Tighten your Arms with an Isometric Exercise



Posted: Thursday, January 07, 2010

by Ellen Miller
isobreathing inc

This isometric exercise is geared toward those individuals who do not work out on a regular basis. You need to start somewhere and by using isometric exercises you are working against your own body weight verses weights. Most individuals starting a workout program using weights will tend to wake up with sore muscles.

With Isometric exercises you will be able to determine how much your body can handle. This specific isometric exercise will help you tighten up your under arm area.

Stand tall with your back touching a wall. Your arms are down at your sides with your palms touching the wall. The wall will now be your resistance. Push back on the wall with the palms of your hands. You will feel a tightening in your arms. Keep your elbows soft which means slightly bent and not stick straight.

An isometric exercise is getting a position - feeling your muscles tightening and then holding that position. The longer you hold that position the more intensely you will be working that muscle group. I personally recommend holding that position for 5 slow deep isobreathing breaths. That is equal to about 30 seconds. Then relax your muscles for one slow isobreathing breath and then go back into your isometric stance again and repeat for 2 more times.

These three rounds of isometric exercise will be equivalent to approximately

3 rounds of 12-15 repetitions.

By performing this isometric exercise on a daily basis one time per day all three rounds - in just a few days you will start to feel your muscles tighter and in approximately 3 weeks you will start to see a difference in your arms.

I find isometric exercise to be the kindergarten of exercise. You need specific body positioning so you can actually isolate muscles and feel them working properly. Isometric exercises help you get back to basics so eventually when you do lift weights for a work out variety you will know how your muscles should feel when being worked properly.

Ellen Miller is a certified Fitness Practitioner/Personal Trainer teaching for the past 25 years. Ellen writes for her monthly newsletter, New Orleans Wedding Magazine and North Shore Health and Wellness. Isobreathing has been nominated for Innovator of the year 2006 by New Orleans City Business. She has snippets at www.youtube.com/isobreathing. Ellen sells DVD's,CD's and
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