I have the best trick for defined upper arms, and it requires minimal effort

If you’re not someone who enjoys hitting the gym too hard but are wanting to achieve a little more definition on your arms, I have excellent news – making this one simple change to your routine will help you do just that.

While this tip requires consistency, it’s low lift and can be done from the comfort of home, with no need to even step foot in the gym or an exercise class. Intrigued?

The simple trick to achieve defined arms

In a lot of cases, sports requires a lot of time and effort, so I’m always open to any tricks that help me do good for my body without having to sacrifice countless hours in the gym.

So what is this trick? It’s very simple: wrist weights. If you think about it, it makes a lot of sense. By wearing the weights in daily life, arms are trained incidentally without you having to do anything of restrict yourself in any way.

How can you integrate them into daily life?

There are no exact instructions here, because I just wore the wrist weights pretty much all the time – except at night, of course. Even when I was just sitting at my desk I wore them, because if you pay close attention, you move your hands and arms quite a lot even when typing on the keyboard. The purpose of the wrist weights is to increase each movement of the arms, no matter how small, by the extra weight.

It’s worth mentioning that it’s not like you need two kilos on each arm, but a few hundred grams are plenty to train without limiting your activities.

While I started ambitiously with 500 grams per cuff, I quickly realised that this was a bit too much and I had sore muscles in my upper arms and shoulders each evening. A good sign, but I didn’t want the wrist weights to restrict me and ideally I wanted to not even be able to notice them. Eventually, I settled in at 300 grams per wrist. If you really wanted, you could definitely increase the weight gradually over time.

Legs and bum instead of triceps and biceps

Of course, you can also just put the weight cuffs around your ankles and train your bum muscles and tone your legs. It is important to know that visible results usually take a little longer, because the muscles in the buttocks, thighs and calves are much larger than in the arms and therefore need more time to train.

This feature originally appeared in Glamour DE.