Can you help a girl out?

You can't spot reduce sweetie!

They will look better and better as you reduce overall fat. Tone up the arms with exercises for biceps, triceps and shoulders and upper back. They will come along. For me triceps and upper back fa are the hard ones. Keep us posted you can do it!

There is no such thing as 'toning' the muscle....you need to eat at a deficit to lose body fat and LIFT WEIGHTS to maintain your lean body mass aka your existing muscle. When you lose body fat, that's when you will begin to look smaller, including your arms. If you don't exercise, that's when you might start to lose muscle along with body fat which will result in a 'soft' appearance, not the 'toned' look that you and most people are going for. What you are seeing on these people is muscle and the only reason you can see it is because of a lower body fat percentage. Lift heavy, 5lb dumbbells are not enough IMO. Good luck and good day!

You can't spot reduce.. but what you can do it lift and exercise so when you lose the fat the nice toned muscles are waiting for you.. I can feel my abs under the remaining layer of fat and I can't wait for them to peak though. I also have a little on my triceps, but they are pretty strong and have muscles that i never had before as well.

When I do cardio (usually 1 hour on treadmill/incline) I use hand weights that are 10 pounds and I move them all around alternating exercise styles and I now have less arm jiggle........ good luck!:flowerforyou:

it sort of seems like she just wants some guidance on arm routines maybe?

Youtube has some great ones. Just search for "arm workout" or any of several variations thereof, avoid anything that just looks absurd, and you should be all set.

Or maybe it's 9am and caffeine hasn't happened yet and i'm completely full of it.

Everyone says you can't spot reduce. I'm no expert, but from personal experience, lifting 5-lb. weights, shoveling manure, hauling and lifting bags of topsoil, and my former underarm jiggle is now firm and jiggles not at all. I didn't lose a whole lot of weight, only 12 lbs. or so, but it shows.

The biggest thing that has helped my arms is to do a lifting routine with compound lifts (Starting Strength, Stronglifts, etc) while eating at a small deficit. Do you have access to a gym?

Haha thanks guys lol I almost deleted this!! Yeah I've been doing the JM workouts and I'm having a hard time with the plank exercises because I can't hold myself up for very long

Planks are great! I have been pushing myself to increase my time. I use my phone stop watch lying beneath me to time it. I coach cheer at my middle school, so it is really motivating for me that I can do better than any of my girls! I am in MUCH better shape than any of them! It is also fun to encourage them to try harder and get more seconds. We do the same with jumping jacks, push ups and squats. We have made it up to 60 seconds of planks and 75 jumping jacks.

Good luck with your definition! My starting showing more when I got to be in the middle section of my weight range. I am 5'5" and my range on most calculators says 120-150. I started in January at 170 (I've been at goal before, but got lazy and stressed!). I am now 136. My arms are looking really good on top, but I still need to keep doing exercises to 'target' (yes, I know you can't spot reduce, but you can't ignore a muscle group either!) my triceps. The backs are the only part that jingle a bit. My husband noticed my arms and was like 'whoa' you are getting buff!

Haha thanks guys lol I almost deleted this!! Yeah I've been doing the JM workouts and I'm having a hard time with the plank exercises because I can't hold myself up for very long

Why would you delete your original post? They were all very valid answers to your question. You asked for exercises that would specifically target arm fat, and most of the replies were saying the same thing, that you can't target fat loss in any one particular area. The majority of fat loss is achieved through your diet. If you're eating more calories than you are burning and lifting weights then you will gain both muscle and fat. Since you want to lose fat, figure out your TDEE and eat about 20% less than that. Do full body compound lifts that target all major muscle groups and your arms as well as the rest of your body will get smaller and firmer (less body fat). If you're very new to exercise then you might even gain a little muscle at first, too. I've had great success getting leaner using free weights and barbells. Since you don't have access to a gym, all of the exercises that metacognition recommended for your arms are great. On days where I'm not lifting 'super heavy', I grab a set of 10 or 15 lb dumbbells and do dumbbell presses, chest flys, side lateral raises, 'skull crushers', bicep curls, front dumbbell raises- you can also do some of these exercises with resistance bands. It's also great to not neglect the rest of your body when doing these and incorporate some squats or lunges in between each rep. Of course you can also do pushups and pull ups at home if you can get a pull up bar that you hang in a doorway.