<p>Those are called “bingo arms”.</p>
<p>I have to be into appearance much more than I am to have a plastic surgery to adjust appearance of my arms. Not my priority, I rather fix something in my house, not my body, but all of it has to wait for awhile. I simply do not care, nobody is perfect.</p>
<p>…forgot to mention that all my $$ for fixing my body go to my dentist / oral surgeon despite having 2 dental insurances. I am on my implant #6. But I got to have teeth to consume food, do not want to be on liquid diet. Flabby arms have no negative effect on my health. Benefits - Maybe I can fly if I ever fall off the plane?</p>
<p>I have nice biceps, do dips, pull ups, overhead presses, bicep curls, swings with a kettleball and the row and the pec/tricep machine at the gym and I still have chicken flaps. It doesn’t seem fair to me! (And yes I am over 50.)</p>
<p>LIfe is not fair in many other more important aspects. the only thing we can do is to enjoy what each of us has. Enjoy, and if you cannot, then get a piece of good chocolate, it might help, never fails for me!</p>
<p>I’m going to google “tricep dip.”</p>
<p>Yikes, those look difficult…</p>
<p>I’ve been lifting weights all of my adult life and I wholeheartedly support the tricep dip! It also tones the shoulders, upper back and upper chest. Just be careful when doing it to not let your elbows roll around.</p>
<p>I’d also like to recommend resistance bands. There are multiple exercises that can be done for triceps (I also would lke to suggest that if you do work the triceps, you should also work the biceps for balance – that’s pretty important) and you can start with a low resistance band and move up. The bands work the triceps (and biceps and shoulders) really, really well and are cheap, convenient and portable.</p>
<p>My arms are kind of skinny. I’m 53. There isn’t a lot of muscularity in them but they look okay in sleeveless clothes although I tend to get cold indoors in the summer and need a sweater.</p>
<p>I am not crazy about the skin texture on my arms though. I’m tempted to work on a real deal tan . . . the skin reminds me of chicken skin. Yuck!</p>
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<p>Use an assisted tricep dip machine.</p>
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<p>Well…just imagine what your arms would look like if you had NOT been doing weights for a few decades.</p>
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[my great aunts looked like Aunt Bee](<a href=“File:First Episode Aunt Bee 10101.JPG - Wikipedia”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:First_Episode_Aunt_Bee_10101.JPG</a>)</p>
<p>Ok, so i haven’t hit 50 quite yet, have a few more years, but have started working out again. I have noticed that those machines that get your heart pumping have worked to lose some of the fat that did appear on the upper arms. I think that it is so much easier for men to build their muscles, especially the upper arm ones.</p>
<p>I tried lifting weights but didn’t like it much. I liked when i was younger but now am afraid of hurting myself. Once you have suffered a few injuries it makes you fearful of it happening again, or of something else happening. I like the idea of resistance bands. That sounds safe.</p>
<p>I am going with the idea that whatever loose skin that appears will get filled out with muscle mass. That’s the idea anyway. I have managed to build up the muscle in my legs, so i hope the arms won’t be too hard. One thing for sure though, if you have a layer of fat covering your muscle, you will see the fat not the muscle. That is especially true of the abdominal area. Lots of crunches are just going to make the fat stick out more until it gets worked off.</p>
<p>I think it’s safe that all of us can make improvements in the flabby arm department. How much? That will vary of course.</p>
<p>The two goals have to be to lose body fat and increase lean muscle mass – two pretty desirable things, flabby arms or not. Those two goals point to resistance strength training. Building (or at least slowing the loss of) muscle mass is crucial as we age. Resistance strength training is also hugely beneficial to keep from gaining weight and body fat. </p>
<p>Because body fat is an issue, I tend to favor larger whole body exericises that engage larger muscles than the typical arm exercises. That will not jump start fat loss at the same time as building arm muscles, while doing isolated arm exercises is not going to be of much help for fat loss.</p>
<p>A good place to start is [incline</a> pushups](<a href=“Incline Push Up - YouTube”>Incline Push Up - YouTube). Start with your hands on an elevated surface – like a kitchen counter or the third step on your stairway. When you can do those, go to a lower surface or a lower step, and so on and so forth until you can do pushups on the ground.</p>
<p>Likewise, an [inverted</a> row](<a href=“- YouTube”>- YouTube) – like an upside down pushup. Feet on the ground arms hanging from a bar. Pull your upper body up to the bar. The higher the bar, the more angled the body, the easier it is. Lower the bar and make the body more parallel to make it harder.</p>
<p>OK…had to pipe in here. I think some of this is genetic but we can make a difference.
I am over 50. My arms are not perfect but pretty darn good…np wearing sleeveless although I would like the overall appearance to be a bit sliimmer. Haven’t been doing weights but have done them in the past. I do plank and downward facing dog for LONG stretches…till my arms burn. Try to do it every night before I go to bed. I think it helps. I imagine those darn bat wings will show up at some point though…</p>
<p>I know a woman in her mid-50s who has the most beautiful, toned arms. She doesn’t lift weights, or go to the gym. Her secret? She’s a potter! Maybe it’s time to take up a new hobby?</p>
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<p>I think genetics does play a part…but…I don’t agree that this is inevitable. I don’t have a perfect body by any stretch (we all have our trouble spots), but I don’t have any trace of bat wings, so if I keep up with the strength training and don’t put on a lot of weight, I think maybe this is one thing I can avoid.</p>
<p>Why are they called bingo arms? Bat wings I can see…</p>
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I was wondering the same thing, ellemenope. My suspicions were confirmed with the Urban Dictionary explanation 
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<p>^That made me laugh!</p>
<p>One of the more depressing descriptors invented, though made me laugh as well.</p>