Understanding how to properly perform arm exercises for women is absolutely critical if you want to achieve sexy arm stardom. It’s very easy to hide butt, hip or leg fat. But not so easy to hide arm fat. Not to mention all the clothes you can’t wear if you have too much arm flab.

In fact, you might as well throw away all those spaghetti strap tops you have hiding in the back of your closet. What happened to the arms you used to have as a twenty-something?

Well, I was in this “situation” for the majority of my life. But I had it bad, because sexy arms eluded me even as a twenty-something. And I spent countless hours doing every single workout program and spent countless money on everything under the sun.

You can learn from my mistakes and expertise. I don’t want you to waste all the time that I wasted. Here are some things to look out for when learning about arm exercises for women:

1. You can’t spot reduce. It’s true that you can’t selectively lose arm fat from only one area in your body. However, arm fat is only part of the equation. Moreover, I’ve seen countless women lose tons of fat and still not have toned arms. The key is to focus on tightening the arm muscle, and on changing the amount of water and carbohydrate within the muscle.

2. Push-ups are an excellent exercise for the back of the arm. Most of the push-up movement targets your chest, not your arms. Does it make sense to spend time doing an exercise that doesn’t tighten up your arms? Of course not! I cringe every time I hear an “expert” claiming that this is one of the best arm exercises for women.

3. Dips are excellent. Correct, dips are excellent for destroying your shoulder! Do them long enough and your AC joint (where clavicle meets acromion) will eventually wear out. This movement puts your shoulder in a very unstable position.

4. Triceps kick-backs are great for toning. Triceps kick-backs are the single most overrated exercise. Your time is much better spent doing other exercises. The problem with kick-backs is that they don’t allow you to add on a lot of weight because of the position your body is in. And you need a lot of weight to get toned arms as quickly as possible.

With the above tips you should be able to better navigate all the advice out there about arm exercises for women. Getting sexy arms is not that difficult, but sifting through all the advice is. Good luck!