6 Effective Exercises To Help You Lose Arm Fat

Want to lose all the flab on your arms and try to sport fab arms? New Woman tells you the way you can do that. A fatty or flabby arm is a condition which mars the physical appearance of a person. Even though that person has a beautiful figure, the fatty arms just destroy the whole look. New Woman shares with you the list of do at home exercises that will help you to lose the arm fat. We get it: You're busy! Career, family, friends, travel, that book club pick you still haven't checked out of the library (much less finished). With all that's going on, it can be tough to make time to hit the gym. Thankfully, you donít need to go to the gym to achieve fabulously toned arms. Below are some of our favorite arm exercises for women that will help you tone your arm muscles and lose arm fat without weights ó on your time. Say goodbye to flabby arms!

One Arm Triceps

This exercise helps to burn the accumulated fat in the triceps, the back portion of the arms. For this exercise, you do not need any equipment. Directly on the floor you can perform it.

- Sit on the floor by keeping your legs and feet joined together.
- Keep your hands on the floor shoulder width apart and a foot behind the hips. Your fingers should point the hips.
- Bend your knees and keep the feet flat on the floor.
- Straighten your arms and raise your hips. This will put weight on your arms.
- Bend your left elbow and with the help of right arm which is still straight, lower your hips to the floor. Ensure not to touch the floor.
- Now repeat the same move with the other arm.

Triceps Dips

This exercise also helps to give you a pair of super sexy toned arms by working on the triceps. You can perform this exercise at home with the help of a 2 feet height chair or desk.

- Place the chair or the desk in a stable position.
- Stand in front of the chair by keeping at least 3 feet distance.
- Turn your back and place your hands on the chair or desk.
- The hands should be shoulder width apart.
- Move forward with 3 to 4 steps away from the chair or desk.
- Straighten your upper body and bend the knees to be in line with the chair or desk height.
- Now bend your elbows and lower your body as low as to the ground.
- Come back to the normal position.
- Performing 3 sets of 20 repetitions every day will help you to lose arm fat effectively.

Lateral Plank Walk

Like the one arm triceps exercise, lateral plank walk also tones the muscles of the arms by melting the accumulated fat in the arms.

- Lie on the floor on your stomach and then take the plank position by keeping your hands shoulder-width apart on the floor.
- Keep your legs and feet joined together.
- Your fingers should point outwards and your body should be in one straight line.
- Move and keep your right hand on the left and move your left foot towards left.
- Follow the same moves with the left hand and right foot.
- Return to the initial plank position.
- Pull your abs towards your spine and pelvis.
- Reverse the direction and take 3 steps to the right.

Push-up

This help you enormously to tone your upper arm by burning the fat in that area. The good thing about this resistance exercise is that to perform it you do not need dumbbells, barbells or other equipmentís.

- Lie on the floor on the stomach.
- Now take the push-up position by keeping your feet together. - Keep your hands apart wider than the shoulder width. Your elbows should be straight.
- Now bend your elbow and move your body towards the ground. Make sure that your stomach should not touch the ground.
- Do 3 sets of 10 repetitions every day to give a firm and toned look to your arms.
- You can do open push-ups by keeping your hands wider than the shoulder width and close push-ups by placing your hands close to each other.

Wrist Rotation

This is one of the simplest yet effective exercises that can help to lose arm fat if performed regularly. For this exercise, you need 2 half a kilogram weight (2 half-litre water bottles).

- Stand straight and hold the half a litre water bottles in both the hands.
- Now, rotate your palms by holding the water bottles in clockwise first and then anti-clockwise.
- Perform this exercise for 60 seconds for each rotation.
- This exercise can help to burn the deposited fat in the arm area if done regularly.

Scissors

Scissors is an effective cardio exercise, which can help you to lose arm fat and make them look toned and firm. It is named so as this exercise resembles a pair of scissors, which is being and opened continuously.

- Stand straight and keep your hands straight in front of you in shoulder height.
- Now, stretch them to the sides and then bring back in front of you so that both the arms overlap each other like a pair of scissors.
- Go back to the initial position and repeat the moves at least 20 times a day.
- Perform this simple but effective exercise at least 15 to 2o minutes to tone up your arms by burning the deposited fat in that area.