My arms need help!

Muscle will not make you look bigger; that's a myth. Pinterest has a lots of at home work outs for arms. Push ups, arm circles, and chair dips are all good for arm workouts.

You need to work with some weights. Light weights will tone without bulking up. There's no way you can target your arms through dieting.

Focus on triceps, so dips, tricep kickbacks, triceps extensions, and push-ups. The triceps are the muscles that tone the bottom of your arms, so you lose the chicken wing effect!

Adding muscle will not make you look bigger. Weights will give you what you want. A more defined look. I would look on Pinterest to get started and start with 5 pound weights.

There are also a lot of great YouTube videos as well. For cardio, have you tried swimming? It’s not my favorite, but always kicks my butt! It is low pressure on your joints.

I would do some light weight lifting. Check out the web for good workouts

Push ups really help me as well as light weights. I have broad shoulders and the light weights never make me look bulky.

Push ups, dips, lateral raises (with small dumbbell weights). It's actually shown that lifting weights will make you lose weight faster than cardio. Don't be afraid to use some weights to tone up.

As silly as it sounds, I do push ups or dips on the vanity in the bathroom at work each time I use it. It's become a habit and I think it's helping to firm up my bat wings

1. You can not spot reduce body fat, you have to get leaner overall. This is done by being in a caloric deficit.

2. Muscle will only make your arms look bigger if you add muscle and do not lose any fat. So as long as you continue dieting and exercising you will be fine.

Heavier weights will give you the "toned" arms you want. No - they wont make you look manly. It takes a lot of effort to get "manly" arms and no one gets arms like that on accident.

For exercises - compound barbell movements will give you the most bang for your buck. Do bench press, over head shoulder press & bent over barbell rows. Then add in accessory work such as shoulder press, lateral raises (front and side), rear delt flys, bicep curls, tricep kickbacks, skull crushers.... theres a lot you can do! Do not be afraid to go heavy!! Do a mixture of low rep, high weight days and high rep low weight days.

I have both dumbells and a band that I'm using. I just sit at home on days I don't go to the gym, while watching TV, and just do curls or stretch the band out and hold it as long as I can. My arms also need help lol.

Other good ideas are push ups (They can be the ones where you're on your knees, they get just as difficult after a while), arm circles, and something as simple as moving your arms while you're walking.

I also spin flag, so I'm planning on going outside when it's warmer and just messing around with that, but I wouldn't advise that unless you wanna pick up a new hobby!

Try blogilates.com or the youtube channel blogilates. Cassie Ho has some videos for targeting certain areas. She also just started a Bridal Boot Camp series

All good advice. The good news is you already look beautiful in your dress!

It’s a myth that muscles will make you look bigger - it’s often why many women won’t hit the weight rack at the gym. Unfortunately, you can’t spot reduce. If you want to lose mass in your arms and build muscle, you’ll need to do a mixture of eating in a caloric deficit, cardiovascular exercise, and weight training. For toning up your arms, start with low weights or body weights. If you search Pinterest, you’ll probably find multiple routines or exercises to help tone your arms. Pushups (wide, normal, and narrow triangle hands) are always good. Try doing exercises that focus on your biceps, triceps, shoulder, chest, and upper back. Tricep exercises will get rid of the “bat wing” effect some people have but you should try to work out all areas of your upper body. I work out pretty regularly, 5-6 times per week. For upper body, I will do one day of chest and tricep exercises, one day of back, biceps, and shoulder exercises, and one day of yoga (YouTube) that focuses on upper body. Your dress is very pretty btw!

Check out this workout. It’s 12 minutes and super easy to do. I’ve been doing it to time my arms and I’ve seen real results. I do it at least 4 times a week with 5lbs dumbbells cause I don’t want to bulk up, just tone up as well.

Hope this helps!!!

I don’t know if the link worked in my last post so here it is

https://youtu.be/hAGfBjvIRFI

I think you look great! I am personally against dieting/altering yourself too much for your wedding. You want to look like you! And you already look beautiful!

I started doing 10 regular, on your toes push-ups every day at the beginning of March, and after a month, I could tell a HUGE difference. I started off really pitiful and could hardly get close to the ground, but doing 10 push-ups every morning quickly turned into wanting to do 10 more at night, and sometimes around 60 a day. Not trying to brag, but I was amazed how easy they became, and I enjoyed the challenge of learning how to do them! This month, I'm planning on keeping it up, but I'm going to add tricep dips and light weight exercises.

Following this! I used to believe that weight lifting wouldn't help me get thinner but it actually does! You need a good balance of everything! I do bilogates arm workouts and it's awesome.

If you have access to weights, do bicep curls. To tone up your shoulders, do behind the head tricep dips. There are videosof both of those on youtube.
I also like doing crazy 8 barbell curls with my fiance. You and a partner each have a barbell, and you take turns curling it, adding one to each round. You each do 1, then 2, all the way up to 8 and back down to 1. You end up doing 64 total, but its more fun that way.