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Bootcamp: 7-Minute Arm Shaper with Dumbbells

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About this Workout
This workout is part of SparkPeople's 7-Day Bootcamp Workout plan. Coach Nicole has created an easy-to-follow upper body workout that you can do anywhere, with a pair of dumbbells and a chair. These targeted exercises (plus stretches) will help you develop tighter and firmer muscles over time. Free of complex choreography, this workout is appropriate for people of many different fitness levels and abilities.
  • Length: 7 minutes
  • Equipment: Dumbbells and a chair
  • Type of Workout: Strength training (toning) & flexibility
  • Muscles Worked: Back, shoulders, biceps, triceps, chest
  • Fitness Level: Beginner to advanced
  • Impact: No impact
  • Safety Precautions: Use a weight that is appropriate for your fitness level, where you feel challenged but can maintain good form. If you feel uncomfortable lying on the ball, simply lie on the floor with your back flat, knees bent and feet flat to do these upper body moves.
  • Extra Tip: Stay in control of your weights. Always lower them to the start position just as slowly as you lift. After all, you want to "resist" the weight going up and going down.

Member Comments

  • One of these days I will do a full on my toes pushups
    Good work out - 5/8/2013 10:51:44 AM
  • I wish you'd provide alternatives for the pushups and triceps lifts. I can't do floor work or anything that requires kneeling, and I'm way too heavy and weak to do the triceps thing! Remember that many of your viewers are older and/or very out of shape; I'm both. So I feel I didn't get a good workout. I was happy to discover I can increase the weights on the arm work, though. - 5/4/2013 6:21:30 AM
  • Again I did all of them, but had to modifiy the dip and the pushups, but I feel so much more comfortably doing them. Yea!!! - 4/30/2013 10:04:51 PM
  • ok that was a little too easy. I had 3 lb weights but i could just double the excersizes to get more results. I can definately feel it expecially when I did the pushups...:) - 4/26/2013 7:50:05 PM
  • I used some canned food with 1lb 12oz. Yet, I don't think that was enough weight for a challenge. - 4/17/2013 9:02:54 PM
  • This one was quick and easy. I think I need heavier weights. But, I need to work on push ups more. - 4/16/2013 7:34:22 PM
  • I am feeling some real progress with this exercise. Today I move up in the weight size and was actually able to do 5 of the lifts. Just small steps but progress not the less. - 4/8/2013 6:18:14 PM
  • Since I have a balance problem and have physical therapists coming twice a week, I have to modify some of the movements. I cannot do floor movements. I was just reminded of this when I fell here in the computer room. It took me the whole video to slide my butts back and forth to reach the stairway into the hallway, where my husband installed 4 handles and a pad for my knees. I cannot kneel even in church. Needless to say, I was sweating up a storm. Plus, I was wearing a heavy exercise jacket with 8 lbs of weights in it. I was able to get up myself and walk back to the computer and start over the exercises. I am alone since my husband went out shopping. I REALLY did have a workout. Having a neuro-muscular disease. I went into spasms when I was on the floor. So, that is why I have to modify the exercises at times. I hope that doesn't take any points off. - 3/27/2013 9:48:40 AM
  • day 3..had to do this one twice...need to get heavier weights - 3/27/2013 7:36:22 AM
  • Day 3 completed....and I reallyliked this one! - 3/27/2013 6:56:29 AM
  • Day three done. Have to do cardio tonight. - 3/26/2013 7:36:09 AM
  • This is a nice short arm work out for those days that I do a big cardio workout. I really like this work out. - 3/6/2013 1:12:07 PM
  • I hate those triceps dips but I do them anyway. My wrists hurts when I do tricep dips and push-ups. - 2/18/2013 11:41:56 PM
  • I love this video! I need to work on those push-ups! - 2/16/2013 11:59:36 AM
  • I added this to the upper body workout.

    My chair wasn't sturdy so I did kickbacks as well. - 2/8/2013 1:36:36 PM

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