3 Myths About Arm Toning That You Need To Know
January 17, 2010 by Louis Locke
Filed under Weight Loss
Internet marketers love making money with your desperation for getting rid of flabby arms. One bogus site even goes as far to claim that microbes living in your large intestine are to blame for excess arm fat.
If you do a quick Google search for flabby arms, you’ll instantly see all the marketing sharks out to make fast money. Many women are stuck in a whirlwind of confusion when it comes to the removal of flabby arms. One site even states that worms in your digestive tract are the cause for arm flab
The good news for you is that I’ve spent a large portion of my academic and professional career figuring out the best way to get sexy arms. And the conclusion is that getting rid of arm fat is not nearly as hard as many would lead you to believe. In fact, with the right approach it can be a fairly simple process.
Unfortunately, many women don’t know what the right approach is. They usually fall for the internet marketer’s web of promises and end up with smaller bank accounts and bigger arms. Here are 3 delusions you should avoid to help you escape the marketer’s grip:
1. Long bouts of cardio are great for toned arms. Long sessions of cardio will signal the release of cortisol from glands in your body. Over time, this hormone will eat away your precious muscle and your body will burn fewer and fewer calories. Eventually, you will NOT be able to burn any arm fat no matter how hard you exercise or diet.
2. Genetic Makeup. Doing arm-specific exercises and eating certain foods will control how your arms look, not genetics. Genetics influence the general structure of your arms to a very limited degree. In other words, you can change the composition of your arms at the structural level no matter what genes you may have inherited.
3. Low-fat. Going low-fat is the last thing you should do if you want sexy arms. Doing so will reduce your arm-fat-incinerating hormones by 30%. And your digestion rate will speed up which in turn will increase the amount of fatty tissue stored within your arms. So decreasing dietary fat, increases arm fat.
Were you believing any of these myths?
Now you have 3 flabby arms delusions to avoid so that the internet marketers stop emptying out your purse. Finding the right approach for getting toned and sexy arms doesn’t have to be a minefield. If something sounds too good to be true, then it probably is!
As long as you take action on this information soon and not later, you will be fine. Just make sure to take action today, not tomorrow!
Author Katherine Crawford M.S., a Harvard exercise physiologist and recent arm fat casualty, teaches women how to get rid of arm fat. Unearth how to get sexy and toned arms by exploring her blog about tricep arm exercises for women right now!
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