In the many looks that we see from the Queen Letizia Throughout the year, there are many in whom it is more than clear that sport is an essential part of their lives.
Dresses Red carpet that wears bare shoulders let us see that arms are one of the parts of your body that you train the most. Toned and strong, that’s what this part of her body looks like.
At 48 years old You continue to dedicate part of your time to staying in shape by paying attention to following a healthy nutrition and the practice of exercises yoga, cardio and weights.
It is easy to replicate some of Doña Letizia’s exercises, since she usually trains in a gym that has at home such and as reported by the newspaper El Español, and get toned arms without sagging trait with just five exercises.
The best exercises to reduce flaccidity in the arms
Push-ups, in all its variants
According to Vitónica experts, the best exercise to avoid sagging in the arms are the so-called push-ups with triangle hands. The key is that the hands will rest on the ground forming a triangle, with the index fingers touching at the upper angle of the triangle and the thumbs joined forming the base, as explained in detail.
Besides these, any variant of the push-ups It is effective to avoid flaccidity, from the inclined push-ups (those that you do, for example, resting your feet on the sofa and leaving your hands on the floor as in the photo above) to the tiger push-ups that work the triceps in a very intense way. and that are done by bending the elbows until they almost touch the ground, as shown in the video.
Dips or dips with a chair
For reduce flaccidity and gain muscle tone you can do a very simple exercise with a chair at home and with our own body weight, work the triceps. We stand with our backs to the chair and support our arms, stretching our legs in front of us. From the straight arms position we only have to go down bending the elbows.
Isometric biceps with a towel
This simple exercise is an isometric bicep curl that uses a towel, that we can hold between the feet or under a table for example. We bend the elbow with the towel held in hand until there is tension in the towel and hold for a few seconds. We release and repeat, that simple.
Have a version to be made with elastic with which we will also achieve, according to Vitónica experts, work the abdominal area. You don’t need to do it a set of elastic bands, for instance.
We can also carry out exercises by placing the towel in different arrangementsFor example, with the elbows close to the body and the towel held with both hands, we go up keeping the tension and stretching the towel as much as we can.
Shoulder raises with water bottles
To get toned shoulders we can use a couple of milk cartons or some water bottles to replace the dumbbells. With the arms along the body, and holding a bottle with each hand, we raise the arms straight sideways until they reach the height of the shoulders.
According to our Vitónica experts, the trick is to take a controlled route up and down to give more tension to the part worked and achieve greater and better results.
Two Bottle Bicep Curl
This classic exercise it is highly effective in preventing sagging. From Vitónica they explain to us what it consists of: “we will stand with our legs slightly apart and our knees slightly bent. The sword is kept upright and in each hand we will hold a bottle. The arms will remain attached to the trunk to target and target the biceps directly. ” We bend our elbows and raise both bottles to our shoulders, it’s that simple.
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