1. Swim Tone
Toning arms with swimming is just one of the many benefits offered by this great sport. Swimming regularly can tone your overall life by relaxing your mind and body, burning calories and increasing stamina. To get the full benefits of swimming, though, you must swim regularly and for at least an hour at a time. Most experts suggest a daily swim. If that's not possible for you, try for at least three times each week.
2. Tone and Tighten
Tone and tighten your arm muscles by using a couple of tools in the water. Swim gloves that are weighted make great tools for increasing muscle tone. Wear the weighted swim gloves while you swim back and forth across the pool several times. Tone your arms with a kick-board in the swimming pool. Lie across the kick-board and allow your upper body to hang off. Use only your arms to swim across the pool. Your arm muscles work extra hard pulling the kick-board and your body through the water.
3. Swimmingly Good Arm Exercises
You don't need extra equipment to tone your arms with swimming. Arm exercises in the pool are simple. Just swim back and forth across the pool, using only your arms to pull your body through the water. Let your legs hang loose and make your arms do all the work. Your arms feel all the resistance of the water and muscle tone improves steadily. It won't be long before you see a marked difference in the tightness of your upper arm muscles. Building muscle burns fat and tightens and tones the skin.
4. Hang Ten
Improve muscle tone in your arms as you hang onto the edge of the pool in the deep end. Put just your fingers on the top edge of the pool, out of the water. Pull your upper body above the pool's edge while kicking your feet at the same time. Feel the muscles in your arms contract. Hold that pose for a couple of minutes before you relax back into the water. Also, lie on your back on an inflatable raft in the pool. Do the back stroke with your arms and propel yourself through the water. This is another exercise that improves arm muscle tone.
5. Toning Arms to Heal
Use the swimming pool to help heal muscle injuries in the arms. Stand in the pool with your feet flat on the bottom. Allow your injured arm to relax and float on top of the water. Resistance from the water builds strength in the muscle and rebuilds muscle tone, but doesn't put painful strain on the muscle.
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