How many calories can I burn exercising for ½ hr per day, 3-4 times a week?    How do I decide what gym equipment will help me most?
This depends on what mode of exercise you choose to do, the intensity at which you perform the exercise and how much you weigh.  For example, in 30 min. you can burn approximately 400 calories doing step aerobics, 250-500 calories bicycling, 300 calories on an elliptical runner, 180 calories walking and 300-400 calories running, all assuming you weigh 150 pounds.  If you weigh less than that, you will burn fewer calories; if you weigh more than that, you will burn greater calories.

I recommend interval training; for example, 10-15 min. of 3 different exercises to keep everything fresh.

What can you do to get rid of arm flab?

First, you must reduce the amount of fat that sits on top of the muscles. To do this, you need to examine your current diet to make sure that your calories in are less than your calories out. This will take some dedication on your part and a good start would be to document what you eat and talk with an expert in nutrition to find out where unwanted calories are coming from.

Next, you need to tone the muscles underneath the fat. This includes working your arm muscles (i.e. biceps, triceps, shoulder complex, etc.) in many different planes of movement through weight training to be sure you’re hitting all the angles of the muscle for proper toning/definition. This may require some personal training, even just instructional based, so you can be sure you’re getting the most benefit from your work-out.

Remember: this won’t happen overnight and will take hard work and dedication on your part. But it can be done and we can help, so call for more information.