How To Tone Your Body

Advice about toning exercises is everywhere and promises you that toning is the way to firm arms, legs and all the other body parts. Here is why most of what you are told about it can’t work and how to tone your body for real.

Toning The Right Way

I have yet to encounter a gym where I don’t see someone using tiny weights and doing one repetition after another with it; 50, 100, sometimes even 200. When asked why the usual reply is, “I just want to tone my…” and you fill in the blank with whatever body part was subjected to the treatment.

What you really need to do to get the look you want is reduce the fat layer that covers your muscles and exercise with weights that are big enough to be challenging:

How To Get Started

For those of you wanting to get started on this real toning, here is a general home workout plan and here is one designed especially for women who want to do their “toning” exercises at home. You can of course only use the parts from these plans that address your “problem areas”, but I’d say you get the best results if you train your entire physique.

Of course, those workouts burn calories, but you also might want to have a look at the tips about weight control you can find in this article.

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