Get the Arms of a Goddess With Yoga

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Have you looked at your arms lately and asked the same questions that Cameron Diaz and Christina Applegate asked in the movie, “The Sweetest Thing?” She held her arm in the air and jiggled it and asked “What is that?” As the saggy skin under her arm flapped back and forth. Having the arms of a Goddess is one of the things that seems to be on every womans mind. Yoga can help.

Resistance exercises can develop short bulkier muscles which helps, but they are not the long, lean defined muscles that yoga can develop. If you want to develop ‘touchable arms’ Yoga classes will help as your muscles become graceful and fluid as they grow longer and ’show-off-able.’

The biceps, triceps and deltoids are the most visual muscles in the arm and focusing on poses that engage these muscles will help to create a more defined and ’strappy’ look. In the age-old Vinyasa Flow where you use the  Salute to the Sun, you will work and engage the upper torso and arms to full capacity. In almost every Yoga pose you are working your arms, and many engage the natural resistance of your own body weight as you flow from one movement to the other.

Some Yoga poses that can activate your arm and upper torso are:

• Salute to the Sun
• Chaturanga
• Downward Facing Dog
• Plank
• Warrior 2
• Shoulder Stand Pose (advanced)

So get yourself off to yoga classes girls and get ready to wear those strappy numbers you have been avoiding until now. You won’t regret giving Yoga a try and you just might find that you love it!

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