Quick question: are you doing arm exercises for women the easy way or the effective way? If you’re going the easy route, you’re wasting time. Walking into a gym and going through the motions will get you nowhere.
But I’m going to make sure you don’t get stuck with the ineffective way. I am going to make sure you don’t fall into a flabby arm rut. Because nothing is more demoralizing.
So how do you take arm exercises for women to the next level? With intensity, that’s how you take you arm toning to the next level. This may sound overused, but perhaps you don’t know how to increase the intensity of your arm workouts. And this is where most women fail.
Thus, here are 4 techniques for taking arm exercises for women to the next level:
1. Exhaustion sets: Mostly a finishing tactic, these are done as the last set for a given exercise. The concept is simple: you use a light weight and keep going until your arms can’t go anymore. You should be able to do at least 20 repetitions with your selected weight. Exhaustion sets are great for targeting your endurance muscle fibers and for draining your arms of any remaining carbohydrate stores (glycogen).
2. Super-setting: Perhaps one of the most intense strategies, super-setting involves doing one arm exercise immediately after another without any rest whatsoever. What you get for all this effort: sexy arms in no time.
3. Bicep curling with back support: The biggest issue when doing any type of standing bicep curl is maintaining good form when going heavy. The quick fix is to lean against a back support like a wall. You’ll notice that the curling will be that much harder, but that much more effective also.
4. Squeezing at the end of each triceps exercise: It will burn and your arm fat will scream for help. This is a great tool for directly targeting the area where arm fat resides-the triceps. The key here is to pause and really squeeze at the end of the exercise. Again, expect to use lighter weights when using this technique.
So are you ready to do arm exercises for women the intense way? Look, it may seem hard at first, but just like everything else in life, you will acclimatize and adapt to this new level of intensity.
Just make sure you start implementing these techniques now and not later. Because later usually never comes!
Katherine Crawford MS, a Harvard exercise physiologist and recent flabby arms sufferer, instructs women on how to get thin arms rapidly. Discover how to get sexy and toned arms by visiting her website about how to get slim arms once and for all right now!
