Help i have bingo arms
jesskuhliisa
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I go to the gym aprox 5 to 6 days a week with active rest for one or two days (at home work out) and am finding some great results but i still have very loose flabby under arms anyone have any tips or excercises to help me out please and thank you!!
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Me too, if that makes you feel any better. I continue to lift and hope for the best.4
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Keep lifting, give it time and if all else fails, surgery. Not much else you can do.3
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Be careful.
Maybe this isn't you, but too many women hold their arm out from their body, all relaxed, wiggle it, and if anything moves underneath, they call it "bingo wings" and hate on it.
No.
Flex your arm, kinda like a bodybuilder. Tighten up every part you can, especially the muscles on the back of your upper arm (triceps). If you haven't done this much, you might have to experiment a little with the best way to get everything as clench-y tight as it will go, curling your wrist over, bending at the elbow, figuring out the best angles between upper arm & shoulder as you work on making it as tight as it'll go. But do it.
OK - now move the arm around. I'm going to go out on a limb here, and guess that less of the upper arm is gonna flop around. Why? Because relaxed triceps (those muscles in the back of the upper arm) are a bit slack, and will move around. Even quite fit, slim women can get some movement from the back of a relaxed upper arm.
Another test: When your arm is relaxed, grab onto that "bingo wing" with your other hand - get a good handful of the floppy bits. Now tighten up/flex the arm you're holding onto. Did part of the floppy bit turn kind of firm in your hand? That's a muscle. There may be some fat, too; there may be some loose skin. And for any of us, it can become a stronger and firmer muscle with more exercise. But it's still a muscle.
I've done this stuff with many women. Literally every one of them was mis-identifying some of their actual muscles as fat, disgusting "bingo wings". Do they sometimes have some extra fat or skin? Sure. But part of what they think is fat or skin is actually muscle. For many of us, our body image is so distorted, that we mis-identify our nice, relaxed muscles as ugly fat (or loose skin) and hate on them.
Make sure you're not doing that. Then keep working out, especially strength exercises, and getting to a healthy body weight, to improve the rest. If there's loose skin involved, it can take some time to shrink back, even after the weight loss. My loose skin has continued shrinking, even into my 2nd year of weight maintenance. The whole process isn't super-speedy, but it works.64 -
Well, that's another awful (classist, sexist, ageist?) name for a perfectly normal body part. It's your arm. You only get two, tops. What did you do with it today aside from call it names and wish it looked like the airbrushed arms in a magazine?26
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Be careful.
Maybe this isn't you, but too many women hold their arm out from their body, all relaxed, wiggle it, and if anything moves underneath, they call it "bingo wings" and hate on it.
No.
Flex your arm, kinda like a bodybuilder. Tighten up every part you can, especially the muscles on the back of your upper arm (triceps). If you haven't done this much, you might have to experiment a little with the best way to get everything as clench-y tight as it will go, curling your wrist over, bending at the elbow, figuring out the best angles between upper arm & shoulder as you work on making it as tight as it'll go. But do it.
OK - now move the arm around. I'm going to go out on a limb here, and guess that less of the upper arm is gonna flop around. Why? Because relaxed triceps (those muscles in the back of the upper arm) are a bit slack, and will move around. Even quite fit, slim women can get some movement from the back of a relaxed upper arm.
Another test: When your arm is relaxed, grab onto that "bingo wing" with your other hand - get a good handful of the floppy bits. Now tighten up/flex the arm you're holding onto. Did part of the floppy bit turn kind of firm in your hand? That's a muscle. There may be some fat, too; there may be some loose skin. And for any of us, it can become a stronger and firmer muscle with more exercise. But it's still a muscle.
I've done this stuff with many women. Literally every one of them was mis-identifying some of their actual muscles as fat, disgusting "bingo wings". Do they sometimes have some extra fat or skin? Sure. But part of what they think is fat or skin is actually muscle. For many of us, our body image is so distorted, that we mis-identify our nice, relaxed muscles as ugly fat (or loose skin) and hate on them.
Make sure you're not doing that. Then keep working out, especially strength exercises, and getting to a healthy body weight, to improve the rest. If there's loose skin involved, it can take some time to shrink back, even after the weight loss. My loose skin has continued shrinking, even into my 2nd year of weight maintenance. The whole process isn't super-speedy, but it works.
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MegaMooseEsq wrote: »Well, that's another awful (classist, sexist, ageist?) name for a perfectly normal body part. It's your arm. You only get two, tops. What did you do with it today aside from call it names and wish it looked like the airbrushed arms in a magazine?
I've always called them bat wings. I have them (in relaxed position, less so flexed, and working on it). They're bad*ss and cool, cos bats are bad*ss and cool.
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I did as well, even when I reached my goal. However as time went by each year of maintenance it got better and better and now it has tighten up and is mostly gone.
