What To Do When Your Arms Get Tired During Your Workout

When you're working out your arms, the whole point is to feel the burn. You know that intellectually, but sometimes, it's too tempting to just take a quick break the second that exercise gets hard.

You may relax your arms, put down your weights or, worst of all, break proper form and risk injuring yourself in hopes of finding relief. Barre instructor Kara Liotta has a different suggestion.

In any barre class, Liotta says that the arms series -- holding weights while your arms do quick pulses while lifted way out to the side -- is often the toughest part of the workout.

Here's Liotta's trick you can do when your arms inevitably start to feel tired:

"Flip your palms up to the ceiling," she instructs. "What that's going to do is actually take the work into your biceps and let your shoulders have a little rest so that you can get through the rest of the series without dropping your arms."

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