What's some good moves to tone up arms?

tricep kickbacks are good- bend your arm at a 90 degree angle and then move your forearm back, making sure to keep your elbows in.
I also use my body weight - rest your hands on a flat surface, like a bench- your fingertips facing your butt, bend your knees and lift and lower yourself.

Its kind of hard to explain without showing pictures.

Thanks Girls!!!!

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Posted by 12-3Princess

In addition to weight training, I find that push ups have sculpted my arms & back, and given me strength in my chest muscles as well!

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I agree! I have been doing push ups on the exercise ball and I see a definite difference in my arms.

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Posted by hmpena

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Posted by 12-3Princess

In addition to weight training, I find that push ups have sculpted my arms & back, and given me strength in my chest muscles as well!

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I agree! I have been doing push ups on the exercise ball and I see a definite difference in my arms.

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In some of my workout classes, we do pushups on a wedge. Definitely works your arms without worry about hurting your back.

hold weights over your head and bend behind youe head...12 reps...3 xs and then only go half down.. 12 reps 3 xs. and then whild arms are down behind head with weights...squeeze elbows together...12 reps 3 xs
good luck!

I was watching Fit-TV a couple of weeks ago, and they had Cathe Freidrich (sp?) on. I didn't pay as close attention as I probably should have, but I wrote down some of the exercises she was doing for the arms. You do the following sets:

* Do 12 reps with your lightest hand weights
* Do 10 reps with your medium hand weights
* Do 8-10 with your heaviest hand weights
* Do 10 reps with your medium hand weights
* Do 12 reps with your lightest hand weights

The 4 groups of exercises I wrote down are:

* tricep kickbacks and overhead press (with one dumbell)
* hammer curls and bicep curls
* pec fly and chest press
* lateral raises and front raises

She did several other groups of exercises, but I didn't write them down. I've done this a couple of times and let me tell you my arms were KILLING me the next day! I used 3, 5, and 8 lb dumbells.

My other suggestion would be to get Tamilee Webb's 'I Want That Body' DVD. It is broken down into six segments (2 segments of arms, 2 abs, and 2 butt). Each segment is 15 minutes long and it really does work!

Hope this helps!

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Posted by frosty

I was watching Fit-TV a couple of weeks ago, and they had Cathe Freidrich (sp?) on. I didn't pay as close attention as I probably should have, but I wrote down some of the exercises she was doing for the arms. You do the following sets:

* Do 12 reps with your lightest hand weights
* Do 10 reps with your medium hand weights
* Do 8-10 with your heaviest hand weights
* Do 10 reps with your medium hand weights
* Do 12 reps with your lightest hand weights

The 4 groups of exercises I wrote down are:

* tricep kickbacks and overhead press (with one dumbell)



* hammer curls and bicep curls
* pec fly and chest press
* lateral raises and front raises

She did several other groups of exercises, but I didn't write them down. I've done this a couple of times and let me tell you my arms were KILLING me the next day! I used 3, 5, and 8 lb dumbells.

My other suggestion would be to get Tamilee Webb's 'I Want That Body' DVD. It is broken down into six segments (2 segments of arms, 2 abs, and 2 butt). Each segment is 15 minutes long and it really does work!

Hope this helps!

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Thank you so much!!!!

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Posted by hmpena

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Posted by 12-3Princess

In addition to weight training, I find that push ups have sculpted my arms & back, and given me strength in my chest muscles as well!

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I agree! I have been doing push ups on the exercise ball and I see a definite difference in my arms.

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Are you girls talking about guy push-ups or the bent knee girl push=ups?