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Do you want the perfect butt? Maybe yours is too large. Or too small. Perhaps a little bit droopy. Even downright saggy. What are you going to do? You are going to have to do the best butt workout you can find.

No matter what, you’re going to have to exercise the full complement of muscles in your posterior.

Secret Number 1: Knowing what you are dealing with…

The best butt workout relies on the fact that you’re hip to your butt. See, your backside really consists of three major muscles. You already know about the gluteus maximus. Did you know that there’s a gluteus miniumus? What about the gluteus medius?

Secret Number 2: You can’t work just the easy ones…

Working just your glutes won’t cut it. You will have to work the complementary muscles, too. Huh? Well, think about it this way. When you work your arms, you work both the biceps AND the triceps. When you work your legs, you develop your hamstrings along with the quadriceps.

Secret Number 3: You have to work all of them…  Read more...

Knowing how to do arm exercises for women the right way is important because it’s not easy to hide extra arm jiggle. If you have floppy arm flab, your clothing selection will be severely limited.

Unfortunately, most women do not know how to get toned arms and all those sexy tops they have simply remain in the closet. But there is a way, and I am going to show you the way.

Well, I was in this “situation” for the majority of my life. But I had it bad, because sexy arms eluded me even as a twenty-something. And I spent countless hours doing every single workout program and spent countless money on everything under the sun.

Please learn from my mistakes! Here are some common misconceptions about arm exercises for women that you HAVE to look out for:

1. Spot reduction is impossible. While it is true that you can’t force specific areas of your body to lose fat first, you can change how your arms look with minimal fat loss. Fat loss is only part of the equation and in some cases not necessary. The key is to firm up the muscle with very specific weight training, and to manipulate the amount of water and carbohydrate within it.  Read more...

The only way to get consistent and continual results is by always making your workouts harder. There is no way around this.

But I have very good news for you. Using your emotions can make the process of constantly pushing yourself that much easier.

So here are 5 ways to take your workouts to the next level with your emotions:

1. Prime your psychological pump with routine: It will be much easier to tap into your emotions if you exercise at the same times week in and week out. You see, your body is more apt to release key substances if you have regularity in your workout regimen.

2. Use supplements: You don’t have to empty out your piggy bank here, all you need is a little caffeine, that’s it. Have a small dose of caffeine in tablet form about 45 minutes before exercise and you will get adrenal glands pumping out stress hormones as an emotional response.

3. Mentally agitate yourself: Now humans are very complex, you are very complex. So experiment with different methods here. Some people have success with meditation, others like to watch a motivational clip and others like to listen music. Pick the method that works best for you and use it right before exercise.  Read more...

There used to be a time when women only ate what was available in nature. I suspect that arm flab was probably not an issue back then.

Then came along the food industry and the marketing of magic-bullet diets.

Once big businesses caught wind of the profit to be made by selling food and diets, all the lies and misinformation starting hitting the air waves. Eating became very confusing for the average woman.

Perhaps one of the most influential fad diets of all time has been the high protein diet because it produces the fastest short-term weight loss of any other type of diet.

Nevertheless, consider the following 5 arm flab pitfalls of high protein diets before buying all those steaks:

1. Massive drops in energy: You can expect a significant decrease in mental output, and once in ketosis, the need to frequently sleep. Why does this happen? Because your body can produce energy 300% faster when being fed carbohydrates.

2. An inability to exercise hard: Without carbohydrates, exercise will be extremely painful and your ability to recover will virtually vanish. Your body needs carbs to efficiently produce its energy currency, ATP.  Read more...

There is no doubt here: excess fatness is eroding the health of our country. Even worse, excess fatness is directly related to a wide range of extra diseases.

And the facts don’t lie: a lot of the leading causes of death in our country are associated with being overweight. So getting in shape is vital for a healthy life.

And the key to getting in shape the right way is to have a balanced exercise plan. After all, if you go too far in any single direction, you can get diminishing returns.

So here is how to balance your exercise routine:

1. Cardiovascular conditioning: Working your cardiovascular system is a great way to maintain and even increase the health of your heart. You see, working your heart with cardiovascular exercise makes it bigger and stronger. And a bigger and stronger heart will lower your heart rate and blood pressure.

2. Resistance training: But don’t worry, you don’t have to become a power lifter in order to see benefits. In fact, the best approach here is to pick a program that fits with your type of personality. After all, if you enjoy what you are doing, you are more likely to stick with it.  Read more...

Do you know what the best arm exercises for toning are? Ask a couple fitness buffs and you’ll get a different answer from each one. Could this get any more confusing?

