arms. go away.

getxsleazyy
getxsleazyy Posts: 20
edited October 3 in Health and Weight Loss
so my arms are sort of flabby. i keep doing workouts to tone them like crazy and of course watching what i eat and drinking tons of water and i seem to be losing weight EVERYWHERE BUT MY ARMS which of course is my most hated body part. they seem to have gotten a LITTLE smaller but nothing like the results i've seen in my legs and waist. any tips?

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  • DannyMussels
    DannyMussels Posts: 1,842 Member
    As long as you're losing weight (ideally fat) it'll eventually happen. Fat disappears from wherever it wants really (usually on women, hips, thighs first since thats where most of it lies).

    Your best bet is keep up with the upper-body weight routine, it'll help preseve the muscles you have up there, then continue being in a calorie deficit to hopefully lose the fat around it.

    Once that stubborn fat finally goes away, your muscles youv'e been working so hard at, will show through better.
  • rockylucas
    rockylucas Posts: 343 Member
    tricep dips
  • abbie017
    abbie017 Posts: 410
    tricep dips

    Agreed. Triceps make up the most muscle in your arms but aren't worked out nearly enough!
  • getxsleazyy
    getxsleazyy Posts: 20
    right, i'll just keep up what i'm doing then. i do like every tricep machine at the gym hahah. i couldn't believe how weak they were when i first started.
  • Ebbsies
    Ebbsies Posts: 94
    Laying flat on a bench and doing "skull crushers" is awesome too, such a great exercise because I find that they isolate my triceps a lot better than machines/cables because I'm forced to keep the elbows at a strict 90 degree angle and lift and lower without any movement from the arm aside from the forearm lowering and lifting, strictly from within the tricep rather than some of the cables which if form isn't 100% you get a lot of extra upper body muscle groups coming into play. Also working in the 12-15 rep/failure until it burns weight range is a huuuuuuge asset in arm toning. If you can make it to 12 reps without it hurting and having to exhale harder on the exertion you are lifting to light to build em up. :) I know how much this sucks, I'm still working on mine despite being an avid bodybuilder/power lifter, but after 2 kids (2 and 3) the skin there needs to be filled out because it doesn't seem like it wants to go anywhere despite being 15% BF. :O Keep at er.
  • Ebbsies
    Ebbsies Posts: 94
    LOL I realize skull crushers sound crazy but that's the name I use from bodybuilding they really aren't going to hurt you, I do them with dumbbells in each hand rather than a bar to work each arm more evenly as well. :Dhttp://www.bodybuilding.com/exercises/detail/view/name/lying-triceps-press
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