The Summer Dress Workout Plan

With summer drawing near, many of you may be thinking of all the different summer dresses that you’d like to wear over the coming season.  Summer is definitely a time to shed some of that bulky clothing that you’ve been covering up with over the winter months, so by lightening up your diet and making a few adjustments to your workout program, you can ensure that you are right on track.

So what should your summer dress workout plan be?  What moves should you be including into the mix?

Let’s run through how you can create a summer dress workout plan to get started on the right foot.

Perform Waist Slimming Exercises

The very first thing that you should be doing is working to firm up your waist and create the illusion of a thinner figure.  If you want that hourglass look, you’ll want to focus on adding more muscle tone and definition to the upper body, which will then make your waistline seem smaller.

To do this, turn to the shoulder press exercise as well as lateral raises. If you can perform these three times per week, you should see noticeable improvements shortly.

In addition to that, keep all your abdominal exercises focused on the direct up and down movement.  While it may be tempting to add in some twisting exercises to target your ‘love handles’, these exercises are actually more likely to add bulk to the waist and cause you to appear thicker.

If you have love handles that you need to get rid of, look at your diet for assistance there instead.

Tone The Upper Body

Second, another must-do in order to see success is to make sure that you perform plenty of exercises that will tone your upper body.  Since many of the dresses you’ll be in this season are going to be sleeveless, it’s important to firm this area of the body.

Good moves to include will be the shoulder press again, bent over dumbbell rows, chest fly’s to help enhance your cleavage, and tricep kickbacks or overhead extensions to firm up the under arms.

Perform two sets of 15 of each of these exercises. 

Don’t Forget The Calves

Finally, last but not least, make sure that you don’t forget your calf muscles.  Since you will likely be wearing heels or at the very least have the bottom portion of your leg showing, it’s important that you firm this area.

Standing calf raises are great for this and if you want added intensity, try doing them on one foot.

There you have some of the key concepts and exercises to add into your summer dress workout plan over the next few weeks.  It’s always a good idea to add these to other exercises that target the other muscles in the body as well such as lunges, squats, and the chest press for a well-balanced workout that burns calories fast.