Good arm exercises?

[Abby]

Does anyone know of any good exercises for your arms? I'm trying to tone up that area, but seem to be coming up short. I'm not super jiggly back there, just a little soft.

Tips?

[Hayley KJ]

possibly, you can start by doing them with your feet nearer the chair for extra control and stability (your arms would be taking less resistance as well) your knees would therefore bend as you dip your bottom off the chair, as you get used to it and better you can start moving your feet further away to up the resistance by adding leverage.

Gina T. said:

Hayley KJ said:

You could try tricep dips, you basically use a chair with its back to a wall. Go from a sitting position with your hands each side holding the chair, let your bottom drop off the edge of the chair with your legs stretched out on the floor a bit. Take the weight on your arms and bring your body up and down (your bottom should be skimming the edge of the chair seat) using your body weight as the resistance.

Ive done these before. they work pretty well, but they sometimes hurt my shoulder. could I be doing them wrong?

[danny arnold]

so what exactly are you after? when ppl say tone up it always confuses me a little do you want to look more ripped? get bigger arms? lose fat from that area?

either way, do not forget that your tricep is over 70% of your upper arm, so to tone arms dont just focus on the bicep like most ppl do. when you do your chest exercises, do your bicep - exercises such as preacher curls, cable curls etc. just make sure than wen u do it, your upper arm doesn't move an inch and its your forearm that shud be moving only. focuses all the effort on the upper arm this way with no cheating or short cutting.

when you do your back exercises do your triceps too (this way, your arms get an even workout but so does the rest of your body so nothing is being neglected!) a good one for triceps is to lie on a bench holding dumbells with a neautral grip at arms length in front of you. bend at the elbow so that the dumbells in each hand come to touch your ears, then trying to keep the upper arm in that fixed position, straighten ure arm by pushing the forearm back up in front of you. kinda like a skull crusher but with 2 single dumbbells insteada one.

as usual no pain no gain so make sure u dont half arse it and you'll get all the results you want.

[Jesse]

By saying "back there" you must be describing your triceps. Your triceps are the most important muscle group concerning your arms. Albeit, if you head into a gym you'll see many novices working their biceps more vigorously. The reason is simply for vanity sake, for the triceps make up 2/3 of the upper arm. If your "jiggly" in the arm area it doesn't necessarily mean that you don't have any tricep muscles to speak of. Your muscles are there but have excess lipids (fat) covering them. Adding extra Cardio is great for tightening up problem areas. This will serve as a successful tool. When you start to see results write back to me and I'll be sure to give you those arm exercises! Until then my friend...