By Hannah Roberts
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If you're secretly quite pleased that the sunshine has gone missing this year because you haven’t had to bare your upper arms, help may be at hand.
A fitness expert claims to have identified six different types of so-called ‘bingo wings’ â€" and a way to get rid of them all.
Brace yourself though, because they don’t exactly have the most flattering of names.
Problem area: Exposing the upper arms can be a fraught time if it leaves flabby skin on show
Arm issues: Gabourey Sidibe has a 'Double Chubble' while Jessica Simpson is afflicted with 'classic' bingo wings
While some may suffer from ‘Rump Lumps’, others are hiding ‘Double Chubble’ or, the very worst, ‘Jabba Flabba’.
According to research, three-quarters of women hate their bingo wings, the flaps of skin which hang under the triceps â€" and they plague some men, too.
Caused by sagging skin and excess weight, they are almost impossible to shift with ordinary exercise routines.
Personal trainer Rich Jones says there are six specific types.
The first, ‘Classic’ bingo wings, are often seen on women who lack tone in their upper arms. ‘Rump Lumps’ are caused by extra weight at the top of the arms and on the pectoral muscles, and earn their name because they look like a ‘small backside’.
The ‘Double Chubble’ is defined as a bingo wing on top of a bingo wing, and tends to afflict very overweight women.
Denise Welch has 'Rump Lumps' while Anne Robinson has 'Arm Charms'
At the worst end of the scale is the ‘Jabba Flabba’, named after Jabba the Hutt in Star Wars. Sufferers have ‘several rolls of unsightly fat that extend from the wrist to the upper arm’.
Dieters who shed huge amounts of weight are more likely to suffer from ‘Arm Charms’, a fold of skin which hangs loosely from the arm.
And men don’t escape, either. Mr Jones calls male bingo wings ‘Chap Flaps’, and says they tend to appear when men put on weight generally.
Not content with identifying the six types, he also claims to have invented a way to banish them.
He has developed a routine using the Powerspin, a weighted device which targets the arms. It resembles a steering wheel and consists of a weighted ball within a circular tube, which creates a centrifugal force as it is spun.
Once a week, workouts should be dedicated solely to the biceps and triceps, he says, while training intensity should be increased with hill sprints and boxing.
‘It doesn’t matter how nice your muscles are, if there is a layer of fat covering them, you will never get to see them,’ Mr Jones said.
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DM did mention how to fix your arms. Buy a PowerSpin device. I googled it and it is a knock-off of the Shake Weight that you can buy in USA. PowerSpin is $35.00. You can buy a Shake Weight for only $12 at Walmart. I've been using it for about a month and have seen my biceps firm up a bit. Triceps take a little longer, although I doubt they will ever be really firm again.
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Utter bilge! Whilst I am not a fan of Denise Welch, I cannot see a single thing wrong with her arms! This is spiteful even for the DM!
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This article was based on making fun of people. It failed to mention how to fix the problem.
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- FLaming_8ball, London, UK, 13/6/2012 15:45 What the hell is having no kids got to do with it ,life is not all about having kids but then a lot of people just want to fill the void with children. Were is the beer belly,bald head,and saggy skin that happen to men when they get old.
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Bingo wings comes from winning at bingo and yelling out BINGO and the top of your arms flap around, try a shake wieght every day for 10 mins. it has helped my wings.
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Am I missing something here, what is this all about, really!!!!
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so how do you banish them? Is this a two part story or did you just forget the best part--the banishining part?
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It's tough to be human.
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Stupid post. Very meaningless.
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The 'How to banish them' section must be following next week then is it?? Great article!!!! Any jobs going in the online DM office cuz i could do better than this tripe with a half hearted attempt...!!
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