arm excercise?

wiffe

OK not sure I can explain it right but. If while sitting on the couch or chair or while driving could I take a hand weight (1-3lbs) and put arm out straight and then lift it and bend elbow to shoulder. Does that even make sense? Will that help the chicken flap.

loulou169

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wiffe

bump for help

wiffe

anyone???

TrainingWithTonya

First of all, don't lift weights while driving. Concentrate on the road.

Second, what you are describing is a Hercules Curl--where you take your arm out so that the elbow is up even with the shoulder and you curl your arm as if you were going to touch your shoulder. It looks like Hercules flexing his biceps if you do both arms at the same time, hence the name. That works the front of the arm, not the back (triceps) where women complain of chicken wings. For the back of the arm, you want to do triceps exercises like overhead triceps extensions (http://www.acefitness.org/exerciselibrary/57/stability-ball-dumbbell-overhead-triceps-extension), triceps kickbacks (http://www.acefitness.org/exerciselibrary/55/dumbbell-triceps-kickback), or dips (http://www.acefitness.org/exerciselibrary/159/bodyweight-dips). These sites show the overhead triceps extension done seated on a stability ball, but you can do them on a chair or standing. They also show the dips with a dip bar, but you can do them on a chair too, just sit down and then slide your butt off so that you are using your arms to hold you on the seat and dip down in front of the chair.

Finally, 1-3 pound weights aren't going to do much for building up the muscle to fill any lose skin you have on the back of the arms. Go with as heavy a weight as you can handle so that the last 1-2 reps in a set of 10 will be hard to complete.

wiffe

Oh I didnt' mean while I drove exactly. OOPS sorry.

TrainingWithTonya

Oh I didnt' mean while I drove exactly. OOPS sorry.

I didn't figure you did, but you never know. There are warning labels on things all the time that I question why common sense doesn't tell people not to do that and I know the labels are there because Someone did it at some point in time. Hence the wink with the warning not to do it while driving. It was more a giggle then a warning, but I'm sure someone out there will try it if they didn't see a warning not to do it.