arm exercise
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- noun
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ejercicio de brazo
- While we're doing arm exercises, she babbles: "It's really easy to fatigue the triceps because they're smaller muscles and we don't use them as much."
Examples
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Weight Training - If you use equipment for arm exercises, do them straight after your ab workout.
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Do "press-ups, bench presses, squats, abdominal crunches, pull-ups," and general arm exercises, he says.
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Incorporate arm exercises into your routine to build strength in your arms.
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Make sure to include arm exercises if you want to improve your upper body strength.
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He added new arm exercises to his fitness regimen to enhance muscle tone.
Synonyms
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1.0
Regular training to improve skill or physical strength
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Planned activity that uses your muscles to keep you fit and healthy
A gym exercise that lifts a weight from the shoulder to above the head until the arms are straight
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently built from 'arm' (the upper limb) + 'exercise' (bodily movement for fitness); it follows a common noun-noun compounding pattern where the first noun specifies the body part targeted by the exercise. This compositional and cross-linguistically familiar structure would be immediately clear to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
The phrase arm exercise comes from the simple idea of working the arm with repeated movements, like lifting weights or using a resistance band. So it means 'a movement to make the arm stronger'.