Spot strength training to firm up your breasts, arms or any other muscle group will not work. You need a full body strength training program that you do at least 3 days a week. And, proper nutrition cannot be ignored. This will start the fat burning process for your total body.
You can do extra work on problem areas. Below is a discussion on extra work you can do to help firm up your chest area, breasts and flabby arms:
1. Firm up your breasts and give them better shape with the chest press on ball (incline chest press on ball and fly press on ball is also great). Research and my personal experience using this exercise with women clients has proven that there is more muscle activation in the chest area when the chest press is done on a stability ball.
Your breasts are made up of fatty (adipose ) tissue, so their size depends upon how much fat you store there. Genetics, your weight, your health and your age also play a part in breast firmness and size. The muscles directly underneath your breasts are called the pectorals. Your pectoral muscles are partly responsible for the firmness of your breasts.
The only way to significantly improve your breast size is through surgery or weight gain. But, you can make your breasts firmer by working your chest-area muscles and burning fat. To me, this is the better option for now and later on in life (to avoid the sags as much as possible). Include the chest press on ball for your chest, arms and front shoulders.
2. What about flabby arms (grandmother arms)? You can burn the fat on those flabby triceps (back of the upper arm). It just takes some consistent strength training.
If you want to do some extra work to tone your triceps and arms in general, try this strength training circuit:
–Pushups on medicine ball, 10 repetitions
–Standing dumbbell shoulder press, 10 repetitions
–Standing dumbbell hammer curls, 10 repetitions
–Tricep dips on bars, 10 repetitions
–Standing dumbbell overhead tricep extensions, 10 repetitions
–Bentover dumbbell tricep kickbacks, 10 repetions
Repeat this circuit 2 more times.
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