If the experts have different opinions, how are you supposed to form an opinion? As you can see, this can get very very challenging to say the least.

So to help you out, I am going to be reviewing a bunch different arm exercises for toning. This should help clear up some of the confusion.

My analysis of different arm exercises for toning should save you a substantial amount of time. Today I will be reviewing dumbbell curls:

1. Fast-track description. This exercise works the biceps which is the first muscle people see on your arm when greeting you from the front. Its strength lies in the ability to use full ranges of motion. This gives you a better bang for your buck.

2. Exercise technique. Grab a dumbbell with each hand and stand erect with your palms facing inwards. Rotate one hand and bring the weight up in a controlled fashion. Slowly lower said weight and do this for the other arm.  Read more...

Is this a flabby upper arms joke? Nope. The truth is that you can lose arm fat without having to touch a weight.

The secret lies in spontaneous fat loss. This method of losing the flab is the easiest one out there, I promise.

Instead, it focuses on manipulating the tools you eat with (spoons, bowls, glasses), the environment you eat in and the types of foods you eat. And the arm fat melts away without any conscious effort on your part.

How do you spontaneously lose fat? Well, here are 4 things you can start doing today so that the flabby upper arms are gone by tomorrow:

1. Buy foods with labels from not-so-cool places. Studies have shown restaurant goers will unconsciously eat up to 500 fewer calories at dinner if they are presented with wine that comes from an undesirable wine-producing area. You have to be creative here, but it’s worth it.

2. Stick with slow digesting carbohydrates. Studies have shown that obese teenage boys will eat 621 fewer calories per meal if they’ve had slow digesting carbs earlier in the day. The slowest digesting carbohydrates on the planet are legumes and vegetables.  Read more...

Bingo wings are devastating for any woman. Not only do they restrict the types of clothes you can wear, but they can also make you very self conscious.

And if poor sleep is commonplace for you, reducing bingo wings can be virtually impossible. Why? Because poor sleep has metabolic and hormonal effects that make arm fat loss very difficult for the female body.

To be brutally honest here, poor sleep could potentially ruin any arm-toning efforts on your part. It really is that important.

So here are some sleep tips to help you get rid of those bingo wings:

1. Get some light. Not just any light will do here. I recommend getting a light box which will produce very high intensity light. There are many companies that sell said lights. Use it in the morning for 30-60 minutes. You’ll notice an increase in energy and a sense of hyperness. And you’ll sleep much better.

2. Chronotherapy. If you’re going to sleep extremely late and you find it impossible to wake up early, then you’re better off rotating forward. Sleep three hours later every day until you hit the right time. Then force yourself to wake up at the same time every day or else you’ll keep going forward.  Read more...

Protein is essential for any effective arm toning program. It plays so many important roles in the female body that close attention has to be given to its management. After all, a lack of protein quality and quantity will set back your sexy arm mission by leaps and bounds.

Unfortunately, not all sources of protein are beneficial.

Unfortunately, some sources of protein are very bad for you. So without further delay, here are 5 bad types of protein to stay away from when arm toning:

1. Farmed salmon. The research is clear here: farmed salmon has significant amounts of toxins and carcinogens. Although more expensive, you should stick to wild salmon for long-term health.

2. Deep-fried meats. Anything that is deep fried will most likely have an excess of fat. And if you don’t watch out, it’s most likely going to be bad fat. Moreover, if you inhale the fumes when deep frying food you increase your risk for lung cancer. Not good!

3. Charred meats. We love big grills and big barbecues. Unfortunately, all those black and crunchy edges of meat increase colon cancer risk. So stay away from any type of meat that has been cooked to the point of blackness.  Read more...

Knowing which exercises to include in an arm toning workout is just as important as knowing which exercises not to include. After all, some of the most highly recommended exercises for getting rid of flabby arms are very dangerous.

Why does this happen?

The truth is that, in this case, tradition has clouded common sense. It’s all too common for women to blindly do what the so called experts have been recommending.

Luckily for you, I’ve done all the research and I’m ready to share my findings. Why? Because I believe that getting sexy and toned arms shouldn’t involve the risk of injury.

So without further delay, here is my review of triceps kickbacks for getting toned arms:

1. Summary: This is probably the most overrated triceps exercise out there. Seriously. I think this exercise is a waste of time for two main reasons. First, exercising one arm at a time is extremely inefficient. Second, you can’t use heavy weights when doing this exercise. And heavy weights are critical for the fastest arm toning.  Read more...