I Do The Details

It’s TRAINER TUESDAY TIME..By Mike Peritore.

I don’t do much with wedding dresses and what color napkins best accentuate the flowers (ask my wife) - but I do know a little something about those jiggly arms that hang out the side of your dress.  Yes, everyone notices… primarily because you stand kinda funny trying to hide them.

You see, besides all of the makeup and the insane hairdo, the next most noticeable thing that makes you really stand out in a dress - is the shoulders and arms.  Most wedding dresses expose them quite a bit - so let’s take advantage of the situation and blow out arms like Madonna.

The order of operations goes a little something like this:

1) Upper back
2) Shoulders
3) Triceps
4) Biceps

Upper Back
Most of you probably spend your 9 to 5 perched over a desk.  That being said, your posture is probably horrible and your back is hunched.
To help remedy this, here are a few great exercises to make your upper back look stellar.
* Seated rows
* Bent over 2 dumbbell row
* Wide-grip lat pulldown

Shoulders
The next body part that can really compliment strapless… or heck, even the straps.
* Seated shoulder press
* Front dumbbell raises 
* Side lateral raises

Triceps
Even though most people flex their biceps to show off their guns - the arms are mainly comprised of the triceps.
Having this muscle group strong and defined will fend off the underarm batwing.
* Dumbbell triceps extension
* Bench dips
* Tricep dumbbell kickbacks

Biceps
You might want to put your phones on vibrate, they’re gonna be ringing off the hook for tickets to the gun show!
* Dumbbell bicep curl
* Incline dumbbell curl

You see, there is nothing too fancy here.  Standard gym equipment.  The secret sauce here is to get the biggest bang for your buck when exercising.  That being said, if you split up your body parts over multiple workouts - try to keep your “push” exercises together.  That would be your shoulders and triceps.  My recommendation is to always hit shoulders BEFORE triceps - as you are already doing tricep work when doing shoulder presses. The same goes for back.  Always do the back BEFORE biceps. 

To prevent burnout, only pick 2 back exercises and 1 bicep exercise - as well as 2 shoulder exercises and 1 triceps exercise. Mixing up the exercises will keep your body guessing and have a harder time adapting to the challenge - always improving! If you feel you need to throw another exercise in there, throw in some pushups or pullups.  As basic as they are - they also strengthen your core.

And because you all are pushing the donuts away at the office, I don’t have to remind you of the importance of the diet…right? Of course not - you already know that all the curls, extensions or presses in the world wont be noticed under a layer of lard.

Get after it!