Spot Toning

If you want to concentrate on toning your arms, these supplemental exercises should help. As with your usual workout, adjust them as needed for intensity, repetition, etc. Even if you don’t want to work on toning your arms, you can use them to vary your daily program to add variety.

Flabby Upper Arms

There are three helpful arm exercises for flabby upper arms. Do about a dozen pushups, your favorite style (be sure to keep your back straight). Do some reverse crab walking with a dozen or so reverse push-ups. Finally, do some shadowboxing with light weights in hand. Punch 20 each of hooks, undercuts and crossovers.

Flabby Lower Arms

There are a couple things to help with flabby lower arms. The first are “dips”. Sit on the edge of hard surface, your palms on each side of your hips and with your fingers hanging over the edge. Walk your feet out enough to get your hips off the surface you are sitting on. Bend your knees & lower yourself until your elbows are at 90 degrees with your upper arms parallel to the floor. Raise and lower yourself with your arms about a dozen times. Repeat two sets. Experienced people stretch their legs out straight.

Another helpful exercise is called kickbacks. With a small weight, reach over at the waist with hand on a surface with back flat. With weight in other hand, bring bent elbow up to side for start position. With elbow at side, reach back until elbow is straight, then lower and repeat a dozen times. Repeat two more sets. Experienced people may increase weights.

Carpal Tunnel

Use light weights or wrist weights as part of your resistance work to help wrists, but be sure not to grip them too tightly. Other exercises that work well are wrist curls, gently squeezing a rubber ball and swimming.