If you’re looking to get those sleeker, more toned and tight arms that are on the likes of stars like Sarah Jessica Parker and Madonna, you may not want to be looking to the weight benches to get their signature sinews. If you’re looking for more tone, but without the bulk, then pilates for your arms may be just what the doctor ordered.

I do pilates periodically for my arms, and it’s both because I want those more toned and taut arms without the bulking up, and also because my arms tend to have fat on them, especially my upper arms, which is a common places for fat to be stored on women, but also because I do not need to bulk up what I’m trying to slim down essentially.

Pilates are a combination of yoga and calisthetics, in that they are slow moving, very deliberate and targeted specific exercises that use a slightly isometric motion to target tone specific areas of the body. They are very popular for women who don’t want to bulk up, but rather want that longer, leaner look to their body, and want to tone areas such as their inner and outer thighs, butt, tummy and arms.

For my arms, the pilates I do are a small, targeted circular motion where the arms are extended out from my sides, and I am moving forward with them for about twenty counts, and then backward for about twenty counts, all while maintaining that small range of motion and the tight, specific region of the movement stays the same.

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