Alcohol is an excellent social lubricant. It decreases inhibitions, makes you less self-conscious and makes your personality a little more sociable. Some people can’t even socialize effectively without having a couple drinks first.
As with most things in life, unfortunately, there is a catch. Alcohol can singlehandedly ruing your goal to get toned and lean arms.
It does this through a variety of mechanisms:
1. It has a lot of calories.
2. It decreases self-control while simultaneously increasing appetite.
3. It shuts down fat-burning hormones in your body.
4. It disrupts sleep which in turn causes additional weight gain.
So the big question is, how do you reduce or even better, stop drinking alcohol? Well here are some strategies:
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Your hands perform countless tasks every single day. And having pain in your hands will not only limit quality of life, but it will also limit how much exercise you can do to lose arm fat.
Unfortunately, this pain can be quite severe because of the extremely complex and intricate architecture of your hands. They have a complex web of tendons, joints, ligaments, nerves and bones.
And each one of these is prone to injury and pain.
Arthritis and carpal tunnel syndrome are the most common sources of pain. So in this article, we’ll provide some tips on how to mitigate pain in your hands:
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If you’ve already read the first part of this guide on how to tone your arms, you know what causes a lack of arm tone, the different exercise modalities that can fix it, how to do an arm-toning workout, how to integrate cardio with weight lifting, how to eat, and how to measure your progress correctly.
If you missed the first part, make sure you read it before moving onto the more advanced, second part below.
Now if you follow the advice in the first part to the dot, you’ll be way ahead of the curve. However, as always, there are ways to boost results further.
So let’s review some techniques that will allow you to tone your arms faster.
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