How to Tone Up Flabby Arms Flabby arms are embarrassing especially if you like wearing strappy dresses or sleeveless tops. Tone up flabby arms for good and feel sexy again. There are two reasons for flabby arms, one is being overweight and you will have to address this as well, but it’s not the only reason. The other reason is loss of tone to the muscle at the back of your arm, the tricep muscle, and there are many women who are slight in build that also suffer from flabby arms, especially as they get older. So it's not only people who are overweight who have flabby arms. Most instructions on how to tone up flabby arms assume you are overweight, my exercises for toning up flabby arms focus on one target – and that is how to tone up flabby arm muscles. The muscles at the back of the top your arms are no different to any other muscles in your body. The problem is they are hard to get to. Before I give you tips on how to tone up flabby arm muscles it’s a good idea to understand how muscles in general work and interact with each other. Muscles are there to move your bones and they fall into two groups. One group of muscles shortens as the other group lengthens to allow the joint to flex and they work in pairs in tandem with each other. Strengthening the muscles on the back of your arms is tricky to say the least. The reason I say this is because if you go about this by bending your arm at the elbow and using weights to add resistance you will also build up the muscles on top of your arm as they work hard to shorten. This is fine if you actually want bulging biceps. If you don’t then it poses a problem. The muscles on the back of your arms lengthen and stretch. Lifting anything at all will cause the muscles on the top of your arms to shorten. So don’t be tempted to tone up your arms by lifting weights unless you want to tone up all the arm muscles or have rippling muscles. If you do want to tone up your arms using weights then watch the 5 minute Tone Body Arms Workout Video at the bottom of this page. There are several exercises you can do and how fast your arms tone up depends largely on how often you do them. Flabby Arms Exercises Without Weights Flabby Arms Exercise 1 Stand with feet shoulder width apart, step forward with one foot and bend slightly at the knees. Hold your arms a little away from your sides, bend your arms at the elbow, form fists with your hands and hold your fists at chin level. You should now be in a boxer stance. Punch the air in front of you alternately with each fist so that your arms extend to their full length at shoulder level and you twist at the waist. Keep your arms up at shoulder level and count 20 energetic punches. Without stopping, look up and punch the air above your head in the same way. Extend your arms to their full length and feel those muscles stretch. Put as much energy into it as you can and c... | 