08 Sep 5 Minute Beginner Chair Workout for Upper Body – VIDEO
5 Minute Beginner Chair Workout for Upper Body
I get so many questions on how to tone arms and get a stronger upper body. In this quick video, I share a 5 minute beginner chair workout for your upper body. You can get the BEST of my body sculpting chair workouts on my new full Body Beginner DVD chair workout HERE.
5 Exercises you can do using a chair to work your upper Body!
EXERCISE #1 – Tricep Dips
Feel free to use a bench if you don’t have a sturdy chair. If you are advanced, keep your legs out straight. If you are a beginner, you will want to keep your knees bent with your feet flat on the ground.
EXERCISE #2 – Tricep Walkouts
With your palms on the chair and fingers pointed forward, you will want to walk your feet all the way out as far as they can extend and walk them back in. Leave that butt off the chair!
EXERCISE #3 – Plank
This is just your regular plank, only from a chair. With your forearms on the chair and your body aligned, hold this position. You don’t want to let your tummy drop or back arch.
EXERCISE #4 – Plank Variation
This is a great one for your oblique’s and core. You will want to bring your knee in to meet your opposite wrist and continue alternating sides.
EXERCISE #5 – Tricep Shimmie
With your hands on the chair, drop your elbows down so that your chest is hovering over the chair and shimmie (lean your body) forward. Come back the same way and repeat!
This is what you’re going to do! You are going to do each exercise for one minute, taking very few breaks. If you want to make it a 10 – minute workout, repeat the sequence one more time!
Want more of my body sculpting chair workouts? Get my full Body Beginner DVD HERE.
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