I did and still do tricep work like one-legged tricep dips, tricep kickbacks, dumbbell overhead press, skullcrushers etc. This has just been my experience. We all carry weight differently.
Keep lifting and have lots of patience. Hopefully it will get better in time.5 -
Where did "bingo wings" come from? Was it like someone winning at bingo and then waving the ticket around the the arm fat waved too?
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Where did "bingo wings" come from? Was it like someone winning at bingo and then waving the ticket around the the arm fat waved too?
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It's a stereotype of fat older women going to the bingo and waving around their flabby arms when they win.3 -
Where did "bingo wings" come from? Was it like someone winning at bingo and then waving the ticket around the the arm fat waved too?
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IT'S NOT ARM FAT!!!!
p.s. love ya, niner.2 -
scarlett_k wrote: »Where did "bingo wings" come from? Was it like someone winning at bingo and then waving the ticket around the the arm fat waved too?
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It's a stereotype of fat older women going to the bingo and waving around their flabby arms when they win.
I think it has more to do with age than weight, though. "Old lady arms," basically. I never thought of it as pejorative, though, but I'm also one who refuses to dye my graying temples because age is nothing to be ashamed of. By the time I actually win anything at Bingo, I'm gonna have ALL the bingo wings, and an entire army of troll dolls to thank for my good fortune.10 -
Weight training helps, but for me, the only way my bingo wings would totally leave is if I had skin removal surgery.1
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I have never heard that phrase before! Omg, to funny. Sorry, I have no helpful information. Good luck!0
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Be careful.
Maybe this isn't you, but too many women hold their arm out from their body, all relaxed, wiggle it, and if anything moves underneath, they call it "bingo wings" and hate on it.
No.
Flex your arm, kinda like a bodybuilder. Tighten up every part you can, especially the muscles on the back of your upper arm (triceps). If you haven't done this much, you might have to experiment a little with the best way to get everything as clench-y tight as it will go, curling your wrist over, bending at the elbow, figuring out the best angles between upper arm & shoulder as you work on making it as tight as it'll go. But do it.
OK - now move the arm around. I'm going to go out on a limb here, and guess that less of the upper arm is gonna flop around. Why? Because relaxed triceps (those muscles in the back of the upper arm) are a bit slack, and will move around. Even quite fit, slim women can get some movement from the back of a relaxed upper arm.
Another test: When your arm is relaxed, grab onto that "bingo wing" with your other hand - get a good handful of the floppy bits. Now tighten up/flex the arm you're holding onto. Did part of the floppy bit turn kind of firm in your hand? That's a muscle. There may be some fat, too; there may be some loose skin. And for any of us, it can become a stronger and firmer muscle with more exercise. But it's still a muscle.
I've done this stuff with many women. Literally every one of them was mis-identifying some of their actual muscles as fat, disgusting "bingo wings". Do they sometimes have some extra fat or skin? Sure. But part of what they think is fat or skin is actually muscle. For many of us, our body image is so distorted, that we mis-identify our nice, relaxed muscles as ugly fat (or loose skin) and hate on them.
Make sure you're not doing that. Then keep working out, especially strength exercises, and getting to a healthy body weight, to improve the rest. If there's loose skin involved, it can take some time to shrink back, even after the weight loss. My loose skin has continued shrinking, even into my 2nd year of weight maintenance. The whole process isn't super-speedy, but it works.
This. But yeah, I've been maintaining for 3 years now, and even when I flex there's still a bit of loose skin in there, giving that effect (more on the right arm too). But if I wave... UGH.1 -
Ive lost 150lb with more to go. Ill swap arms with you
Nothing firms when i tense up, well at least not the great big handful i can grab hold of
I still wear sleeveless dresses cos i dont give the tiny furry crack of a rats behind what others think, they cant call me anything i havnt heard a hundred times already and yes i wave when they stare or comment11 -
Where did "bingo wings" come from? Was it like someone winning at bingo and then waving the ticket around the the arm fat waved too?
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No idea, I clicked on the thread to find out.
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Lol, well okay some fat and excess skin hang.cmriverside wrote: »Where did "bingo wings" come from? Was it like someone winning at bingo and then waving the ticket around the the arm fat waved too?
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IT'S NOT ARM FAT!!!!
p.s. love ya, niner.
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Keep exercizing, stay hydrated, hope for the best. Sometimes the skin shrinks, sometimes it doesn't.1
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Bingo wings?
You can't do very much about it except to keep lifting and keep your skin in good shape.
There are a couple of things that might make your skin slightly more elastic...and if not, they feel good or are generally good for your health:
--take Omega 3 oils, such as fish and flax, every day
--stay well hydrated
--use a salt scrub every other day or so...you can make one at home with by mixing table salt and sea salt with a bit of olive oil..combine that with your favorite body wash and you have a good scrub
--moisturize well and often2 -
Where did "bingo wings" come from? Was it like someone winning at bingo and then waving the ticket around the the arm fat waved too?
