Little Black Dress Arms Video

Hi guys, I'm Teri Ann with ExerciseTV and this is your Little Black Dress Arms workout. I've created 10 of my favorite upper body exercises to help you feel confident in your little black dress because I know in college you have a lot of formals that you need to dress up for, and I want you feeling great. We're gonna start up with some standing exercises. You're gonna do 15 reps of each of the standing exercises. Now, we all know what a biceps curl is. Number 1 is just a regular biceps curl, but you're gonna think about squeezing the muscle at the top. Think-- Really think about squeezing your biceps because then you will contract it just a little bit harder. Number 2: You're gonna flip your palms to the back of the room, and you're gonna give me a front raise, squeezing the top of your shoulders. Just like that. Dropping your shoulders away from your ears, you have a front raise. Number 3: You're gonna give me a lateral raise, dropping your shoulder blades down your back, you come up and down, keeping your shoulders away from your ears, working the middle part of your shoulders. Number 4: Putting it altogether, you just have one big shoulder full circle. Just like that. Number 5: You bend your arms then at 90 degrees. It's just like we did with the lateral raise, only this time your arms are a little bit bent, working just a little bit harder through the shoulders. You're gonna hold it up. Number 6 is just arm kick out. Kick your arms out and bring them back in. Kick them out and in. Now, this time, I want you to think about squeezing your triceps. This is also working your shoulders, but if you really focus on your triceps, you really squeeze that muscle. You're gonna put your weights down. Come down to the floor. Number 7 is a regular push-up. We all know what that is; only I'm gonna change the tempo just a little bit. We're really focusing on the chest now. You're gonna give me 3 counts down, 1 count up. Just like this. 3, 2, 1, push through the chest. 3, 2, 1. One more time, 3, 2, 1, and push-up. So your chest is supposed-- is gonna be burning after that. You're gonna give me 8 of those and then we're gonna do crossing push-ups. I'll show you. Come up, feet are hip-width apart. You're gonna come into diagonal. Give me one push-up, crossover. One push-up, crossover. One push-up and crossover. Just like that. So that's gonna focus on your chest just a little bit more because when you have to push-up the floor, you're working just a little bit harder through the chest. We have 2 more exercises to go. Come in on to your knees, come up into a push-up position, only this time lock your hands in so they're close to your body. You're gonna give me a triceps push-up, pushing through your triceps, keeping your elbows as close as you can to your body. So then we'll get rid of all of that stuff that jiggles. Last exercise is just gonna be a plank. So this also works your core and your arms. Suck in your belly button into your spine, come up and hold. So this is at the very end of the workout. I want you to just hold it for 1 minute. Do all those 10 exercises and you will feel confident in that little black dress. I'm Teri Ann with ExerciseTV.