Slimming down can feel like a challenge at the best of times, and even more so when targeting specific body parts, like the arms.
Also known as spot reduction, many fitness enthusiasts argue that losing weight in just one area of the body is impossible. Toning and sculpting, however, are achievable with a targeted regimen.
Taking to TikTok, one gym-goer recently demonstrated how she transformed her arms through a combination of exercise and a healthy diet.
Klaudia Kobiela stressed that while her comprehensive arm-toning routine helped her achieve optimal muscle definition, her results required more than just targeted exercises.
Klaudia stressed the importance of a healthy diet
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The regimen she follows combines lateral raises, bent-over rows, and deadlifts to get the arms and shoulders in shape.
She kicks off the routine with lateral raises to frontal raises, which are optimal for shoulder development and strength.
The exercise involves raising the weights out to either side of the body, then bringing the dumbbells together in front of the torso.
The benefit of this variation is that both positions target different parts of the shoulder to ensure a complete shoulder workout.
Next is bent over row to lateral rise, which offers increased strength as well as shoulder stability and mobility.
This contributes to arm toning by engaging multiple muscle groups in the upper body.
Deadlift to bent over rows target the back and leg muscles and contribute to overall strength, leading to definition in the arms when combined with exercises.
Bicep curl to overhead press is an effective workout for arm toning because it targets both the biceps and triceps, as well as the shoulder muscles.
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The exercises in Klaudia's routine target both the biceps and triceps
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Klaudia explained in the caption: “These exercises help me so much with how my arms look. It gives them a nice, toned shape that I didn’t have before.
“But if you want the muscle to show in the first place and reduce the fat, you need to lose fat. You lose fat by being in a calorie deficit. Eat less than you burn.
“There is no magic exercise that will make your body parts look a certain way. And also you can’t spot reduce fat. Your body decides where it loses fat.
“For me, it is my belly and my legs. My arms are last, unfortunately, so I need to work harder.”
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