Exercises To Tone Your Body

By toning your upper body, you can increase your metabolic rate, gain strength, is also esthetically pleasing if you improve your appearance, prevent osteoporosis, it can make your waistline look smaller and also make you look slimmer.

When you exercise the upper back muscles you will be correcting the slouching posture. It is not only to make you look better, but it also helps prevent headaches, upper back pain, and neck pain.

Seated curls

If you adjust the angle of your elbow, seated concentration curls place a greater demand on your biceps than some other versions of the exercise.

You might notice you can’t handle as much weight with this version as you normally would use.

  1. Sit at the edge of a chair with your feet firmly planted on the ground and knees apart.
  2. With your back straight, lean forward a little and grab a dumbbell, then with your elbow against the inside of your knee lower the dumbbell.
  3. To return to the starting position slowly reverse the movement. Then, switch to the other arm after completing the reps in your routine.

Elbow plank

An adequately executed plank forces your back to keep straight while strengthening your core muscles to assist with an excellent posture.

  1. Put your body into a plank position on your forearms or elbows.
  2. Remain in the position, focus on keeping straight your hips and a flat back.
  3. Don’t allow your stomach to sag, shoulders to bunch up or tighten too much, and your glutes to pike up.
  4. Hold the plank for around one minute. Repeat once or twice, depending on your capacity.

Resistance band

A great new thing to weight training is resistance bands. Rubber resistance bands are economical, versatile, affordable, and portable. Also, you can purchase special attachments, which enable you to affix the band to a stable piece of furniture or a door jamb.

Resistance bands can be a good arms workout that will challenge your entire upper body. Any exercise that is done with weights can be changed to be done with bands. Try triceps or kickbacks extensions with the bands to strengthen and help tone flabby arms.