Toning Arms

zebidee

Would appreciate anyones honest advice on this.

I have bingo wings and just wondering what is the best way to try and get rid of them and how long before you start to see a result.

I am 59kg, 5 4'3.

I have weights of 2kg.Are these ok and what workout should I do with them?

Also I am guessing as many pushups a day that I can manage.

I have just joined a gym

Thanks in advance

Shoota

Hey Zebidee,

Well theres lots of great advice in the stickies (up the very top of the fitness page) and depending on what gym your in (IMHO ) you should ask for a program from one of the staff, and tell the instructor exactly what you want to get out of it. (specify your arms obviously)

Personally from my experience I've been going to the gym for about a year and 8 months, the first year I got nothing out of it, no improvements whatsoever, as I had no program I was just waltzing around pretending to myself I was working hard and achieving nothing. I've been on a program, been monitered every 6-8 weeks since the start of January and the difference has been huge!

Hope this helps a little,
Good luck! :pac:

corkcomp

zebidee wrote: »

Would appreciate anyones honest advice on this.

I have bingo wings and just wondering what is the best way to try and get rid of them and how long before you start to see a result.

I am 59kg, 5 4'3.

I have weights of 2kg.Are these ok and what workout should I do with them?

Also I am guessing as many pushups a day that I can manage.

I have just joined a gym

Thanks in advance

can you post your current daily diet in FULL? If you want to loose the bingo wings then you need to be looking towards diet rather than pushups! You need to drop body fat so ideally use a combination of good diet, resistance exercise and enough cardio ...

zebidee

7.45am Breakfast: Cornflakes with low fat milk (Im guessing porridge maybe better)

1.00pm Lunch: Tuna wrap with tomatoes and sweetcorn and apple/orange

6pm Dinner:
-Fish/Chicken with veg and boiled potatoes
-Chicken Stirfry



Snacks: Cream crackers, sometimes
two biscuits or a fun size twix bar.

corkcomp

zebidee wrote: »

7.45am Breakfast: Cornflakes with low fat milk (Im guessing porridge maybe better)

1.00pm Lunch: Tuna wrap with tomatoes and sweetcorn and apple/orange

6pm Dinner:
-Fish/Chicken with veg and boiled potatoes
-Chicken Stirfry



Snacks: Cream crackers, sometimes
two biscuits or a fun size twix bar.

op, the items highlighted in bold need to go if you want to drop the love handles! Have porridge for breakfast, fruit as snacks and lots of tuna + salad for lunch and veg + meat for dinner. If you must eat after dinner have an apple or some cottage cheese or ryvita ..

zebidee

Thanks. What weight do you think I should be for my height?

Also any advice in regard to training outside of the gym?

Im ready for your ans

corkcomp

zebidee wrote: »

Thanks. What weight do you think I should be for my height?

Also any advice in regard to training outside of the gym?

Im ready for your ans

hi, your probably around the correct weight for your height, dont aim to lose more than 2 or 3 KG IMO ... if you can get a BF test done it would be a better indication ... just be as active as possible, walk, stairs, do push ups at home and other body weight exercises ..

nice_guy80

corkcomp wrote: »

op, the items highlighted in bold need to go if you want to drop the love handles! Have porridge for breakfast, fruit as snacks and lots of tuna + salad for lunch and veg + meat for dinner. If you must eat after dinner have an apple or some cottage cheese or ryvita ..

i'm in trouble so. love cream crackers smothered in philidelphia, and rich tea biscuits...

her diet doesn't seem too bad. she just doesn't say how often she eats those things as snacks. does she make the wrap herself, or from a shop?

simply: eat better, 30 mins of exercise daily.

Dovers

zebidee wrote: »

7.45am Breakfast: Cornflakes with low fat milk (Im guessing porridge maybe better)

1.00pm Lunch: Tuna wrap with tomatoes and sweetcorn and apple/orange

6pm Dinner:
-Fish/Chicken with veg and boiled potatoes
-Chicken Stirfry



Snacks: Cream crackers, sometimes
two biscuits or a fun size twix bar.

Youre not eating nearly often enough. There is 5 hours between your meals so its not surprising you are snacking. Try to eat small healthy meals more regularly. Maybe a mid morning break and an afternoon break (no rubbish). You will be less likely to have a huge dinner then yet your hunger will be satisfied. Drink lots of water too aim for 2-3 ltr daily

zebidee

Thanks, I will put the eating habits advice into practise.

Anyone any advice on any more specific excerises? Thanks

Dovers

zebidee wrote: »

Thanks, I will put the eating habits advice into practise.

Anyone any advice on any more specific excerises? Thanks

Well your diet should be your number one focus combined with a regular cardio/weights programme. If your diet is not spot on you can do "toning" exercises until the cows come home but you wont get the results you want. ask one of the trainers at the gym for a cardio/ beginners weights programme, thats what you pay your membership for

BossArky

Dovers wrote: »

Youre not eating nearly often enough. There is 5 hours between your meals so its not surprising you are snacking. Try to eat small healthy meals more regularly. Maybe a mid morning break and an afternoon break (no rubbish). You will be less likely to have a huge dinner then yet your hunger will be satisfied. Drink lots of water too aim for 2-3 ltr daily

+1

drdeadlift

zebidee wrote: »

Thanks, I will put the eating habits advice into practise.

Anyone any advice on any more specific excerises? Thanks

The hardest thing for you now will be your diet and keeping it in check.
Get onto youtube and look at various different arm movements you can do using dunbells for both the bicep and tricep muscle.
It would be a good idea to join a gym,sure if your going to get your arms in shape it would be silly to forget about the rest of your body.

Good reading here(its not a total meathead site either)

www.bodybuilding.com

zebidee

Thanks for all the replies. I will put all those into practise and I am focused on toning up the whole body. Also someone asked, I make the wrap myself.

Dovers

Good work, best of luck