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It may not seem like a go to exercise for impressive arms, but it builds great muscle foundation and helps burn fat, which will reveal your muscles underneath. Boxing for
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power involves tensing and flexing muscles for long periods of time, which can actually help exhaust muscles, which helps to make them grow.
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Despite the name, this exercise is great for arms. While not worked as hard as the chest, your triceps (the muscles on the back of your arm) and biceps (the ones
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on the front) will both be utilized during the movement. Since you are working these muscles in tandem with others, you will be gaining functional strength, which makes day to day
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heavy lifting a lot easier.
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This Michelle Obama workout also tackles muscles one on one. This exercise targets your triceps exclusively. They are great for ensuring that both sides of your arm are getting an equal
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These attack the triceps from a different angle. It's good to hit muscles from different angles so that your arms don't get used to do the same motion over and
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over. If your body adapts too much, it will stop improving itself.
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Bicep curls are great for attacking the front of the arms specifically. If you want to improve the strength on the upper half of your bicep, this is the exercise to try.
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These are very similar to the bicep curl, except they're done with your palms pointing in toward your body. This exercise targets the lower half of your bicep and will help balance
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the overall strength of your entire bicep.
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Start with boxing. Do it for three minute bursts, going all out, with 1 minute of rest in between. Follow this up with your incline chest press. You can do
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this exercise 3 times for 12 repetitions each.
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Follow up the first half of your workout with supersets. Pick a tricep exercise and a bicep exercise. Perform 12 repetitions back to back. Do this 3 times, take a 1 minute
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break, and then switch to the other 2 exercises you haven't completed yet.
Since the boxing raised your heart rate, supersets are a great way to burn a few more calories
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without adding more cardio. Keep this up and before you know it you'll have insane Michelle Obama arms!
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