Under arm jiggle? BE GONE!

Happy Tuesday! I hope everyone survived Monday with flying colors. After such a perfect sunny weekend it is always hard to get back into real life. Lucky for yours truly, I have the week off before starting my new work gig next Monday, so real life can be suspended for now. Being [temporarily] unemployed feels pretty amazing to be honest, my time is 100% under my control and I can eat, workout, nap, and play as I see fit! Sort of the life...if it wasn't for the fact that all my friends work normal jobs and I have no one to play with during the day. Boston is pretty dead during working hours. I was out on the river tanning/reading yesterday and I was legit the only person in sight. Apparently week day tanning isn't a big extracurricular around here. Whatever, I totally enjoyed myself. Trying to get as tan as humanly possible before I assume office job round 2.

I was thrilled to see the August issue of Oxygen in my mailbox this week. Seriously it is like the best mail EVER [except cards from my mom...I love those]. I saved it for my river tanning session yesterday, at which point I settled into my cozy towel and sweated my ass off while reading about buff women working out [it was like 95 and humid, awkward]. Each issue has 3 or 4 new workouts that focus on particular body parts of even specific muscles. This issue focuses on cable exercises for thighs and glutes, fitness testing, and, a personal favorite, how to combat UNDER ARM JIGGLE!

Under arm jiggle scares me. I will be completely honest. There is nothing more uncomfortable than when a woman raises her arm and waves to get someone's attention and your eyes are automatically drawn to the flap of skin/fat that is wiggling in your face. You don't want to stare. But you can't help it. Does she notice it? Are you a bitch for noticing? Unclear across the board. One thing I DO know, is I will never have under arm jiggle. It is a definitely no-go zone for this upper body. The editor of Oxygen, Robert Kennedy, provided a simple 4 move workout to ensure you are never that woman with the impossible-to-ignore under arm jiggle. Robert points out that under arm jiggle is not simply an overweight thing, it can happen to any woman at any weight. It is simply a result of too much body fat. 

Try this workout to tone up those under arms, after all, it IS tank top season! Take no rest between exercises 1 and 2, and 3 and 4. Even 30 seconds of rest decreases the effectiveness of the exhaustion effect, which is the driving factor of this workout. Do exercises 1 and 2, rest 60 seconds, and repeat for 3 sets. Take 2 minutes rest, perform exercises 3 and 4, rest 60 seconds, and repeat for 3 sets. I did this workout yesterday and my tris are on fire, woohoo!

Exercise 1: Cable pressdown x 12

Exercise 2: Bench dip [weighted if you are a beast] x 15

Exercise 3: Flat bench dumbbell extension x 12

Exercise 4: Close-grip bench press [narrow grip between 8 and 10 inches] x 15

Kiss that under arm flab goodbye! Paired with a clean diet, you will be golden. Enjoy!