Toned arms please!!
Monroe121
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Simplest exercise(s) to tone arms? Please?
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pick up heavy things8
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And put them back down.5
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Also lower your BF%.4
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Pushups, dips, and inverted pullups with a reverse grip.
But if you're trying to lose fat off your arms, these won't help. NO EXERCISE will because you cannot target fat loss on any specific area. If you're trying to lose fat, you have to lose weight overall.
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I'm assuming by toned, you mean "can see the muscle under the fat". So, first, you have to reduce your overall fat, which comes with a calorie deficit, which is primarily diet based. You can't pick where the fat comes from and when, and no exercise is going to make fat come off faster. But, you can also strength train to maintain muscle while losing fat, so you have some nice muscle to show off as you lose the fat. Any upper body exercise will help you, really. I'd start with things like bench, push-ups, pull ups, bent over rows and overhead press, as you get a lot of bang for your buck. You could always add isolation exercises.5
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+1 for pushups, dips and pullups.
Easiest way to build up your chest, arms and back but, as others have said, no exercise is worth a darn if you haven't lost sufficient weight (and fat) by means of a deficit diet to make the effort noticeable.1 -
This is me, learning to keep my mouth shut lol
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Did you edit out a snippy remark? You know your edit looks quite snippy too don't you?
Lots of people want to look "toned". What do we expect when that is the terminology used in our society? Yes it's a misnomer and people who are into it know it isn't a real thing, but we also know what is meant by it
OP if you want to look toned you need to know that is a result of low body fat and achieved through calorie defecit, but strengthening the muscles in your body with a full body programme will certainly help ..pull ups, push ups are full body...rows and tricep work isolation
You'd be best following a full body programme and eating to a calorie defecit
Good luck
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love the overhead press.1
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Lose weight overall and strength training to build arm muscles. I do take a Body Pump class 2x a week, and my arms have a lot of muscle definition. Like other posters said, you have to lose fat so your muscles will show, and lifting weights will make your muscles show provided you do it consistently and work to increase weight.1
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The word "tone" doesn't really mean anything.
If you want to build muscle; lift heavy and eat in a surplus.
If you want to reduce bodyfat to show your muscle; lift heavy and eat in a deficit.4 -
If "toned" does not mean anything, neither does "shredded." Both refer to having visible muscle, with the difference being just how much muscle and body fat. I have never seen a poster corrected or sniped at for wanting to get shredded and yet "toned" is constantly berated. Difference goals for different people, folks.13
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trigden1991 wrote: »The word "tone" doesn't really mean anything.
it actually does have meaning, to people like physiotherapists and rmts.
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If "toned" does not mean anything, neither does "shredded." Both refer to having visible muscle, with the difference being just how much muscle and body fat. I have never seen a poster corrected or sniped at for wanting to get shredded and yet "toned" is constantly berated. Difference goals for different people, folks.
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canadianlbs wrote: »trigden1991 wrote: »The word "tone" doesn't really mean anything.
it actually does have meaning, to people like physiotherapists and rmts.
It's bastardisation of tonus isn't it?1 -
If "toned" does not mean anything, neither does "shredded." Both refer to having visible muscle, with the difference being just how much muscle and body fat. I have never seen a poster corrected or sniped at for wanting to get shredded and yet "toned" is constantly berated. Difference goals for different people, folks.
Best discussion I've read yet about "toning": http://www.aworkoutroutine.com/muscle-tone/2 -
canadianlbs wrote: »trigden1991 wrote: »The word "tone" doesn't really mean anything.
it actually does have meaning, to people like physiotherapists and rmts.
It's bastardisation of tonus isn't it?
I believe so. I think of "low muscle tone" vs regular muscle tone when it comes to kids. Kids with low muscle tone are kind of floppy, for lack of a better description. People who want to be toned do not want to be floppy or jiggly, they want to be somewhat firm but not with a very low body fat. I read "toned" and think of Jennifer Aniston (because I do not keep up with celebrities and cannot name any actresses who are popular right now) for a female example.2 -
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If "toned" does not mean anything, neither does "shredded." Both refer to having visible muscle, with the difference being just how much muscle and body fat. I have never seen a poster corrected or sniped at for wanting to get shredded and yet "toned" is constantly berated. Difference goals for different people, folks.
I've never heard anyone ask how to shred a particular body part. If they did, i would certainly educate them about the spot-reduction myth. I probably wouldn't need to discuss lifting weights much, because people who ask about getting shredded tend to have lifting experience.
OP - i don't know if you're still around, but i would follow a full-body strength program designed by a pro (NROL4W, SL5x5, etc), without modifying it to target loose areas extra.
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Toned means muscular but not bulky, in the way it is used here, as most people very well know.
OP you've had the best advice already - lower your body fat through diet, and do exercises that work the muscles in your arms like pushups. Search YouTube for beginner arm workouts and expect to do the work regularly and for a long time.0 -
Lose fat
And thistcunbeliever wrote: »pick up heavy things
Followed by thisChef_Barbell wrote: »And put them back down.
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Purely subjective but this is not toned to me, there's no musculature visible at all and it's a really bad photo shop jobamyrebeccah wrote: »
Googling "toned arms woman" I got these.
I find this very aspirational, but that dumbbell upsets me, nobody got there with that ..unless she's doing wrist stretches of course, the picture is called 4 efficient exercises to get toned arms ..lol..stupid blogs and fitness derpamyrebeccah wrote: »
I know that was your point, it's just interesting to objectively analyse those shots and think nope, nope, nope, yeah baby2 -
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canadianlbs wrote: »trigden1991 wrote: »The word "tone" doesn't really mean anything.
it actually does have meaning, to people like physiotherapists and rmts.
In this context................0
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