Tone Your Saggy Arms

Arms Always Draw Attention To Your Overall Physique - toning your arms should not be neglected.

Many people who suffer with flabby arms may find it best to tone the arm muscles rather than cardio-vascular exercise to try losing weight from such difficult areas. When people try to lose weight from the arms or problem areas they often find they lose it from other areas first, sometimes even losing weight from places they don't want to lose it!

Losing weight from difficult areas such as the arms may require the eventual loss of a high percentage of overall body fat. This is because the body draws energy from all over rather than from one specific place, even if there is regularly exercise for the arms it will often tone them up before fat will reduce in the arms.

Difficulty in losing weight in the arms or other problem areas is caused by the result of our genetics, the number of fat cells present in various places around the body. We all have different numbers and places where the body tends to deposit more fat cells, this is often the place where we find it annoyingly hard to lose fat from.

If there are a large number of fat cells around the arms, losing fat around the arms will often take longer because there is much more fat to shift than in other areas. The best way would be to tone the arms while at the same time losing weight with basic aerobic (cardio-vascular) exercise. The best exercise for toning the arms are single-joint movements. Examples are curls and tricep kick-backs. These exercises place direct stress on the bicep and tricep muscles of the arm causing them to firm up much more quickly. In fact the triceps muscle at the back of the arm make up two-thirds of arm size so it would probably be best to work more at toning the tricep muscle of the arm.

Top 5 Exercises to Tone Saggy Arms

Combat your arm sag with these five targeted exercises. These will help to tone and shape your upper arm area for a fitter and stronger appearance

Tennis

This is a great sport to help tone those arms and combat any army sag. A lot of energy goes into getting that damn ball over the net, so this sport will work to increase your upper body strength even combining your arm workout with a bit of a run around.

Weights

There are many weights exercises to do, but a good one to try is kickbacks. To do a kickback, simply hold your weights in your hands and bend over parallel to the floor, abs engaged. Bend your elbows and pull them even with your back. Straighten your arms behind you squeezing your triceps and lower back down.

Surfing

This requires a lot of upper body strength so consequently it is a good way to improve arms and get rid of that flab. Between paddling out on your board, paddling after your board and having to push yourself up when you finally do catch a wave, this is one mega (and fun) workout.

Close Grip Push Ups

While it’s not the most glamorous of exercises, the push up works to target your triceps where you get the most undesirable arm flab. Simply place your palms on the floor about shoulder distance apart, push your body up with your toes (or knees) keeping as straight as possible. Lower your body back down so you almost touch the ground and repeat keeping your movements slow and steady.

Tricep Dips

Sit on a ball or bench (a chair will do) with your hands right next to your hips. Bring your hips in front of the bench and bring your elbows to no lower than 90 degrees. Push back up without locking your elbows. For beginners, repeat 12-16 times.