I'm a 48 years old woman and I have very little strength in my upper arms, what's a good exercise with weights
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Look at LHJ.com, it has some exercises on the website.  Start off by using light weights, then gradually go to heavier.  I'm using 5# weights, but you may want to go lighter.
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Pushups (modify to on your knees aka girl pushups) and tricep dips are 2 exercises that you can do without any equipment.  With light dumbells, you can do a lot of upper body weight lifting.  Although these exercises won't spot reduce your arms, they will build muscle.  It should help your arms look firmer and not so flabby.
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See this site under exercise for most efficient (most results with least time put in) exercises that you can do indoors.\n\nhttp://www.phifoundation.org
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Any exercise is good. :) Walking, biking, rowing, swimming are all fairly low impact and develop lean muscle.
808483
You mean you need free weights?  Try using water bottles or canned foods you have around the house.  I know it doesnt feel heavy when you just pick it up, but do three sets of 15 and then decide if it was heavy enough.  If it wasnt, go out and buy bigger bottles of water.  Also, you can get free weights from Target for just a couple dollars for each one.  Good luck.
945613
Get one of your dads shoes, and use like a dumb bell, just lift it up above your head and back down to your waist level.\nI bet you cannot do 200 with each arm!
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Dumbbells are good and don't take up very much space and are inexpensive (the ones with handles and removable plates). Get an adjustable bench to go with it, and you can get an excellent workout. \n\nBodyweight exercises are also very good. I just finished a routine doing nothing but pushups, situps, pullups, and squats (bodyweight). You can add some of these in with dumbbells to get more variety from your workout.
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Push-ups is an option but it gets really old really quick.  I would recommend getting a weight bench and doing bench presses with two free standing weights.  Not a bench press bar, but two solo weights around 10 to 25 pound each.  (depending how much you can handle.)\n\nWhen you lay down on the bench, push the weights up and inward so your hands start off side by side (seeing the back of your hands) and as you push up, turn your hands in (thumbs holding weight facing you, palms/weights against each other.)\n\nRemember; the lower the weight, the more reps brings toning of the muscle.  Higher weight, less reps brings mass & strength.\n\nHope this helps.
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Try this one it works.  Lay on or back arms out to side and knees drawn up. Put your feet together and make big figure eights in the air  with them. I know this sounds silly but it tightens those muscles. i mean swing your feet to the side down and then around and up and over to the other side. A big loop on each side.  do it every day as many as you can.
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Good for you for looking for simple bodyweight exercises - they're the  best ones for you from top to bottom.  \n\nI'd do flutter kicks.  Lay on your back and lift your feet up to 6-8" above the ground.  Then start kicking your legs up and down, keeping them straight, but never letting them touch the ground.  Do as many as you can.  This will work the lower abs and also your hip flexor muscles.  \n\nYou can also do Hello Dollys - they start similarly to flutter kicks but instead of kicking them up and down, you move your legs out to the side and back to center, always keeping them 6-8" off the ground.  Again, do as many as ou can.  \n\nMix the two together for best results. \n\nSince you're interested in bodyweight workouts, I've included a link to the best bodyweight exercise system I've ever seen.
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I suppose you mean the triceps which usually start sagging for women your age. One simple exercise is to sit on a sturdy chair ( with arms), stretch out your legs and raise and lower your body (butt)while leaning out of the chair base. Maintain your balance by taking support on the heels.  To start with do 5 reps and you can progressivelly increase this to a count of 20 reps. You should feel the tricep muscle getting worked. \nor\nbuy a pair of dumbells ( half kg or one kg) and   ( sorry it's difficult to describe this exercise without a picture. Do look up some tricep exercises with weights on the web)
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You can do some simple exercise at home that do not take a lot of time for this! \n\nFor the arms:\n\n1. Take two 5-7 pound weights\n2. in a sitting position, and with your back straight, rest both arms to your side, then slightly bend them(keep them parallel to your side) and do 15-20 curls 2-3 days per week!\n3. You should see results in about 2 weeks, but to get really toned, you will need to keep it up!
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There are a few things you can buy for that.  Hand grips and there's one called Mastergrip (I think) You hold it with your fingers and push down on it.  Also those stress balls may help.  They also make a kind of clay they use in Physical therapy to strengthen the muscles in your hands.
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do wrist curls with a curl bar.  Palms up and then palms down.  Do sets and increase your weight with each set, do as many reps as you can until muscle failure.  You will notice your forearms getting alot bigger, as this is really a great forearm workout, but it will strengthen the tendons and ligaments in your wrist, and your grip, combined this will give you a great strong fist.  Work hard and good luck.  I hope this helps.
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The one exercise that works the whole body but especially the arms is the full pushup, on your toes and hands. Do 3 sets of 15 each day when you get up in the morning. Hope this helps!
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Hello!\n\nWhile nine days is cutting it close, I do have a suggestion to help you trim your arms in the future.  There is a wonderful book called "Smart Girls Do Dumbbells" and it contains "recipes" of arm exercises to do each day for thirty minutes.  The exercises are REALLY effective, as I used to have the same kind of arms you describe and now they are slim and toned.  It took about three months, and I know that doesn't quite help you now but I wanted to share the title with you because it really worked for me.  I bought the book used through a seller on Amazon for about four bucks.  I'd definitely check it out.\n\nBest of luck to you!
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Bruce just live, exercise is part of normal life. if you don't move enough your body will not work well. even going to the toilet is funtioned by good movement. you must find a good motivation, walking, running, cycling, swimming, I am disabled to certain degree 30%, but I try to move as much as possable, walking in the mountains cycling along side a river. I have to go to hospital next week for a knee replacement in the right side, unyet I spent a week looking after a friends dog, in a high mountain, walking, and enjoying fresh air, since I know what movement I have now, I will have the benifit after my operation. you must not let your muscles fail at an early age, you will be worse as you get older. enjoy life, exercise also gets a control on depresion, which if you are not getting out enough, I would say you are suffering with. you will enlarge most muscles and blood supply, which I am sure you know you need to enlarge****