Am I starting right ? will i see result ?

0Leena0

Hey All

I have lost lot of weight during the last 2 years (gone from 90 kg to 62 kg/ height 163-164) but i still dont like how my body looks, although i incorporated some weights and a few workout but i dont think it was enough to tighten different parts of my body.

currently im struggling with my ARMS and Belly !! i have a lot of Jiggle and fat thats i wanna get rid off, unfortunately i can't afford going to the Gym so i made a workout plan with what i can get access to ( 20 kg bar bell, 4 kg dumbbell and 2 kg dumbell)

workout routine:

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1/ Dumbbell Triceps Kickback ( 4 sets- 10 reps)
2/ boxing with dumbells ( 4 sets- 10 reps)
3/ Squats with weights ( 4 sets- 10 reps)
4/ Triceps extension ( 7 sets - 10 reps)
5/ Plank twist ( 4 sets- 10 reps)
6/ Fire Hydrant ( 4 sets- 10 reps)
7/ Bench Dips ( 7 sets - 10 reps)
8/ Deadlift ( 7 sets - 10 reps)
9/ bent over barbell row ( 3 sets - 10 reps)


The first picture was taken in Oct 2021




These was tacken on Mar 2022






I know there is no difference but the only difference i saw is when i flex i can see some muscle but the triceps have not even tightened a little bit -_-


Should i do something different or increase the sets and the reps since i dont have access to different weights

AnnPT77

You're not flexing enough to see the triceps. They're still relaxed in all the photos, and relaxed triceps will look like that, under the influence of gravity.

Don't hold out your relaxed arm like that, and assume that anything hang-y is fat or loose skin. It's not. I guarantee, *some* of the hang-y bit is muscle. How much of muscle, fat, skin - that varies individually. In any case where I've ever had a woman do this in real life, and hold onto the "flap" of "fat and loose skin" right up to near the bone as she flexed hard . . . some - usually lots - of that hang-y stuff got firm when she flexed. That part is muscle. Please don't hate it when it's relaxed: It's supposed to be more slack then.

This is me (below), photos taken seconds apart. I'm not saying I have zero fat or loose skin, either . . . but it sure looks like a different amount with a better (but still imperfect) flex, doesn't it? (BTW, I'm old, 66, as well as someone who lost around 1/3 of her bodyweight, so that will affect my overall appearance here.)

Photo 1: This is my arm, relaxed:



Photo 2: This that very same arm, mere moments later, flexed much more than you're flexing in your photo:



This thread would be a good read, too:

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10842208/moment-of-realness/p1

The arm bits aren't in the first posts, but they're in there. This one, also, related to belly goals and how different women's workouts have affected theirs:

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10689837/does-this-uterus-make-my-stomach-look-fat/p1

IMO, working on performance tends to bring appearance along. YMMV.

I wish you success with your goals, even if they differ from mine, sincerely!

claireychn074

Ooo nice bicep flex @AnnPT77 😀

sijomial

If you want to see your triceps flex with a vertical, straight arm and not a horizontal bent arm.

Personally I would swap out those tricep isolation exercises with a dumbbell shoulder press and bench press (or press ups), more bang for your buck for the same investment in time.

Your bodyweight can be a very effective tool when your choice of weights is limited.

yirara

What the others said: everyone has those flappy triceps. Some people just know how to hold their arms to avoid them in some circumstances - like glossy photos.

0Leena0

AnnPT77 wrote: »

You're not flexing enough to see the triceps. They're still relaxed in all the photos, and relaxed triceps will look like that, under the influence of gravity.

Don't hold out your relaxed arm like that, and assume that anything hang-y is fat or loose skin. It's not. I guarantee, *some* of the hang-y bit is muscle. How much of muscle, fat, skin - that varies individually. In any case where I've ever had a woman do this in real life, and hold onto the "flap" of "fat and loose skin" right up to near the bone as she flexed hard . . . some - usually lots - of that hang-y stuff got firm when she flexed. That part is muscle. Please don't hate it when it's relaxed: It's supposed to be more slack then.

This is me (below), photos taken seconds apart. I'm not saying I have zero fat or loose skin, either . . . but it sure looks like a different amount with a better (but still imperfect) flex, doesn't it? (BTW, I'm old, 66, as well as someone who lost around 1/3 of her bodyweight, so that will affect my overall appearance here.)

