Learn the Secrets to Kelly Ripa's Amazing Arms
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Kelly Ripa has a right to bare arms!
"Kelly is lean and sexy all over, and her arms are proof that she works hard and works right," Gold's Gym star trainer Mike Ryan tells UsMagazine.com of the daytime talk show host, 39, who was named "Best Arms" in UsMagazine.com and Gold's Gym's first-ever Hollywood's Hottest Bodies Awards.
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Ryan's prescription for arms as top-rated a Ripa's? Consistent toning with weights, which he says "will work many muscles at once and will bring constant results." To get her sculpted arms, he describes a few key moves:
1. Straight curl. To tone biceps, stand up holding two dumbbells, palms up. Beginners should only hold 5-lb. weights, or 10 pounds total, and add more weight as you go. The current weight should always be challenging but not impossible to complete. Curl the barbell toward your chest and back down for one rep. Do three sets of 12 to 15 reps, resting for 30 to 60 seconds between each set.
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2. The 21s. Stand straight. Hold 5-lb. dumbbells in each hand in starting position, which is with arms down. Start with a basic curl from starting position, lifting the dumbbells halfway up, so arms are parallel with the floor. Do 7 reps of this. Then do 7 reps from the half-way position to the top of the straight bicep curl movement. Then, do 7 full reps following the entire range of motion from the starting position to the end of the bicep curl. This is a total of 21 reps. Do two sets.
3. Triceps kickback. Hold a 3-lb. dumbbell in one hand and place opposite knee on a bench with other foot flexed on the floor. Pull the arm holding the dumbbell straight back and up to your side. Lower to starting position. Repeat 15 reps for one set. Do 3 sets.
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For toned arms, this sequence of moves should be done three times per week in addition to a cardio regimen of running, walking or cycling.
Ripa, who has said she is "big on grazing" and tries to eat smaller amounts of food more often, likely benefits from such snacks as a handful of almonds, fresh veggies and pears, Ryan tells Us. "Bottom line, you always need to eat meals with clean, healthy ingredients."
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15Her head is way to big for her body. She looks like a popsicle.
She is definitely anorexic. She said herself all she eats is goldfish. Very sad.
Anybody besides me notice that only WOMEN are called "too thin". Thin guys are hot. Its a joke. By encouraging people to become overweight.. you are basically committing genocide. The american government said that 75% of americans will soon be OVERWEIGHT. So worry about that. The thin people of america will survive the great mass heart-attack of 2049.
Wow. If I was gay and into men......women with muscular man arms would so turn me on!! Muscles on a chick just don't do it for me. You can be fit without being buff. A chick with muscles is like a chick with a mustache to me. I dont think she is "too thin" though. Overweight white women are training society to prey on thin women in the name of jealousy under the guise of "concern for people's health". If you care about the "health" of skinny people.... donate a couple grand to some charity that feeds the starving in some god forsaken corner of ethiopia. What??? you dont care? of course you dont. Skinny Starving people dont make fat white men jealous. But a hot thin blue eyed blonde supermodel??? . "OH MY GAWD!! she's tooo thiiiiinnnnnnn!". STFU. There is a new law in my world. FEMALES: TURN YOUR MEN INTO FATSOS. leave our thin chicks alone!
Save your money. Here is how you do it. STOP EATING. You're welcome. And this guy charges money I assume at Golds Gym? Nice
I really like Kelly, but she has gotten waaaayyyyy toooooo thin. NOT good. Part of it is her attempt to look good, at ALL costs and she's lost the balance part of it. Sure, Madonna, whom she adores, is older, and Madge looks great because she works out AND keeps the balance. Sandra does too, and looks great. Something's really wrong here and I hope she gets help soon... it's also showing up in her face, maybe even more so, so in H'wood, she'll need to do something...VERY sad! She's adorable!
I like her personality, but she has such a horrid skinny body that it is totally gross. I have problems looking at her she looks so aneorexic, and I'm a small female too. I'm 5 ft 1 in. and weigh 105 lbs., but I have 34b boobs while she is FLAT and she is taller than I am. So I do not look skinny-ill like she does; at my height my weight is perfect. PLEASE put on some weight. Geez, 15 lbs would put her to a size 3/4 probably. I wear a 2, but again, I'm much shorter than her and I'm curvey, I've got a round bottom on me and boobs, but lean and muscular. I eat 5 times a day, spaced, and play and exercise with my kids after work and dinner. Eat healthy and exercise, easy to stay in shape, but Kellie does NOT look in shape at all, she looks ill. How in the world can she and her husband think this looks attractive, let alone healthy! She looks very scary.
@Julie - I bet to differ - if you've ever seen bikini pics you can clearly see every bone and rib and I may not be a doctor but I think that means that you are underweight. I'm not saying she has an eating disorder or is anorexic as I know she's very small but still, this is not her natural frame and you can look at her from the soap opera to see that she is not this way naturally.
I love Kelly Ripa, I think she's a positive, normal, healthy wife and mother in the mostly immoral,disgusting world of entertainment. That said, I think she's taken the workout thing too far. She's aerobicized herself down to nothing and if you ever see a picture of her in a bikini all I can stare at are the bones in her non-existent chest. She is very petite, and was NEVER overweight and I think a few negative comments when she was pregnant and actually eating made her go to this unhealthy extreme. I just think she needs to relax a little and five pounds would probably do her a lot of good. As she ages, the extreme no fat thing will look horrible and she'll look at least 10 years older.
She has a boy's body.
It looks like she hasn't had more than an apple for a few months. Great example for her kids!!
the secret, simple, rich, with a trainer, no doubt work out/training area in her home/apartment. also i'm sure she has a cook/nutritionist, and i'm doubting she really eats.
I think she could use more than a cookie. She's seriously underweight. I read she was about eighty something pounds. That has to be unhealthy just as being obese is.
She's way too thin, so yeah she's going to have thin arms! Duh!
She looks good...but she also has no body fat...of course no fat means the muscle shows. She looks like she could use a cookie..