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The Guide to Real Women's Arm Toning 1

This is a five part series called The Guide to Real Women’s Arm Toning. This first part will look at the basics of arm toning. After that each post will look at a seperate muscle on the arm and its associated exercises and workouts. We will go through the shoulders, biceps, triceps and forearms.

(The full series is PART ONE, TWO and THREE, FOUR and FIVE.)

Introduction to The Guide to Women’s Arm Toning

Information on how to tone your arms is still the number one reason women come to Real Women’s Fitness. Everyday thousands of visitors search Google for arm toning workouts and exercises and wind up here. After all, there is little other place to go. Most other women’s websites are trying to make you join a community or buy a weight loss product.

Not here.

Seeing as arm toning seems to be so important to so many of my readers I wanted to follow on from the success of the All About Abs series with another series, this time focussing on women’s arm toning. The aim is to create a set of articles that women can use as the base of their arm toning workouts and on which they can base all further research.

Let’s get into it!

The basics of women’s arm toning

This first part of the series will be focussing on all the basics that one needs to know when starting out on the arm toning path. As I already mentioned, the purpose of these articles is to provide a basis and a starting point, not to act as a complete step-by-step path. I will highlight some important basics but it is up to you to go out and research further to complete your knowledge.

It is important that you take note of these basics and make sure they are etched into your mind. The basics form the core of your training path; muck them up and the rest will be mucked up too.

• Diet is still Queen for toning the arms

If you really want a set of toned and firm arms you need to appreciate the fact that diet is Queen. The bodybuilding saying usually referrs to diet as being King but seeing as this is a women’s fitness site I thought it would be a good idea to change that and start a new saying.

If you get your diet on track the rest of your arm toning progress will come so much easier. As I mentioned in this post, the way you eat influences how you train and more importantly affects the effectiveness of your workout. The classic example is the can of Coke. One can of Coke with lunch will take you about 30 minutes on the treadmill to burn off. Imagine if you replaced that Coke with a bottle of water - it would mean your gym time would bring much faster progress. That 30 minutes could be spent to achieve much better things.

Diet is also Queen because your body needs a certain type of fuel to function properly. Muscles only grow when there is good amounts of protein floating around so you should make sure you are getting enough every day. Similarly, if you aren’t eating enough quality energy foods you will find your gym workouts are slow and sluggish.

It is most important, however, to realize that it is diet that controls how much weight you lose. And this is an important arm toning point as you’ll now see in point number two.

• To tone your arms you must lose fat

Point one showed us that diet is queen but the reason why it is queen is because you need to burn fat if you want to have toned arms. And, it is diet that allows you to burn fat the fastest.

Many women have the misconception that toned arms are something you get by doing a certain style of weight training or exercise. They think the muscles are becoming tighter and firmer and it is this that makes them toned. Wrong.

Toned arms come about when you burn the fat that is covering the muscle. The muscles are always toned, they are just hidden at the moment. Now I am not saying weight training and exercise are not important, they are. But it is a healthy diet that will allow you to burn fat the fastest and thus tone your arms like you want.

• The right exercise is crucial

When toning your arms you need to make sure you are getting a good amount of the right kind of exercise. For example, you need to have a good fat burning cardio workout and you need to have resistance training that will allow you to develop your muscles. Without a combination of both your arms will not be toned for a long time. This series will look at the best resistance exercises for each muscle group as well as giving you a few cardio tips.

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Conclusion
That’s it for the basics and the introduction. In the next post we will get stuck into the juicy stuff - the exercises and workouts and tips for each muscle in your arm.

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