Photo 1: This is my arm, relaxed:



Photo 2: This that very same arm, mere moments later, flexed much more than you're flexing in your photo:



This thread would be a good read, too:

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10842208/moment-of-realness/p1

The arm bits aren't in the first posts, but they're in there. This one, also, related to belly goals and how different women's workouts have affected theirs:

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10689837/does-this-uterus-make-my-stomach-look-fat/p1

IMO, working on performance tends to bring appearance along. YMMV.

I wish you success with your goals, even if they differ from mine, sincerely!

sijomial wrote: »

If you want to see your triceps flex with a vertical, straight arm and not a horizontal bent arm.

Personally I would swap out those tricep isolation exercises with a dumbbell shoulder press and bench press (or press ups), more bang for your buck for the same investment in time.

Your bodyweight can be a very effective tool when your choice of weights is limited.

thanks for your input, but I don't think i follow when you said " don't hold your arm that way " if not how am i supposed to see if that hangy stuff is reduced or not. May i know why do you think tricep isolation exercises may have less effect. I mean before I used to do a dumbbell shoulder press while standing and other arms workout (alternating between weights or not) but all i managed to reduce was 4 CM only !! went from 34 to 30 now -_-

0Leena0

yirara wrote: »

What the others said: everyone has those flappy triceps. Some people just know how to hold their arms to avoid them in some circumstances - like glossy photos.

you know I was really shocked and disappointed when I saw my arms! i saw hundreds and thousands of weight loss success story videos and i always see the arms first and most of them slim their arm through their journey so i thought if all these people could do it without a surgery i can but then reality hits

sijomial

sijomial wrote: »

If you want to see your triceps flex with a vertical, straight arm and not a horizontal bent arm.

Personally I would swap out those tricep isolation exercises with a dumbbell shoulder press and bench press (or press ups), more bang for your buck for the same investment in time.

Your bodyweight can be a very effective tool when your choice of weights is limited.

thanks for your input, but I don't think i follow when you said " don't hold your arm that way " if not how am i supposed to see if that hangy stuff is reduced or not. May i know why do you think tricep isolation exercises may have less effect. I mean before I used to do a dumbbell shoulder press while standing and other arms workout (alternating between weights or not) but all i managed to reduce was 4 CM only !! went from 34 to 30 now -_- [/quote]

Sure hold your arm that way if you want to make it look as bad as possible.....
But you seem to be tensing your biceps (to bend your arm) but not pulling the opposite way with your triceps anywhere near enough to see both biceps and triceps. Some of that "hangy stuff" is relaxed triceps.

Isolation exercises have limited benefit and often get used far too much, have a look at professionally designed programs for people in your position and you will see far more compound exercises. You could view isolation as the condiment to the main course of compound work. Tricep kickback in particular is a poor use of time - ever seen anyone in real life as opposed to the gym lift a weight like that?
It's one of the least useful exercises if you want to build tricep strength and size which it seems you want to do as clearly exercising muscles doesn't reduce skin or fat "hangy stuff".

AnnPT77

0Leena0 wrote: »

yirara wrote: »

What the others said: everyone has those flappy triceps. Some people just know how to hold their arms to avoid them in some circumstances - like glossy photos.

you know I was really shocked and disappointed when I saw my arms! i saw hundreds and thousands of weight loss success story videos and i always see the arms first and most of them slim their arm through their journey so i thought if all these people could do it without a surgery i can but then reality hits

Those people are posing so that the triceps aren't relaxed, so the triceps don't hang down. That's what we're saying. (Some of them are even photoshopped, after being professionally photographed and lighted, and they use other "look toned" tricks, like lifting right before the videos, being a bit dehydrated, etc.)

If you don't want your arms to look as flappy in photos, don't hold your arms so they'll look flappy in photos. That's the main way the "fitspo" people do it. Yes, they're fit and slim, but they're posing, too.

If I made a point of doing the same thing the influencers do, I think I could market myself as a li'l ol' lady fitspo influencer for seniors. (It would be dishonest, but I think I - and a good photographer - could make it work.) I'd need better photos than I can take selfie-style with my cell phone (that's how I took the ones I posted!), and I sure wouldn't show that first one with my arm held out straight! I've watched videos with lean, fit, muscular men who - when they wave their relaxed arms around - have flappy upper arm stuff. Relaxed muscles are slack. When they're relaxed and slack, they're mobile, i.e. they flap. Do you have some fat or loose skin on your arms? Maybe. But not as much as you think.

BTW: You saw thousands of weight loss success story videos? Advice: Watch fewer videos. They're mostly bunk. Watching "transformation" videos doesn't tone anything. It wastes time that could be better spent toward accomplishing our own goals.

No, wait, watch this one, even though it's a guy:

https://youtu.be/M957dACQyfU