I am a 25 year old female.My arms look masculine.Please help me a way out of this.

Question

Hello doctor,

I am a 25 year old female. I am facing a problem of masculine looking arms. I am not into any kind of strength training exercises but I do not know why my muscles look very prominent. My protein intake is also once or twice a week. I am not able to wear any sleeveless tops or short sleeves tops because of my masculine arms. Please help me a way out of this. It is fine if my arms look fat but, I just do not want my muscle to be seen like this prominently. I have attached a picture of my arms.

Answer 1

Hi,

Welcome to icliniq.com.

I have seen your picture (attachment removed to protect patient identity).

Our arm has many muscles, the main muscles in our upper arm needs to apparently big so that we can lift things.

I think your arms are flabby and not toned. There are a lot of muscle toning arm exercises.

To help with the flabbiness, try stretching exercises as they really work as a magic. This will tone up the muscles that hold everything in, without building up the main ones.

Stretch your arms as high above your head as you can. Now do the same sideways. Do that three or four times a day and you should see some improvement.

To be honest, apart from stretching exercises there is nothing much one can do to reduce the flabbiness.

Also do not cut down your protein intake, as your body needs protein for proper body function. Instead reduce the carbohydrates and fats intake.

Another thing is that some people have the body type with prominent arms and shoulder muscles, so they can definitely reduce or shape it by toning the arms.

Other category of people are those who do heavy weight lift to increase their muscle mass. I do not think you do heavy weight lift and so it is your body type.

So, I advise you to start doing toning exercises.

Consult a fitness expert online for further follow up.

Answer 2

Hi,

Welcome back to icliniq.com.

Yes, due to weight gain you are seeing this more prominent muscles.

Unfortunately there is no medication for reducing muscles.

Stretching exercises will reduce the muscles, you are not going to lift weights and it will be a gradual process.

Decrease your daily caloric intake since excess calories overall can lead to weight gain all over your body, including your arms.

Aerobic exercise helps not to build the muscles, so stick to aerobic exercises and stretching.

Also take a lot of fruits like apple, pear, and seasonal fruits. Avoid eating too many mangoes and banana.

Answer 3

For further follow up, revert back to a fitness expert online.