Ladies, Nobody Wants to Buy Tickets to Your 'Gun Show'

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These days, men aren't the only ones putting in some serious time at the gym. But now that women are more comfortable with lifting weights, a very disturbing trend has emerged; women everywhere have developed man arms. Granted, bodybuilder Gina Davis' 17-inch pipes are great for her profession, but on most women, those man arms would be just plain frightening. At what point to ladies' arms cross the toned line and enter into the manly pipes category?

Take Madonna for instance. The woman is so ripped and veiny, her fans have to be wondering if steroids are to blame. This is a woman has taken exercising to an extreme level (Madonna? Extreme? Weird.), and doesn't seem to care about being more ripped than her bodyguards.

On the other hand, Kelly Ripa has the toned-arm look down pat. She doesn't make her upper body quite as buff (or scary) as Madonna, but it's obvious she's not sitting around eating Twinkies all day, either.

To tone your arms without having to ask people to your "gun show," Deborah, the owner of a Curves for Women in St. Louis, has a bit of advice: "You should overload your muscles with circuit training and quick, 30-second arm exercises. You want to build muscle, not bulk, so avoid tearing your muscles down and rebuilding them bigger." Ladies, that means you shouldn't be doing three sets of bench presses at a max weight, unless, of course, you want to end up looking like Miss Davis.

What classifies as too toned, ladies? And at what point do buff biceps start to freak you out, gents?