Best thigh and tummy exercises?

Katie43210
Katie43210 Posts: 65 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
On a mission to tone my tummy and thighs aswell as lose a stone 😆 give me your best exercises for toning up these areas please 🙏 😁

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  • Chieflrg
    Chieflrg Posts: 9,097 Member
    Toning is a buzz word that really has no definition and was used as marketing to sell products
    One cannot perform a certain lift to spot reduce fat. Fat is lost by being in a caloric deficit and nothing else.

    That doesn't mean one shouldn't resistance train, quite the opposite. One should resistance train at your current individual adaptation to achieve the plethora of benefits under the correct conditions.
  • sarabushby
    sarabushby Posts: 784 Member
    ‘Tone’ will come from having a reduced layer of fat over the muscles so your best bet is to stick to your calorie deficit.
    You could do all the sit ups in the world and still see no definition if there’s a layer of fat over the top. This is hence the phrase ‘Abs are made in the kitchen’.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,204 Member
    ^^ What they said.

    "Toned" is a matter of gaining the right amount of muscle, and losing the right amount of fat for it to show, both of those to the extent that you personally find aesthetically pleasing.

    A good progressive strength training routine that involves compound movements is your best, most efficient route to gaining muscle. If you're thinking it will make you "bulky", that's incorrect. Gaining muscle is a relatively slow thing, and women especially don't get big muscles without working really hard at it for a really long time, and some of us don't have the genetic potential to get "bulky" at all even if we want to.

    If you start strength training, and many months down the road reach an appearance you like, you'll have plenty of time to adjust to a maintenance type of routine to stay there. You won't wake up one morning and suddenly find you've "gotten big".

    A full-body routine will accomplish the core and leg goals you mention, plus more good stuff. Spot reduction doesn't work, and exercising limited areas really doesn't have the same appearance payoff.

    Best wishes!
  • unknownandinsane
    unknownandinsane Posts: 4 Member
    3 ab exercise I like are bear plank pull throughs, weighted Russian twists, and lying leg raises.
  • MsCzar
    MsCzar Posts: 1,071 Member
    I've had ham-hock thighs all my life. Because of that, I always had to buy curvy-cut trousers no matter how small my waist or the number on the scale. Bring on those harem pants! Then I started high-knee jogging on the rebounder (mini trampoline) for 30 minutes every day. It changed the shape of my lower half far beyond mere weight loss. I was happy to get into my smaller sized jeans, but now my thighs swam in them! No more Petunia Pig thighs! No more saddle bags! So yes, I believe you can improve your shape through targeted exercise.
  • Retroguy2000
    Retroguy2000 Posts: 1,847 Member
    unknownandinsane wrote: »
    3 ab exercise I like are bear plank pull throughs, weighted Russian twists, and lying leg raises.
    YMMV, but weighted Russian twists might be risky for some people, due to spine compression while twisting.
  • cupcakegirl81
    cupcakegirl81 Posts: 2,033 Member
    MsCzar wrote: »
    I've had ham-hock thighs all my life. Because of that, I always had to buy curvy-cut trousers no matter how small my waist or the number on the scale. Bring on those harem pants! Then I started high-knee jogging on the rebounder (mini trampoline) for 30 minutes every day. It changed the shape of my lower half far beyond mere weight loss. I was happy to get into my smaller sized jeans, but now my thighs swam in them! No more Petunia Pig thighs! No more saddle bags! So yes, I believe you can improve your shape through targeted exercise.

    That's awesome! I might have to try this! Thanks.
  • unknownandinsane
    unknownandinsane Posts: 4 Member
    Retroguy2000 wrote: »
    unknownandinsane wrote: »
    3 ab exercise I like are bear plank pull throughs, weighted Russian twists, and lying leg raises.
    YMMV, but weighted Russian twists might be risky for some people, due to spine compression while twisting.

    Thanks I didn't know that. I will be cautious with them!
  • Tum22
    Tum22 Posts: 102 Member
    I have diastasis recti which is where there is a gap between my stomach muscles down the middle. What helped me is either a bosu ball turned to stand on the flat side or a balance board. I will try to balance on either one (not both together 🤣) whilst pulling my belly butten in towards my back and just generally shift around and practice balancing. After a few weeks I could balance on one leg! It has slimed my waist but I need to do more. The balance boards are cheap to buy at home but I only used the bosu at the gym as quite costly. Otherwise just generally try to pull your belly button and concentrate on good posture.

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