Arm Muscle Toning

Toning Your Arm Muscles

Here are supplemental toning exercises for arms. Use them to vary your planning and adjust as needed for intensity, repetition, etc. to fit your program.

Flabby Upper Arms - Three helpful exercises here. Do about a dozen pushups, your favorite style. Do some reverse crab walking with about a dozen reverse push-ups. And do some shadowboxing with light weights in hand. Punch 20 each of crossovers, undercuts and hooks.

Flabby Lower Arms - Couple things to help here. Dips or sit on the edge of hard surface, palms on each side of your hips, fingers hanging over the edge. Walk your feet out some getting your hips off the bed. Bend your knees & lower yourself until your elbows are at 90 degrees with upper arms parallel to the floor. Rise up and lower yourself with your arms about a dozen times. Repeat two sets. Experienced people stretch legs out straight.

Other help is called kickbacks. With small weight, reach over at the waist with hand on a surface with back flat. With weight in other hand, bring bent elbow up to side for start position. With elbow at side, reach back until elbow is straight, then lower and repeat a dozen times. Repeat two more sets. Experienced people may increase weights.

Carpal Tunnel - Use light weights or wrist weights with resistance work to help wrists, but don't grip them too tightly. Other exercises that work well are swimming, gently squeezing a rubber ball, wrist curls, placing wrist rests on keyboards.