highly recommended: 20 min. video teaching relaxed body arm swinging standing in place exercises

 

20 min. video teaching relaxed body arm swinging standing in place exercises

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-EYOxv8fNM

My favorite of the exercises is the one starting at 11m:30sec

It's basically doing full 360 arm swings with both arms simultaneously using a clever angle.

If you try an orthogonal angle, standing straight, both arms swinging perpendicular in front of you,

you wouldn't be able to swing full circles with both arms simultaneously, only one arm.

But with a waist turn and a slightly offset angle, as video shows, you can swing both arms.

Qigor enhancement to all the arm swing exercises

I try to use no arm and upper body initiated movement at all to do the moves. I use the momentum of my legs and waist motion to drive my arms and upper body movement.

I bend and squat deeper into the moves than they do in the video to generate more force.

You can see in the video they don't use leg and knee bending force to propel the arms. Maybe the waist turns generate most of it for them, but unless their shoulders  rotations are frictionless, they're probably using some arm muscle action to get the arms back to the peak height.