Best Upper Body Workout for Women

As women, we can get caught up with how our butt looks. We can obsess about our waist and if our thighs are too thick. When do we ever worry about our arms? Wouldn’t you like to be able to wear a beautiful strapless dress or tank top with pride because you have lean, sexy arms and shoulders? We can’t forget about a tone workout for our upper body. Our butt, thighs, and waist are usually covered with clothes, but our arms and shoulders are bare quite often.

Shoulder Tone Workout For Women

There are a few great moves that you can do in just minutes that will help your shoulders look ravishing.

Push up with twisting plank
For this move, get into push up position. Perform a push up and then hold your body in the plank position. Twist your body to one side as you bring one arm up and point your hands to the ceiling. Return to regular plank position and perform another push up, then repeat the process with the opposite arm going towards the ceiling.

Reverse Flyes
This can be performed with weights or with an exercise band. Stand with the weights or one side of the band in each hand, with your arms extended out in front of you, palms facing each other. Using the shoulders in the muscles pull your arms apart from each other until your body forms a "T". Return to starting position and repeat.

Half Turkish Get Ups
First stand with your arms over your head. Keeping your arms over your head throughout the whole movement, get down on both knees and then stand back up. Repeat this process while you keep your arms up over your head.

Arm Tone Workout For Women

There are two muscles of the arm that need to be included in the tone workout; the bicep and the tricep. Here is one move for each:

Floor Pull Up
To perform this move you need a chair that you can slide under. Place your head under the chair and grasp the front of the seat of the chair with your hands. Keep your body straight like a board and pull your torso up towards the chair with your arms doing the work.

Chair Dips
With the same chair, sit down on the edge of the chair and grasp the chair on both sides of your body. Lift your butt off the chair and bring it forward. Bend your arms to lower your butt down until it is about 5 inches off the ground. Push back up to the level of the chair. Repeat without sitting back on the chair for desired amount of repetitions.

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