Your skin may appear loose and flabby if you experience rapid weight loss, which prevents skin from adjusting its elasticity. Aging can also reduce your skin’s elasticity. The University of Iowa Health Care states that exercise may help to minimally tighten skin. During exercise, you tighten underlying muscles that make your skin appear less flabby. However, you may not achieve drastic results with this method.
Push-Ups
Good Housekeeping recommends push-ups to build arm muscles. To perform these, place your hands on the floor shoulder width apart and extend your feet straight back. Keep your legs together and support the weight of your lower half by balancing on your toes. Using your arm strength, lower your body down so your torso is just slightly off the ground, and then push yourself back up to the starting position. Do 10 repetitions, keeping your legs stationary and your back straight.
Lunges
Lunges tighten your quadriceps, hamstrings, buttocks and some lower leg muscles, notes the Mayo Clinic. To do lunges, stand up and step forward with your right foot. Lean forward until your knee is at a 90-degree angle and keep your back knee parallel to the ground. You should feel the tightening in your legs during the exercise. Return to the starting position and do 10 repetitions with each leg.
Squats
To do squats, stand with your feet hip width apart. While holding a weight in each hand, cross your arms and rest one weight on each of your shoulders. Slowly lower your body by bending your knees, and then return to the starting position. By squatting and holding onto weights, you are tightening your legs and arms.
Inspirations Personal Training recommends that you start with 2- or 3-pound weights and gradually increase. Do 10 repetitions of this exercise daily.
Crunches
Crunches can help to tighten your abdominals, the skin on your stomach. To do crunches, lie on your back on a flat surface. Put your hands behind your ears, bend your knees and keep your feet flat on the floor. While clenching your abdominal muscles, sit up so your upper back comes off the ground. Slowly lower yourself back onto the floor.
Good Housekeeping recommends that you continue this exercise for 3.5 minutes.
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