ARMageddon (ok, I know it's not that creative)

Today was an arm workout for me... specifically biceps and triceps, but you can't really workout the bi's and tri's without also working other muscles because our muscles are all connected in one way or another! As a Taekwondo athlete since the age of 6, I have spent most of my life using lower body strength, which is probably why I love leg day so much because my legs are used to be worked really hard. For me, it is the upper body workouts that I dread the most because my upper body is my weakness, which is an even better reason to work it out! My upper body strength has been improving with every workout and the progress I can see and feel is amazing motivation. Today my weight training routine went like this...

Pull Ups
Bench Dips
Push Ups
Triceps Pushdown
21's  (7 reps from bottom to midway, 7 reps from midway to top, and 7 reps in the full range of motion)
Skull Crushers (I promise it only SOUNDS scary)

...And there you have it! An awesome workout to get you one step farther away from shapeless, "skinny-fat" looking arms, and one step closer to beautiful, strong arms! These exercises are easy to perform. There is nothing fancy or unusual about them, but you you don't have to stray far from the basics to get the results you want. There is no magical or secret workout that fit and healthy people are keeping from the world... It's just consistency and effort that make the difference between people who are successful in their fitness goals and those that seem to constantly be at battle with themselves. Just going to the gym, however, is only half of the equation to a healthy body. You can spend all the time and effort in the world at the gym, trying to sculpt every muscle, but if you leave the gym and stop at McDonald's on the way home, everything you just worked for has gone out the window. Diet and exercise go hand in hand. Diet without exercise or exercise without diet is like having a cell phone with no battery or a bike with only one wheel... IT JUST DOESN'T WORK! Flipping your world upside down and changing everything you have ever done is hard at first, but soon becomes a habit just like anything else  and the physical, mental, and emotional rewards you get from living a healthy lifestyle are going to by far outweigh those fast food meals you might miss.

<3 Health and Happpiness