<p>OK…NRDSB…I choose to believe that bat wings will NOT be part of my future. And I can do without BINGO for sure…</p>
<p>My doctor showed me a modified tricep dip as an osteoporosis exercise. Instead of pushing off a bench, I use a higher surface such as the bedroom dresser. Less intimidating, but still effective.</p>
<p>Swimming and gardening does help toning upper arms. I’m confortable wearing sleevess clothes but NOT to work(but for different reason).</p>
<p>Does anyone have a link to show some of these exercises? </p>
<p>Forget about bingo. If any of you are a school teacher, as I am, you’re worst fear is the flapping wings when you go to write on the white board! Those kids better duck.</p>
<p>"Well…just imagine what your arms would look like if you had NOT been doing weights for a few decades. "</p>
<p>-Probably the same. However, I would be couple inches shorter because of osteoporosis, there is no doubt about that. I have not gone down at all, I am statying the same height, which I attribute to weights training and being outside for at least one hour every single day. Many at my age have lost significant height. I am not taking calcium, I do not believe in it at all, not oral D either. Weights and walks at day light are my approach.</p>
<p>^^ Where you live in northern Ohio you are not getting enough sunlight for a great part of the year being outside for an hour a day. “Not believing” in oral D or calcium is another example of some really twisted thinking like not getting medical screenings.</p>
<p>Even though I am a teacher, I had to laugh when a friend’s daughter called them “teacher arms”. </p>
<p>Never writing on the white board again. Ever.</p>
<p>I am a gardener and I think this has helped alot. I spent the weekend
edging a lot of my beds with a spade… great arm work out. 
That and pulling baby trees and weeds.
My probs are all hips down… and dont get me started on my neck!! I hear theres
not a thing we can about that.</p>
<p>Learn something every day. (“bingo arms”) :(</p>
<p>Can’t help you with the solution, however. I have played the piano extensively for years and prided myself on good upper arm definition. However…I have noticed a certain amount of flappy skin there as I approach 60. Alas, I think it’s mostly inevitable.</p>
<p>It is such a cruel irony that the hot flashes that make me want to wear sleeveless clothes started at the same time the arm skin became loose.</p>
<p>"It is such a cruel irony that the hot flashes that make me want to wear sleeveless clothes started at the same time the arm skin became loose. "</p>
<p>-Do weights and go for a walk, spend couple hours exercising every day, it is worth it. Solution si the same as for osteoporosis. No hot flashes…but you do not have to, some people might like them to get warm. Sometime I am so cold, I am begging for them.</p>
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<p>Incorrect. Yes, weight-bearing exercise can help with bone density, but this is not always the case. I have been a competitive long distance runner since my 20s (and was active before that) and also swam, biked and lifted weights. I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. You do what you can, but sometimes it isn’t “the solution”.</p>
<p>Miami, are you saying that exercise cures hot flashes?</p>
<p>^I heard that it does. Somebody told me that I do not have them because I exercise a lot. I do not know more than that.</p>
<p>Exercise may reduce hot flashes, but it does not eliminate them. My friend, who exercises more than anyone I know (teaches classes and is training hard with Crossfit) gets ridiculous hot flashes. </p>
<p>I don’t have Michelle arms, but I go sleeveless now and then. Might as well as long as I can get away with it. I have a memory of being around nine years old and jiggling my grandmother’s upper arm, and making her mad. I was a bad bad girl . . .</p>
<p>So I am very active and continue to get hot flashes…not horrible and I just DEAL with them and actually prefer them over what I was dealing with before…ha ha. I take Calcium and D.
We are all different…we gotta make the best of what we have. Not so crazy about my legs so wear pants a lot. My arms look pretty good so I show them when it makes sense (not so much at work!). As long as we’re reasonably healthy, we should do the best we can to stay that way, be grateful and cover up the parts that don’t look so good. :)</p>
<p>Tricep bench dips: [How</a> to Do Triceps Bench Dips - YouTube](<a href=“How to Do Triceps Bench Dips - YouTube”>How to Do Triceps Bench Dips - YouTube)
Tricep dips on a machine that provides an assist: [Assisted</a> Triceps Dip Machine Exercise Demonstration](<a href=“http://www.sparkpeople.com/resource/exercises.asp?exercise=271]Assisted”>http://www.sparkpeople.com/resource/exercises.asp?exercise=271)
Tricep curls: [How</a> to Do Tricep Curls - YouTube](<a href=“How to Do Tricep Curls - YouTube”>How to Do Tricep Curls - YouTube)
Tricep kickback: [How</a> to Do a Triceps Kickback For Dummies - YouTube](<a href=“How to Do a Triceps Kickback For Dummies - YouTube”>How to Do a Triceps Kickback For Dummies - YouTube)</p>
<p>MiamiDAP, that’s lovely that you don’t need supplements. Are you aware that different people have different body chemistry, genetic makeup, etc?</p>
<p>I think I will take the hot flashes over the drenching night sweats. SO tired. Trying Dr. Oz’ Tart Cherry Juice treatment, google it. Will keep you posted. Supposedly the melatonin in the juice enables sleep. But I think the soaking sweats are going to wake me up anyway. All in all, I am to tired to get up and lift my weights any more. Just horrified at the grandma arms in my recent vacation photos. But too tired.</p>
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<p>That’s what made me think there is maybe something to the exercise thing…because I get night sweats, too…and of course, that is when I am least active.</p>