Us women struggle with the upper arm fat, and boy I’ll tell you, it’s something that I’ve been wrestling with for years now. Even when I whittle my waist and other parts of my body down significantly through exercise and diet, my arms are still there. Mind you, they’re not enormous or anything, but that flabby jiggly part that’s underneath has always drove me nuts. It looks out of proportion with the rest of me, and I’ve always really wanted to just get it sucked out with surgery or something to be honest because I’m convinced that no amount of triceps moves are going to actually get rid of it or cut it down significantly.
However, in the interest of being “natural” I’ve always looked for ways to narrow my upper arms and help sculpt them so that at least the fat up there doesn’t jiggle when I wave to someone. Ugh, there’s nothing more annoying or embarrassing than that! Pilates is one of the ways that you can help narrow your arms down, but you have to make sure you’re doing the pilates at an intense enough rate to get any benefit. The arms rows, or the hundredth is where you rapidly beat the arms up and down, but in a very tight, small and controlled motion, and this does help, but you have to really drive up the intensity and do multiple steps for it to be of maximum benefit.
Pilates is great, but you really have to still also make sure you are getting your cardio in to burn off the fat that is clinging to the arms. This can be your typical running, jogging, exercising on a bike, swimming or whatever you choose it to be, but you need to make sure you are doing several cardio sessions per year. Those of you women who are on the pill, you may want to note that it may be harder for you to shed this fat and sculpt muscle since it lowers your tesosterone levels, which are a big part of developing arm muscle and getting rid of fat.
The key is to be consistent in working out your arms, making sure you work them out every time you do it, and also in switching between lighter weights with many reps and heavier weights with less reps.
