Ah, summertime. Everyone looks forward to it year-round – it’s when you can finally put away all those long-sleeved clothes and show off your toned arms. When you’re lucky enough to have toned arms in the first place, that is. What happens when you don’t? Well, you’re stuck making excuses for your unusually warm-looking outfit in 80-degree weather because you’re afraid people will see your arm flab.
1. Push-up
This slightly more restful variant of the push-up, recommended by Jeanette Jenkins on the Huffington Post, is great for your arms, as it allow you to focus on them rather than your abs or chest. In between each push-up – or each set of push-ups – rotate your body outward, holding yourself up on one arm while reaching upward with the other. Then return to your starting position.
7. Upside-down “namaste”
8. Arm rotation
Start with your arms stretched out, then bring them together, with one arm going over the other, then the other way around. You can either use weights for this or do it empty-handed, depending on how strong your arms already are.
