It’s never too late to start exercising and reap the benefits of it. To help you get started on toning your upper body, we’ve rounded up some of the best exercises you can do anywhere, anytime, with just basic equipment or items you can grab in your home. You want to add resistance training, but only to tone and define your arms, shoulders and back, but to also build strength, improve our posture and help you with our everyday activities. From carrying your kids, to heavy luggage, there are so many everyday activities that require upper body strength.

When it comes to the upper body, there are 5 major areas we are looking at, Back, Chest, Shoulders, Biceps and Triceps. You can use your own body weight, weights, bands and kettlebells to help us build strength, but you can also use things around the house to incorporate into your upper body exercises like bottles of water, can of beans, and books.

Push-ups / Chest press

Using cans of beans!

Rows/ Weights & Bands

Using laundry detergent.

Shoulder Press/ lateral raise

With books.

Bicep curls & Tricep Kickbacks

Using water bottles.