On the red carpets, streets and beaches of Hollywood, it’s an arms race, alright! It’s no secret that the stars are pros at staying lean, healthy and fit. But it’s these women’s toned arms — biceps, triceps, shoulders and even traps — that truly show off the success of their diet and fitness routines.
After extensive photo research, Us reveals the celebrities who have the best arms now — as well as the exercises and workout tips that’ll help you get your tightest, most jacked arms too. Scroll through to see the pictures, and get ready to do planks, push-ups, Pilates, yoga and more to get the most defined limbs and upper body of your life.
Regina King
She won Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her part in If Beale Street Could Talk, but King also took home an unofficial award on February 24: Best Arms at the Oscars 2019! The star has spoken about living a healthy lifestyle since hypertension and heart disease run in her family. Besides eating well, she told Everyday Health in 2017 that she carries workout gear in her car so she can “hit the gym as often as possible, usually three to four times a week. I like lifting weights or taking kickboxing class.” And as she once told Us, she also enjoys barre ballet classes for toning. “It’s like ballet and aerobics together,” said King. “I was sore. You work muscles that you’re not used to working.”
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Lupita Nyong’o
The actress showed off her crazy toned arms at the Glamour Women of the Year Awards in November 2018. Typically, Nyong’o does a daily cardio and stretch routine. But before she filmed Black Panther, she participated in a six-week bootcamp which included martial arts — a practice she’s said she has always enjoyed. “It started off four hours a day, then it was reduced to two when I started bulking up — I remember coming home for Christmas and I couldn’t fit into my clothes,” she told The Hollywood Reporter in January 2018. “We would have warm-ups together, then break off and do our individual techniques. Nakia is a street fighter, so I had jujitsu and capoeira and ring blades.”
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Jessica Biel
No doubt about it, Biel’s got biceps. Ironically, the Gaiam ambassador, who showed off her toned upper body in September 2018, has gotten buffer the more she’s relaxed her attitude about fitness. These days, she’s all about yoga, which works everything from arms to shoulders to legs to core to the back. “I believe that the philosophy behind yoga and the yoga community is not about what shape you are; it’s not about what you look like; it’s really about health from the inside out,” she told Shape in April 2018. “Yoga has brought me a lot of feelings of power and confidence.”
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Jada Pinkett Smith
In June 2018, the Girls Trip star flexed her muscles on the street in NYC. Long a fan of dumbbells — “I usually use free weights,” the star has told Us — she picked up some tips from the Magic Mike XXL guys when filming, including machine exercises from Kevin Nash. “You can get an even more thorough workout using machines than using free weights because of the stability that the machines give you,” Pinkett Smith told Us in 2015. “I really got an affinity for machines after working with him and also learning that I don’t have to use as much weight as I had been using. As we get older, we don’t necessarily have to pile all that weight on. That’s old school thinking on how to work out. He was just showing me different techniques with reps and how to do different workouts to really maximize the growth of a muscle.”
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Jennifer Garner
Training for her 2018 action flick Peppermint really paid off for Garner — as the star showed with her truly impressive arm muscles at the Baby2Baby Gala in November 2018. To get them, she does a combination of cardio and strength training, including her dance-based workout sessions with her trainer Simone De La Rue. Garner is also a fan of boxing, often hitting up Santa Monica’s BoxUnion studio.
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