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Band It: Bicep Curls With Forward Lunges
Bicep curls are an essential strength-training move, but they can become boring after a while. So make them a little more challenging by adding lunges.
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Multitasking Move: Walking Squats With Bicep Curls and Overhead Press
If toning your tush and thighs is on your mind, then you've got to get busy doing squats. They target your lower body like no other move, and just after a few repetitions you'll start feeling the burn. Here's a variation on the basic squat.
Bicep Curl Rehab
One of the most common arm strengthening moves is the bicep curl. At any given point you can find someone doing bicep curls at the gym. Problem is, that at any given point you can also find someone doing them wrong by cheating.
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Multitasking Move: Balancing Hammer Curls
When you take a regular lifting move and add the challenge of balancing, it totally changes the dynamics of the exercise. Standing on one foot makes you use your abs and lower back, so you get more bang for your buck. Plus for this move, if you're used to doing traditional bicep curls, hammer curls will involve more of your forearms.
Get Lifted: Alternating Hammer Curls
Looking to tone up those arms? The Hammer Curl is a great way to work your biceps as well as your forearms.
To learn how to do the alternating hammer curl, read more
What Size Dumbbells to Use When
Dumbbells are an active girl's best friend because they're fairly inexpensive, compact, easy to use, and allow you to tone every part of your body. Using them can be a little confusing since they come in so many sizes, and many people may not realize that one size doesn't fit all exercises. For example, since biceps tend to be stronger than their neighbor muscles, the triceps, you'd want to use a heavier weight when doing bicep curls.
What Do You Work More, Your Arms or Your Legs?
When I work out on my own, I am all about lunges and squats — anything to work my legs. I might throw in a few biceps curls or some push-ups, too. When working with Hannah, my trainer at Equinox, we do a lot of upper body work — I feel like she has taught me every kind of push-up variation imaginable.
How Octomom Slimmed Down to 125 Pounds
Whatever your opinion of Nadya Suleman's decision to carry eight babies at once, most can agree that her quick slim-down is rather astonishing. When her octuplets were born nine months ago, Nadya weighed 270 pounds. In the latest issue of Us Weekly, she admitted she packed on the pounds by "eating everything in sight."
Get Lifted: Exercise Band Bicep Curls
Here's another video for you to watch and try. This one focuses on the biceps. I'm looking forward to "tank top weather" coming this spring and summer.
DVD Review: Weight Loss — Cardio Kick
Although I'm not a huge fan of DVDs that have the words "weight loss" on the cover, I did love the Weight Loss — Cardio Sculpt video I reviewed a while back.
Here's another video from that series called Weight Loss — Cardio Kick ($15). This DVD follows the same format of a few minutes of cardio, and a few minutes of strength training with weights, so it goes by really fast.
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