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048 GFG How To Tone The Back Of Your Arms

Get-Fit Guy

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Sports, Health & Fitness

4.5753 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2011

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Learn how to tone the back of your arms, good triceps exercises, and and the best arm toning workout.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Get Fit Guys' quick and dirty tips to slim down and shape up.

0:08.8

My name is Ben Greenfield, and I'm the Get Fit Guy.

0:12.2

Have you ever heard of Bye-bye arms?

0:14.5

That's when the flapping fat on the back of your arm keeps on waving, even after you've stopped.

0:20.0

My mom used to call her arms flopping fish,

0:22.4

and flabby arms are also known as lunch lady arms, quail flanks, and bingo wings. Thank you,

0:28.2

Urban Dictionary. But regardless of what we call them, the fat on the back of your arms can be

0:34.4

an annoying reason for avoiding t-shirts and tank tops. So in this episode, you'll

0:39.0

learn how to tone the back of your arms and discover the best arm toning workout. The muscles

0:44.6

on the back of your arms are called your triceps. And in anatomy, the technical term is actually

0:49.8

triceps break eye, which is the Latin word for three-headed muscle.

0:55.0

Though this seems to make your triceps sound like some kind of fairy tale monster,

0:59.0

the reason for this name is that the triceps are comprised of three different muscle bundles

1:04.0

on the outside, middle, and inside of the back of your arms.

1:08.0

Because the tricep has three different muscles, simply doing one exercise is typically not enough to tone the back of your arms. Because the tricep has three different muscles,

1:11.4

simply doing one exercise is typically not enough to tone the back of your arms.

1:16.0

Instead, you need to come at that three-headed monster from as many angles as possible,

1:21.0

using a variety of exercises and hand positions.

1:24.6

In the quick and dirty tips video, tone the back of your arms, which I'll link to

1:29.3

in the show notes. I demonstrate two exercises with a gym stick. I demonstrate the overhead tricep

1:36.5

extension and the narrow grip chest press, but there are many additional exercises that also work

1:43.0

well for the back of your arms, including

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