Thin my thighs

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  • raingirl21
    raingirl21 Posts: 167 Member
    OP I also have muscular legs, I'd like them to be thinner but I also know they aren't going to be super thin. I'm built with bigger legs; I'll always be a pear shape. I'd suggest yoga and cardio but weight training also. There isn't one instant fix. Personally, I try to just be happy with my progress thus far and keep going.
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    I am generally curious as to how and why people are saying that yoga is going to slim out thighs???????
  • whmscll
    whmscll Posts: 2,254 Member
    @amgerbin I loved, loved, loved your reply... On my first post to myfitnesspal I mentioned I wanted to get toned, and I got a lecture on how muscles can't be toned. I'm just a novice to the world of exercise and all I am looking for is what has work for other too. Thanks for the common sense.



    Sheesh, me, too! I said "toned" and got a bunch of condescending, negative comments that made me feel awful. I don't know why some people on here turn everything into a negative argument. You just have to skip those posts and focus on the ones that are helpful.
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    whmscll wrote: »
    @amgerbin I loved, loved, loved your reply... On my first post to myfitnesspal I mentioned I wanted to get toned, and I got a lecture on how muscles can't be toned. I'm just a novice to the world of exercise and all I am looking for is what has work for other too. Thanks for the common sense.



    Sheesh, me, too! I said "toned" and got a bunch of condescending, negative comments that made me feel awful. I don't know why some people on here turn everything into a negative argument. You just have to skip those posts and focus on the ones that are helpful.

    so posts that share the actual science of fitness and nutrition are not helpful?
  • eeejer
    eeejer Posts: 339 Member
  • ew_david
    ew_david Posts: 3,473 Member
    edited February 2016
    whmscll wrote: »
    @amgerbin I loved, loved, loved your reply... On my first post to myfitnesspal I mentioned I wanted to get toned, and I got a lecture on how muscles can't be toned. I'm just a novice to the world of exercise and all I am looking for is what has work for other too. Thanks for the common sense.



    Sheesh, me, too! I said "toned" and got a bunch of condescending, negative comments that made me feel awful. I don't know why some people on here turn everything into a negative argument. You just have to skip those posts and focus on the ones that are helpful.

    Just because responses aren't slathered in sugar does not make them unhelpful or make people mean. Most of the time, the reason you get straighforward responses is because the question has been asked 4390532890749032849 times in these forums. If you are discredited by someone with actual, factual data well, then you are wrong.

    OP, I don't see horribly bulky legs in your PP, but if you're worried about them being bulky, don't work them.
  • devil_in_a_blue_dress
    devil_in_a_blue_dress Posts: 5,214 Member
    I mean, the only way to lose muscle and size is lose weight until to comes off your legs. That might not be a wise course.

    Without seeing pictures of you, it's hard to really give you advice.
  • ew_david
    ew_david Posts: 3,473 Member
    ndj1979 wrote: »
    I am generally curious as to how and why people are saying that yoga is going to slim out thighs???????

    Have you been to a yoga class? The word "lengthen" is said no less than 30 times. :D
  • whmscll
    whmscll Posts: 2,254 Member
    _dracarys_ wrote: »
    whmscll wrote: »
    @amgerbin I loved, loved, loved your reply... On my first post to myfitnesspal I mentioned I wanted to get toned, and I got a lecture on how muscles can't be toned. I'm just a novice to the world of exercise and all I am looking for is what has work for other too. Thanks for the common sense.



    Sheesh, me, too! I said "toned" and got a bunch of condescending, negative comments that made me feel awful. I don't know why some people on here turn everything into a negative argument. You just have to skip those posts and focus on the ones that are helpful.

    Just because responses aren't slathered in sugar does not make them unhelpful or make people mean. Most of the time, the reason you get straighforward responses is because the question has been asked 4390532890749032849 times in these forums. If you are discredited by someone with actual, factual data well, then you are wrong.

    OP, I don't see horribly bulky legs in your PP, but if you're worried about them being bulky, don't work them.

    I rest my case.
  • senecarr
    senecarr Posts: 5,377 Member
    ndj1979 wrote: »
    whmscll wrote: »
    @amgerbin I loved, loved, loved your reply... On my first post to myfitnesspal I mentioned I wanted to get toned, and I got a lecture on how muscles can't be toned. I'm just a novice to the world of exercise and all I am looking for is what has work for other too. Thanks for the common sense.



    Sheesh, me, too! I said "toned" and got a bunch of condescending, negative comments that made me feel awful. I don't know why some people on here turn everything into a negative argument. You just have to skip those posts and focus on the ones that are helpful.

    so posts that share the actual science of fitness and nutrition are not helpful?

    Somehow I didn't take her post to mean she was claiming the people that won't listen to explanations of how things actually work are the negative ones, so...
  • senecarr
    senecarr Posts: 5,377 Member
    _dracarys_ wrote: »
    ndj1979 wrote: »
    I am generally curious as to how and why people are saying that yoga is going to slim out thighs???????

