|
Category Sitemaps
Weight loss
Diet
Food
Calories
Exercise
Losing weight
Weight loss help |
What Causes Flabby Arms?
The
cause of flabby arms is often due to gaining too much body weight overall.
As we gain more fat weight, our body needs to find areas where more excess
fat can be stored. And because we have fat cells all over the body, fat will
inevitably be stored around the arms.
Generally we have fewer fat cells around the arms and extremities of the
body, but as the body stores more and more fat around the main areas such as
the stomach, thighs, chest and back, it starts to add more to the arms, neck
and face to balance the shape of the body. Ever wandered why it’s rare to
see a big, heavy person that has gained a large amount of body fat with very
wiry, thin arms?
Where our body first decides to store the excess fat is mainly down to
genetics. If your whole family tends to store more fat around the thighs,
then there’s a high probability that you’ll store fat on the thighs more
than any other area. Therefore, if one of your parents or grandparents has
saggy arms then there’s a good chance you could also suffer with too much
flab around the arms, especially if you gain too much weight. The exception
to this rule is if you tend to follow your other parent for physical
characteristics, and they don’t suffer from this problem at all.
Some people naturally store fat around the arms, but in most cases, it will
mean they’ll often have a large amount of fat all over the body. It’s highly
unlikely someone will have very flabby arms but remain fairly lean elsewhere
on the body. As stated in an earlier paragraph, the body often balances its
excess fat stores all over the body.
How to get rid of saggy arms
The best
way to get rid of saggy arms is to reduce your overall body fat levels. As
body fat percentage is reduced, it will eventually reduce the saggy fat
around the arms as well. If exercises for the arms are also included, the
muscles will tone up and give the arms a leaner appearance. Building a
little arm muscle will also cause the cells to use up the fat around the
arms to help eliminate flabby arms.
You should not attempt to rely on spot reducing alone to
remove fat from the
arms. Just doing arm exercises alone will not reduce the flab around the
arms. You may get some toning, but the flabby arms will return once you
finish the arm exercises. You really should be looking at going all out, by
following a calorie-controlled diet as well as full body workouts which will
first reduce overall body fat percentage.
Exercising to Tone Arms
Small Waist Exercises
You must seek approval from your doctor
before starting any new diet.
Please read our
Terms!
|
|
