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Have you been searching high and low for the best arm toning exercises? If so, you’ve probably found a lot of answers, too many answers.
There is simply an overabundance of subjective opinions on what works and what doesn’t for arm toning. Some opinions even put you at risk for injury.
How do you figure out what opinions to keep and what opinions to disregard? If the so called gurus can’t agree, what are you to do???
So I have decided to create that resource for you. I will be evaluating as many exercises as I can. Today we will look at hammer curls:
1. Summary. This is an excellent exercise for the forearms that gets overlooked quite often. It’s a slight spin-off from the regular dumbbell curl and works the outer part of your biceps.
2. Technique snap-shot. Grab a dumbbell with each hand, stand upright and keep your palms facing your torso. Then, raise both dumbbells while keeping your palms facing your torso. Lower the dumbbells and repeat.
3. Mistakes with highest frequency. Letting the palms slightly rotate upwards. And allowing the back to round out which puts strain on the spine.
Internet marketers love making money with your desperation for getting rid of flabby arms. One bogus site even goes as far to claim that microbes living in your large intestine are to blame for excess arm fat.
If you search for the term flabby arms, you’ll find even more outrageous sites trying to suck money out of your purse.
If you fall for this misinformation, your purse will get smaller and your arms will get bigger.
Unfortunately, many women don’t know what the right approach is. They usually fall for the internet marketer’s web of promises and end up with smaller bank accounts and bigger arms. Here are 3 delusions you should avoid to help you escape the marketer’s grip:
1. Genetics. While they do influence (to a limited degree) how your arms look, they do NOT dictate how toned your arms can get. A solid combination of specific exercises and nutritional trickery will cause your arms to change at the structural level, regardless of genetics. In other words, you can force your arms to build tight and compact muscle cells, and burn large and jiggly fat cells.
Trying to figure out how to lose arm fat? Are you looking for the best arm exercises for the fastest results?
And it’s not your fault if you are. You see, many of the so called experts can’t come to a common conclusion on the best arm exercises for women.
In response to this issue, I have decided to create a gargantuan review of all the arm exercises I can find. I will take no prisoners.
You may be wondering why I have decided to do this. Well, I don’t want you to have to waste all that time and energy figuring all of this out. So without further delay, here’s my analysis of low pulley curls for women:
1. Summary: Perhaps the best thing about this exercise is that it puts little stress on your joints. But that’s about it. It’s generally done at the end of a workout to completely deplete the biceps of any remaining energy.
2. Summary of technique: Stand straight up, face a pulley and grasp its bar with hands facing up. Tighten your abs for added support. With elbows locked in place, raise the bar to just below shoulder level. Then return it.
When choosing arm exercises for women, you have to include biceps exercises if you want the best looking arms. Many women only do triceps exercises because that’s where the arm flab hangs from.
Choosing the right triceps and biceps exercises can be extremely confusing. Why? Because every fitness buff has a different opinion. Many times, however, these opinions are subjective, not objective. They aren’t based on facts.
As a result, I’ve decided to restore the balance and analyze as many arm exercises for women as I can as often as I can. Hopefully, I’ll save you a lot of time, and most importantly, the possibility of injury.
So without further delay, here’s today’s review of concentration curls:
1. Summary: After Arnold starting doing these in one of his movies, everybody else started doing them. You can see gym rats everywhere performing this exercise until their faces turn red and then blue.
2. Quick-technique snapshot. Grab a dumbbell and sit down. Keep the dumbbell facing forward. Put the elbow of the hand holding said dumbbell against your inner knee. Bend that same elbow and lift the weight up. Slowly return the weight. Repeat.