I believe fitness is first about getting healthy and feeling capable in your own body, and second about how you look. When you train only to look a certain way (skinny or ripped), you will either end up disappointing yourself constantly or sacrificing health for appearance. But when you train for function, your looks automatically change in a way that you can be proud of what you can do and how you look. That being said, I’d like to talk about some of the best exercises to get you that lean, “toned” look. There are a lot of misconceptions about how to do this, (my personal favorite is that to get great looking arms you need to do bicep curls).

Arms. As I said in the intro, it seems like most people (including myself once upon a time) think that to get defined looking arms you have to build your…