Who said Michelle Obama sculpted arms are mostly the result of tricep pushdowns and hammer curls?
Michelle Obama’s longtime trainer is breaking his silence, spilling the workout secrets that keep the First Lady fit for her favorite sleeveless outfits. “She’s truly committed herself to the importance of health and fitness,” Cornell McClellan tells Women’s Health magazine. McClellan, who began training Obama in 1997, said her sculpted arms are mostly the result of tricep pushdowns and hammer curls. The trainer, who owns the Naturally Fit fitness center in Chicago, reveals the First Lady usually does an intense calorie-burning cardio workout. Once she gets the blood flowing and the muscles pumping, she tops it off with “arm-shaping supersets” on a machine and with free weights, he said. Using a straight bar attached to the high pulley of a cable station, she’ll do as many tricep pushdowns as she can without resting. The exercise also works her now-famous deltoids. She’ll follow that with a set of hammer curls using dumbbells to work her biceps, McClellan said. She’ll do up to three se
Michelle Obama’s longtime trainer is breaking his silence, spilling the workout secrets that keep the First Lady fit for her favorite sleeveless outfits. “She’s truly committed herself to the importance of health and fitness,” Cornell McClellan tells Women’s Health magazine. McClellan, who began training Obama in 1997, said her sculpted arms are mostly the result of tricep pushdowns and hammer curls. Sources: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/09/08/2009-09-08_secret_behind_michelle_obamas_arms.
