so if you have that loose saggy skin underneath your arms you're going to be very excited to watch this video typically a person with loose skin underneath their arms might just think it's a fat problem and they just need to lose weight so they do all this cardio and they change their diet and it doesn't do anything so what I have to share with you first is what the problem really is and from there we can come up with a really good solution now there's a term I want to intr uce you to called sarcopenia
age related muscle loss and this may or may not be happening to you depending on your age and one other thing are you sitting down for this immobility if you immobilize a muscle or a joint is it the muscle that actually keeps the shape of the arm the answer is no it's this right here so in our bodies we have Saran Wrap we have a certain wrap in tissue that surrounds the muscle and that tissue is called fascia fascia is the bag that surrounds the arm and holds everything in a nice tight way and in
this diagram here you'll see you have the skin and then just underneath it you have a layer of fat it's called subcutaneous fat and then you have the first layer of fasia okay and then you have another layer of fat and then you have another layer of fascia and then you have the muscle and fascia also becomes immobilized with immobility and aging yes you might have some fat there that needs to be dealt with but probably the bigger problem is this atrophy of the fascia and the muscle now there's an interesting book that I'm reading
right here fascia treatment with shock waves which I'm not recommending in this video anything about the shock waves that would be for more of a mile FAS problem which we're not talking about but I want to share something in this book this very expensive book fascia can change its tone it has contractile cells within the fascia itself it can change its tone so the question is how we just basically undo the immobility and we start to move it but here's the problem if you do this on more of an isolated basis where you're just working
two muscles right you're you're extending the tricep or you're Contracting the bicep that doesn't involve the fascia it only involves the Muscle fascia is much more Dynamic and it crosses over a lot of different muscle groups so the type of solution that I'm going to recommend is not a two-dimensional contraction relaxation type exercise but more of a functional exercise that involves like at least 20 muscles because it's all one continuous unit if you're just going to focus on this one small area with if you're neglecting what it's connected to the back part we're probably not
going to see much change so I'm going to show you the best exercises to start out with which I'm going to put a link down below rather than reinvent the wheel you just need to watch how this person does this exercises because she did a wonderful job of doing the most incredible Dynamic functional exercises with the arms without any added weight the fascia adds elasticity flexibility posture it holds everything up if we didn't have it we'd just basically be this big ball of mush so really the solution is a lot of movement in that area
even in anatomy and physiology when you take the courses you learn the uh origin insertion of the muscles right and that's important but in life we're not just using like one or two muscles I mean the Motions that we do in living are very very Dynamic and uh that's why going to the gym and just isolating one muscle at a time I don't think is the best workout especially for your fascia because the fascia wraps around and it goes to other muscles it's one big sheath that kind of covers everything all right so here's the
first step okay and I would recommend watching this entire video um but this is an arm workout so as you can see she has a timer there you can follow along and she's just about ready to show you the first exercise that involve not just the arm but the shoulder itself no weights okay then she goes to another workout right here where she's doing a different motion okay this involving the shoulders the arms I'm going to turn around so then she does a series of additional exercises including this one where she's pushing your arms out
and in okay looks easy incredibly difficult okay your arms are going to burn so just do as much as you can this first workout you don't want to get too sore now what you're doing in this functional exercise you're doing a a series of moves and motions that involve the fascia and the muscle and you're going to do this workout as much as you can until you have no more soreness now it could take a week before all the soreness goes away and then you want to do it again you're going to keep doing these
exercises over and over and over until the point where you know you can do them comfortably and there's very little if any soreness at all all right so now that you went through this exercise which you're working the muscle we want to go heavier into the fascia using one of these right here okay bands and I found a really good uh exercise for that maneuver right here we're going to take a look at it right now right and um you can see this person is taking these bands and they're stretching all the way to the
lateral side of their body and they're really activating the fascia all the fascia that comes underneath here comes all the way down your arm through here okay so what we want to do is we want to stretch all of that because it's not just the EXC exercise that stimulates the reversal of atrophy it's also stretching stretching will help activate the fal bag around this tissue and start tightening it because it has contracti tissue and of course you want to do the other side okay with these bands maximum do both sides left arm pulls down okay
and you'll see that then he transitions to another maneuver which is on your knees it goes through that technique amazing stretches I mean for your fascia it's going to tighten up underneath your arm and you're going to do both sides and then once you've graduated from that video there's one more that I found that's awesome now you're going to add weight to your arms while you do some of these exercises and this video is called solid arms and shoulders 30 minute strength workout with dumbbells okay and of course you want to use the appropriate weight
for this so maybe you start out with with a 5 lb weight go to a 10 lb weight maybe a 15 lb weight but probably not anything more than that bringing the Dum so in this exercise you can see that she has dumbbells and she's basically going to work her arms one at a time over her head which I like this a lot better than doing curls because you're working the entire arm the shoulder everything so you're not just working the tricep it's very functional very simple and she has a countdown so you can do
that this is a great video so I don't have to reinvent the wheel these are three amazing videos that I think you can use in the recovery of the fascia underneath your arm as well as the atrophied muscle underneath your arms and on that note I have the first video connected right here check it out