5 Pointers For Losing Arm Fat
December 23rd, 2009 Posted by: Katherine Crawford
When learning how to lose arm fat, your first priority should be to understand how the 5 major muscles in your arm work. There are no shortcuts here. You absolutely need to have an intimate understanding on how to properly exercise all your arm muscles.
Now you are probably envisioning a manly pair of arms. The good news is that you will never develop said arms. Let me enlighten you before you have more visions.
You see, glands in the male body produce sixty percent more testosterone (muscle hormone) than glands in the female body. This enormous difference will block your body from producing beastly man-arms. You simply do not have enough testosterone for this to ever happen.
So keep an open mind when learning how to lose arm fat! And please ignore the photographs you see of professional female bodybuilders. They inject themselves with anabolic (growth) hormones and train at least 3 hours a day, every day.
Do not fear picking up a weight just because you think you will end up looking like a Sheman. It has been my experience that far too many women resist weight training because of this misplaced fear. So here are 5 things to consider when learning how to lose arm fat:
1. Working all the triceps muscles. Located in your arm, the triceps is made up of 3 primary muscles. It comprises 60% of your arm muscle. The triceps has a lateral, medial and long head. A killer exercise for the medial head is criss-cross extensions from a pulley.
2. The biceps muscles in your arms. The biceps (meaning two) is comprised of 2 major muscles and accounts for forty percent of your arm mass. To properly work all the biceps muscles, you have to isolate the long and short head. A great exercise for the long head is incline dumbbell curls on a bench with writs slanted out.
3. Dont count calories. If you restrict yourself of pleasure foods and count calories like a robot, you will be destined to fail. Even worse, once you get off this unrealistic regimen all the floppy arm fat will come right back. A better (and more realistic) approach is to eat high-quality meals and to forget about measuring everything.
4. Eat high-quality meals. Ignore all the hyped up diets, all you have to do is place a protein, carbohydrate, fat and vegetable source in each one of your meals. Figuring out how to lose arm fat is not that hard!
5. Water consumption. Seventy five percent of your arm is water, only twenty five percent is muscle. If you dont pay attention to water intake, you are missing out on 75% of the equation on how to lose arm fat. Drink only distilled or purified water between meals.
Learning how to lose arm fat should not give you a migraine. The truth of the matter is that its much easier than you have been led to believe. And when you focus on the 5 areas I have outlined, the arm fat will come off much faster than you can imagine.
