Strapless Dress Girls

here is the reverse fly...in pilates when you do this you wont have a machine to do it on obviously lol...but you stand and bend your knees and lower the top of your body(leaning over) starting with the weights close to your ankles and bring up the weights they show in the video

http://www.starting-a-personal-training-business.com/reverse-fly.html

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Posted by DavaDay

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Posted by Espo22

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Posted by DavaDay

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Posted by wo0shply

my trainer said to just use very little weights or no weights at all and just do more reps so you dont get man muscles.

hope that helps!

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Fire your trainer!

That doesn't happen. The only way you can get man muscles is to have an excess of testosterone, and you don't. You NEED weights to shape your muscles. If you're using only 3 or 5 pound weights, you're not challenging your muscles at all. Sure, you won't bulk up... but you won't see any change either. Unless you do, like, 100 reps, but why waste the time when you will get BETTER results by doing 3 sets of 15 reps with a better weight?

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Push-ups are great - sure you're not using dumbbells, but your body weighs, let's say, 130 pounds, and you're using your muscles to push it up off the ground. Tricep dips are also great for this reason (the excersice where you hold on to the edge of a chair with your feet on the ground and use your arms to push your butt from near the floor to near the chair.

To look toned in a strapless dress you need to work your triceps, delts (shoulders) and lats (back). Lats are strong already because you use them so much in your daily life - less than 10 lbs. for each side would be a joke, and a waste of time.

I'm sorry this is so long. It's just... I've been strength training for 10 years and read all the magazines, talk to serious weightlifters, etc. and I know a lot about it, and it drives me CRAZY when women say that they won't use heavier weights because they're afraid to look like men. With an 8-lb dumbbell? NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. And with a 3-lb. dumbbell? You're not going to see any difference in your body and it's such a waste of time.

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i agree that a woman wont bulk up easy and dont know why everybody thinks that once you do strength training it means you'll get real bulky...for a woman this is not going to happen.

However i would do workouts with 5 pound weights and in just a few short months lost ALOT, i lost close to 40 pounds and my arms got very thin. If you go to the gym and do machines and a few arm workouts then yes maybe...i would incorporate 5 pound weights with pilates workouts and do about an hour so i did see a huge difference. I also did incorporate other things such as push ups and arm dips.

If a person does 30 mins or more of JUST arm workouts and they are not used to working out then they wont be able to do more than 5 pounds for that long and non-stop arm workouts, itll be too much for them since they probably dont have much upper arm strength...if you do just 3 different arm workouts or a few then yeah thats different...but i would do about 15 different type of workouts using weights

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15 arm workouts with weights? You're a champ! I 'talk the talk' but lately I've been so stressed and busy, plus with my hand injury and all, I haven't been to the gym.

I totally agree with you... for someone just starting out, 5-lb weights are where to start. After 3 or 4 weeks, when you can comfortably do 15 reps with the 5-lb, go up to 8-lb weights. The key is that by the 15th rep, you should fee fatigued. If you do 15 reps of an exercise and feel like you could easily lift the weight another 5 times, that's when you graduate to a higher weight.

Okay, all this talk is making me feel really lazy for sitting on the couch watching the Ghost Whisperer I TiVo'ed... time to pop in 'The Firm' and get moving!

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its when i had ALOT of weight to lose so i would work out for 2 hours a day, i havent done 2 hours in a while but now i have to start again

and yes once the weights become too easy then upgrade.

I wish it was all easier hahaha. For most people arms is the first place you lose weight and can lose it quickly, for me its one of my trouble areas which s*cks. But yeah i have to get moving too hahaha

Espo - Thanks for posting all that stuff.

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Posted by NC1011

Espo - Thanks for posting all that stuff.

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No problem but honestly definitely check out 'exercise on demand' you should have that channel. They have alot of workouts that are just for arms, like i said i recommend tammy lynn webb her workouts are good...theres also a buff brides section, and ive done the buff brides arm workout and it was ok, after i did another arm workout bc although it was ok didnt feel it was really that challenging

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Posted by Espo22

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Posted by NC1011

Espo - Thanks for posting all that stuff.

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No problem but honestly definitely check out 'exercise on demand' you should have that channel. They have alot of workouts that are just for arms, like i said i recommend tammy lynn webb her workouts are good...theres also a buff brides section, and ive done the buff brides arm workout and it was ok, after i did another arm workout bc although it was ok didnt feel it was really that challenging

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Cool!! Will do

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Posted by NC1011

I really really really wanna get my arms in good shape for the big day. I dont want bulk, just toning. My arms are pretty thin but they lack definition and when they lay flat against my side I dont like how it looks in picturs

Anyone have any special exercises they are doing or know about??? Please share

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I ordered BUFF BRIDES FROM AMAZON - lots of great exercises for arms in there

to get my arms ready for the dress ido low weights with high repititions