a few minutes each day to notice a change in the shape of your arms and shoulders.

Just the Facts!

The three primary muscles to target to tone up your arms would be your biceps (the front of the upper arm), the triceps (the back of the upper arm) and the deltoids (your shoulders). There are endless ways to train this area and numerous types of equipment. You can use hand weights, or resistance bands or even nothing but your own body weight – yep! There are tons of things to do with absolutely no equipment at all. You know what that means? That means that is one less excuse not to do it!

How much weight should I use? And how many should I do?

Great question! Those questions go hand-in-hand. When trying to tone up and add definition to your already beautiful body, remember that you do need to put you’re body under some “stress” in order to help it change. In other words, you need to create what we call “overload”, which is were the muscle has to work a little harder than it is used to in order for it to get stronger.

Play around with the size weights you use when you first get started, you will be surprised that you can probably do more than you think you can. As a rule of thumb, you should do two or three sets of exercises for each muscle group you are working. And each set should have between 10-15 repetitions. And this is important: If you are doing a set of ten, you should feel fatigue by the sixth repetition, by the eighth you should feel significant discomfort, and the last two should be challenging. If you are going for longer sets, adjust accordingly but keep the intensity to the same basic scale. And if you are just getting into it, you may consider using workout videos to give you a well-balanced workout that works all your muscles equally. But never forget this one thing: form is more important than intensity. Never sacrifice your technique for a higher weight.

Below are a few simple exercises you can start with, but don’t forget, there are literally hundreds of things you can do to train the arms and shoulders! In fact, a simple push up uses all the muscles of your upper body and even works your abs a bit!

Bicep Curls

You can either sit or stand, but make sure you’re back in straight and your shoulders are back and relaxed. Gently grip your weights and keep your upper arms against your sides. Bend your arms (keeping your elbows in your waist line) and bring the weights above the elbows about 3-6 inches. Lower slowly, again only moving the lower arm. The upper arms should not move at all. Use control and move slowly.

Tricep Dips

Sit on the edge of a bench and hold onto the edge. Bend your elbows and lower your butt down toward the ground in front of the bench. Then, straighten out your arms in order to raise yourself back up again. These are tough! But they work. And you don’t need anything except a kitchen char.

Lateral Raise

Stand with your arms at your sides with your elbows slightly bent. Holding your hand weights gently in each hand. Slowly raise both weights at the same time until your arms are straight out at your shoulder level. Next, slowly lower your arms to your sides.

There you have it – some simple and fast ways to get beautiful arms and shoulders with exercise videos. Don’t forget, “The slower the motion, the faster the result!” So, take you’re time and do not rush the movement. Now you are all set to start working out and becoming successful for beautiful arms and shoulders – start today and enjoy sleek, sexy arms and shoulders.

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