    Have you been to a yoga class? The word "lengthen" is said no less than 30 times. :D

    Most of what gets said in a yoga class gets drown out by my internal monologue to myself of "don't call it downward facing doggy-style, don't call it downward facing doggy-style, don't..."
  • ew_david
    ew_david Posts: 3,473 Member
    whmscll wrote: »
    _dracarys_ wrote: »
    whmscll wrote: »
    @amgerbin I loved, loved, loved your reply... On my first post to myfitnesspal I mentioned I wanted to get toned, and I got a lecture on how muscles can't be toned. I'm just a novice to the world of exercise and all I am looking for is what has work for other too. Thanks for the common sense.



    Sheesh, me, too! I said "toned" and got a bunch of condescending, negative comments that made me feel awful. I don't know why some people on here turn everything into a negative argument. You just have to skip those posts and focus on the ones that are helpful.

    Just because responses aren't slathered in sugar does not make them unhelpful or make people mean. Most of the time, the reason you get straighforward responses is because the question has been asked 4390532890749032849 times in these forums. If you are discredited by someone with actual, factual data well, then you are wrong.

    OP, I don't see horribly bulky legs in your PP, but if you're worried about them being bulky, don't work them.

    I rest my case.

    I'm sorry you let internet responses make you feel awful. I learned a lot by lurking the forums so that I could avoid the experience you had. Still, people who give it straight are not wrong.
  • singingflutelady
    singingflutelady Posts: 8,736 Member
    whmscll wrote: »
    _dracarys_ wrote: »
    whmscll wrote: »
    @amgerbin I loved, loved, loved your reply... On my first post to myfitnesspal I mentioned I wanted to get toned, and I got a lecture on how muscles can't be toned. I'm just a novice to the world of exercise and all I am looking for is what has work for other too. Thanks for the common sense.



    Sheesh, me, too! I said "toned" and got a bunch of condescending, negative comments that made me feel awful. I don't know why some people on here turn everything into a negative argument. You just have to skip those posts and focus on the ones that are helpful.

    Just because responses aren't slathered in sugar does not make them unhelpful or make people mean. Most of the time, the reason you get straighforward responses is because the question has been asked 4390532890749032849 times in these forums. If you are discredited by someone with actual, factual data well, then you are wrong.

    OP, I don't see horribly bulky legs in your PP, but if you're worried about them being bulky, don't work them.

    I rest my case.

    Wow she didn't say anything wrong at all. Just pointing out how much misinformation is out there and that it gets annoying seeing it every day and when you correct it you are called mean because you want to actually help the person instead of just blindly supporting their misinformation.

    I suppose you believe that we should just go along with your misinformation instead of giving you correct information?
  • jemhh
    jemhh Posts: 14,261 Member
    jemhh wrote: »
    amgerbin wrote: »
    I don't know the physiology behind it and I don't care. All I know is that my thighs are leaner and appear smoother after I've kicked it up with my yoga.

    Why does everything need to be an argument? She was asking for ideas that have worked for others; not a thesis paper. Relax everyone.

    I asked for clarification., not for an argument. Words have meanings. "Muscles appear longer" doesn't mean "my thighs are leaner and appear smoother." How is anybody supposed to understand that was what you mean?

    Welcome to the world of trying to understand women....

    And just what is THAT supposed to mean?

    (kidding)
  • brianpperkins
    brianpperkins Posts: 6,124 Member
    whmscll wrote: »
    _dracarys_ wrote: »
    whmscll wrote: »
    @amgerbin I loved, loved, loved your reply... On my first post to myfitnesspal I mentioned I wanted to get toned, and I got a lecture on how muscles can't be toned. I'm just a novice to the world of exercise and all I am looking for is what has work for other too. Thanks for the common sense.



    Sheesh, me, too! I said "toned" and got a bunch of condescending, negative comments that made me feel awful. I don't know why some people on here turn everything into a negative argument. You just have to skip those posts and focus on the ones that are helpful.

    Just because responses aren't slathered in sugar does not make them unhelpful or make people mean. Most of the time, the reason you get straighforward responses is because the question has been asked 4390532890749032849 times in these forums. If you are discredited by someone with actual, factual data well, then you are wrong.

    OP, I don't see horribly bulky legs in your PP, but if you're worried about them being bulky, don't work them.

    I rest my case.

    If you rest your case based upon that, I'm wondering exactly what your point is. Nothing in the posts here was negative and if you "feel awful" based on the injection of fact into the discussion ... well, that is on you. The posts filled with fact and science are the actual helpful ones. The blindly enabling posts and those filled with what is at best pseudoscience are not.

  • StencilChild
    StencilChild Posts: 60 Member
    jemhh wrote: »
    jemhh wrote: »
    amgerbin wrote: »
    I don't know the physiology behind it and I don't care. All I know is that my thighs are leaner and appear smoother after I've kicked it up with my yoga.

    Why does everything need to be an argument? She was asking for ideas that have worked for others; not a thesis paper. Relax everyone.

    I asked for clarification., not for an argument. Words have meanings. "Muscles appear longer" doesn't mean "my thighs are leaner and appear smoother." How is anybody supposed to understand that was what you mean?

    Welcome to the world of trying to understand women....

    And just what is THAT supposed to mean?

    (kidding)

    Hahaha, not constructive at all, but I HAD to say it!