Fitness exercises: lift/stretch out your arm... how...?

[pls]

A client of mine who knows some English herself sent me a request for
comment:

She needs to have some fitness exercise related phrases translated (they
apparently have to be short since they are to be spoken during the
exercise) and was wondering whether "obliquely" or "diagonally" was the
appropriate translation for
ななめ in the following cases:
うでをななめに上げて！
うでをななめにつきだして！

Now, i know what those Japanese expressions mean (i.e., i can show you with
my arms what they mean), but i don't think i would understand (let alone
use) expressions like, "lift your arms obliquely"/"lift your arms
diagonally" or "stretch yours arms (forward) obliquely"/"stretch your arms
(forward) diagonally" - in fact i am not sure at all what i would use in
the absence of pictures or videos showing the exercise, unless i had the
time to give a detailed (i.e., not at all short) preliminary explanantion
along the lines of, for example, "start by stretching your arms out to the
sides, in a horizontal manner, so that they form a straight line from hand
to hand, and then repeatedly lift them up about 45 degrees and lower them
again to the horizontal position" - and then, during the exercise, i would
simply say "up", "down", etc.

Anybody with relevant real-life experience who can help?

TIA and regards: Hendrik

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[Thomas Groendal]

I would say...
"Up and right, Up and left"

> ななめ in the following cases:
> うでをななめに上げて！
> うでをななめにつきだして！

Tom G.

[Mark Spahn]

What an interesting challenge!

Well, does the shape your arms make remind you of anything?
If you raise both arms at the elbows
and open and close your fists, you could
say something like "Make a U ! Now gimme an umlaut!"
And this video will give you ideas (see 2:04):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAfhKpGExvU
-- Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY)

[Susan Mast]

I would say "at an angle." Hold your arms straight out to the sides,
lift them at an angle, etc.

Or as misprinted on the instructions for launching a taketonbo, "at an
angel."

Susan Mast
Lancaster, PA

On Dec 24, 6:03 pm, pls <oki_...@yahoo.co.jp> wrote:
> うでをななめに上げて！
> うでをななめにつきだして！

[pls]

--- pls <oki...@yahoo.co.jp> wrote:
> appropriate translation for

> ななめ in the following cases:
> うでをななめに上げて！
> うでをななめにつきだして！

Thomas, Mark, Susan - thank you for your comments/suggestions!

Regards: Hendrik