I’ve always wanted sculpted, sinewy, muscular yet still feminine arms, and somehow that has eluded me most of my life, since my fat seems to automatically migrate to my upper arms and my thighs. But that’s what it’s like for most women. The most common places for fat to accumulate on a woman are the thighs, buttocks and the upper arms. It’s just a fact of life, and it’s something that most women have to fight tooth and nail, and can’t let up on during their lives, or else their upper arms will turn flabby again before they can say the words “arm workout hiatus”.

I did have skinny muscular arms once. However, I was at a point in my life where I dieted very strictly, and I just don’t think that I can diet like that again . I severely limited my refined carbohydrates, and I worked out religiously at least 5 to 6 times a week. I’m just at a different point in my life now. I like to eat the occasional pancake breakfast, and eat a slice of chocolate cake here and there. It’s these little things that give me pleasure, and I can’t forego them anymore like I used to be easily able to do in my younger days, for the sake of skinnier clothes.

Here are some of the roadblocks that women have up when they are trying to get that skinny armed, toned and yet still feminine look to their arms. They first of all do not possess as much testosterone as men do, and therefore it is actually harder and more labor intensive for women to gain muscle mass in most areas of the body, particularly the arms. Men just get big arms a little more easily. It doesn’t mean we as women can’t get those arm muscles, we just usually have to work a little harder and longer for it.

Also throw down the roadblock of birth control. Many birth control pills hinder the production of testosterone, which destroys a woman’s abilities to get larger arm muscles. She must work double time to achieve the same muscle mass many times if she is on an estrogen birth control method. Women are made to actually have higher levels of body fat on them, because we bear children, and that is how nature intended us to look. But it’s not all a bad thing. Actually, higher fat in the thigh area has been shown to be correlated with higher IQ’s in women, so there!

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