Bat Wings

[backpacking5 224]

I'm getting a routine down, finally, with exercising. I get up at 5 a.m. and walk on my treadmill for 30 minutes. Gradually going longer and faster using more of an incline. After I get home from work I am usually too tired to exercise, I am a morning person. I want to start some kind of toning. I am really noticing the 'bat wings' lately and wondering what others have done to tone them. I heard it is best to tone as you go help not have soooo much lose skin. I have two different size hand weights and would like specific exercises or whatever works for you. My space around my treadmill is tight, I have tried to use them on it but some mornings I'm so tired I hold on to the handles real tight and walk with my eyes shut. Kinda silly but I am still walking. Maybe brings a whole new meaning to sleep walking?

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If I could go back in time, I'd start wearing arm weights and working my arms as I walk. I have really bad bat wings and I think part of it is because I lost so much weight but part of it is I totally neglected toning while losing.

[lisacaron 5,075]

Getting a strength and toning routine in place is my goal for this month, along with getting that walking in. Your awesome getting up at 5am to walk. I would sleep walk every day on the tread mil if I could really be sleeping!!! I am sooo not the morning person, I have been trying get up and go to the gym at lunch and/or after work before going home.

I'm going to research some moves to eliminate batwings and speak so some of the physical trainers that teach classes here a couple times a week and I'll let you know what they have to say about toning that area.

November 1st starts tomorrow...I keep telling myself that so I remember to at least pick up the weights once

[cheryl2586 3,053]

Most lose skin will not go away with toning unless your elasticity is good. Its not the muscle that is sagging its the skin and there is not much to help that but plastic surgery.

[Pittsburgher 261]

I have bat wings also. I need to get a good toning workout ready sometime soon. The only lose skin I have is my arms really. Everything else is turning into muscle very nicely

[scootergirl 118]

Most lose skin will not go away with toning unless your elasticity is good. Its not the muscle that is sagging its the skin and there is not much to help that but plastic surgery.

Even if toning doesn't change one single millimeter of bat wing (or other sagging skin) it certainly won't hurt anything. Exercise is great at burning calories and good for everyone. What the heck. Tone away. Can't hurt and may help!

[kj44 215]

Google Katie couric batwings and there's a whole routine from her trainer on how to get rid if them I just started them so I don't have personal results yet.