I can remember so many great holidays when all
of my brothers and sisters and cousins loved
to get together at grandma's house. There is
always something special about grandma and going
to see her make Christmas, Christmas, because
she was so loving and fun and sweet and because
she made the best cookies ever.
But every now and then some of us kids would
go to snickering when Grandma got excited
and started waving her arms around while talking
about something that stirred her up. Her lower
arms between her elbow and shoulder would
go to swaying back and forth that my mean
cousin Mark often remarked that we could make
a ride out of them. We called that part of
Grandmas body, "grandma arms."
Of course, grandmas are not the only women
who get "grandma arms". As children
we used the term interchangeably for our aunts,
parents or female teachers who got that characteristic
sway of loose muscle and skin in the triceps.
It seemed to be a classic sign that this is
an old woman, at least when you are 7 it is.
No wonder when we begin to see the first
signs of "grandma arms" in ourselves,
it can be a cause for emotions that range
between concern and wholesale panic. I recall
watching a movie with the beautiful actress,
Julia Roberts who to me is the poster girl
for youth and beauty and as she performed
a dramatic speech, I saw it. Even on the angelic
Julia Roberts I saw "grandma arms".
And she's Tinkerbelle!
The question is not if we are going to experience
the loss of muscle tone and sagging of muscles
that most women experience in their arms as
they age. The question is, what we are going
to do about it? If you are an active woman
who is committed to fighting the signs of
aging with a healthy and fit lifestyle, you
no doubt will start looking for additional
arm exercises for women to add to your workout
to combat this unsightly problem.
The good news is we can firm and tone our
triceps area but not the same way men do.
If a man just begins using free weights to
focus on the triceps for a few weeks, those
muscles will become hard and strong at any
age.
But that is the difference between the genders
and the difference testosterone makes in a
man's body. A successful program of arm exercises
for women will use a variety of toning and
strengthening exercises that are balanced
to workout the entire upper body. You cannot
just focus on exclusively on arm exercises
for women because the woman's body will never
"bulk out" like a man's body does.
By actively utilizing a workout program that
builds the arms, the shoulders, the upper
back, the abs and the pectoral muscles, the
overall firming will pull those sagging muscles
into conforming with the rest of your upper
body shape. This will reduce the incidence
of "grandma arms". But it will have
the additional benefit of enhancing your total
shape to make it firmer and more shapely which
is something we all can be happy about.
Work with your exercise trainer to focus
your workouts on swimming, rowing and specific
lifting exercises that integrate the triceps
into stretching and toning multiple muscle
groups at once. The outcome is you will be
healthier overall and you won't see one muscle
group get out of proportion to others which
is not only unsightly, its unhealthy.
But by being patient in gradually growing
stronger and better toned throughout your
upper body, you will be happy to see your
arms return to a similar shape as when you
were younger. Then when the kids come over,
they may not be able to be impressed with
your "grandma arms". But they will
still love your cookies.
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