That was my question too.
I've always heard them called "batwings" ... "bingo" doesn't make any sense at all.
Oh, and you can't wash "batwings" away or none of us would have them.
The best I could do was tricep exercises to kind of fill them out a bit.
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Where did "bingo wings" come from? Was it like someone winning at bingo and then waving the ticket around the the arm fat waved too?
That was my question too.
I've always heard them called "batwings" ... "bingo" doesn't make any sense at all.
Oh, and you can't wash "batwings" away or none of us would have them. The best I could do was tricep exercises to kind of fill them out a bit.
@Machka9 maybe bat wings is an NZ/AUS thing? It makes so much more sense! I had to really think about why they would even be called bingo wings!0 -
Nony_Mouse wrote: »Where did "bingo wings" come from? Was it like someone winning at bingo and then waving the ticket around the the arm fat waved too?
That was my question too.
I've always heard them called "batwings" ... "bingo" doesn't make any sense at all.
Oh, and you can't wash "batwings" away or none of us would have them. The best I could do was tricep exercises to kind of fill them out a bit.
@Machka9 maybe bat wings is an NZ/AUS thing? It makes so much more sense! I had to really think about why they would even be called bingo wings!
They're bat wings in the US too. Bingo wings is actually a new one for me, but as a fan of Bingo, I like it.2 -
I've had them since I was 12, never had a visible elbow, and would not wear tank tops ever. The fat on the back of my arm had cellulite and folded over my elbow all of the time, flexing or not. My genetics for some reason decided that was where I kept my fat. I had them whether I was 120 lbs or 220 lbs. At my thinnest, I had muscle definition on my shoulders but firm fat covering my triceps. AnnPT77 summed it up so nicely, many people are self conscious about that area but are really looking at muscle and skin. I finally had surgery to fix it this year after almost 20 years of trying to lose them. But honestly, unless you have an extreme case, it will resolve.1
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PaulaWallaDingDong wrote: »Nony_Mouse wrote: »Where did "bingo wings" come from? Was it like someone winning at bingo and then waving the ticket around the the arm fat waved too?
That was my question too.
I've always heard them called "batwings" ... "bingo" doesn't make any sense at all.
Oh, and you can't wash "batwings" away or none of us would have them. The best I could do was tricep exercises to kind of fill them out a bit.
@Machka9 maybe bat wings is an NZ/AUS thing? It makes so much more sense! I had to really think about why they would even be called bingo wings!
They're bat wings in the US too. Bingo wings is actually a new one for me, but as a fan of Bingo, I like it.
They're bat wings in Canada too.
I did a quick google search and the "bingo wings" almost seems to be more British. Perhaps some UK members can confirm.0 -
Can't confirm it's exclusively British, or even that it hails from here (though it's certainly looking that way), but it's definitely a popular term here!0
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"Chicken wings", "bat wings", "bingo wings", "arm flaps", "arm curtains": Grrrr. Synonyms used for self-shaming, body hatred. Grrrr. Discussion (and even show'n'tell comparison!), sometimes, as a supposed female bonding ritual. Grrrr.
Dang it, love your body: Look at all the things it can do. It's amazing and beautiful. Help your friends and acquaintances love their bodies, too. Granny sez.
OK, sermon over. Off topic. Back to the thread.11 -
"Chicken wings", "bat wings", "bingo wings", "arm flaps", "arm curtains": Grrrr. Synonyms used for self-shaming, body hatred. Grrrr. Discussion (and even show'n'tell comparison!), sometimes, as a supposed female bonding ritual. Grrrr.
Dang it, love your body: Look at all the things it can do. It's amazing and beautiful. Help your friends and acquaintances love their bodies, too. Granny sez.
OK, sermon over. Off topic. Back to the thread.
is it really more offensive than love handles, beer belly, moobs, or any of the other various names we give for common physical attributes associated with obesity that we'd rather not have to deal with?3 -
"Chicken wings", "bat wings", "bingo wings", "arm flaps", "arm curtains": Grrrr. Synonyms used for self-shaming, body hatred. Grrrr. Discussion (and even show'n'tell comparison!), sometimes, as a supposed female bonding ritual. Grrrr.
Dang it, love your body: Look at all the things it can do. It's amazing and beautiful. Help your friends and acquaintances love their bodies, too. Granny sez.
OK, sermon over. Off topic. Back to the thread.
is it really more offensive than love handles, beer belly, moobs, or any of the other various names we give for common physical attributes associated with obesity that we'd rather not have to deal with?
I think it's counter-productive and harmful to come up with derogatory names for any part of your body. That said, "bingo wings" feels especially offensive because of the specific association with older working- and middle-class women.4
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