slimming thighs

lose body fat

There are no exercises that will slim your thighs specifically. You can't target fat reduction. You just need to reduce your overall body fat percentage (with a calorie deficit) and hope that it comes off where you want it to. You can target your muscles, but it sounds like you don't want to do that. The only way to make muscles smaller is to not use them, and let them atrophy.

losing body fat does nothing when you're legs are mostly muscle. therefore any working out will only add More muscle and increase the bulk.

Okay, then you need to lose muscle. So, don't do any exercise, avoid moving your legs too much and eat at an extreme calorie deficit. You'll lose muscle mass.

^Obviously sarcastic.

Chances are, you have more body fat to lose than you think. Have you had it measured? It might be worth looking in to. You can't change the shape of your muscles....no exercise is going to make your leg muscles longer or thinner.

The lady in the picture has thinner legs because she lost FAT that was on top of the muscle - not because the elliptical is a magic machine that makes legs look better.

Have you ever tried any pilates or ballet (pure Barre) exercises?

Also, I read on your profile that one of your goals is to not have your thighs touch any more. That might not be possible at a healthy weight, depending on the structure of your skeleton.

canelly those are some nice legs.

Your body is amazingly adaptable. to slim legs do long distance running/elliptical. anyone seen a single female distance runner with heavily muscled legs?? strong /cut legs yes but big legs?

losing body fat does nothing when you're legs are mostly muscle. therefore any working out will only add More muscle and increase the bulk.

That's just not true. It's extremely hard for women to "increase the bulk" especially when not lifting weights and eating at a calorie surplus. If you lower your body fat %, you will see a reduction in your size all around, including on your thighs. I thought my thighs were mostly muscle, too. But then I started losing body fat and they have gone down 3".

I'm 5'2" as well and have the same "power muscle" issues that you do. Running is doing great things for my legs as yoga. When I was younger I had super solid leg muscles that I had the hardest time finding jeans to fit over them. My jeans would be two sizes too big in the waist so that they would fit over my legs. At least right now, several cuts of jeans are popular so that really helps too.

I been doing the eleptical and the fat on my legs it's just melting! Now their is space between them and getting toned I love my legs now!!

Wow your entire body looks great...Congrats on the transformation...I am inspired to hit up the Elliptical a little bit more....

losing body fat does nothing when you're legs are mostly muscle. therefore any working out will only add More muscle and increase the bulk.

well I am the opposite. I have embraced the fact I have muscular strong legs. My legs show that I lift and I lift heavy and I am proud of them

Maybe embrace what you have and work with that :flowerforyou:

Your body is amazingly adaptable. to slim legs do long distance running/elliptical. anyone seen a single female distance runner with heavily muscled legs?? strong /cut legs yes but big legs?

Which is part of why I started running distance in the last year and a half when I was a sprinter in HS. It uses your muscles sooo differently.

As to the "women don't bulk" thing; some women have a natural heavy muscle build instead of long lean muscle. I naturally get thicker bunchy muscle. My mom calls it quarter horse muscle instead of Arabian (horse) muscles. I wouldn't look like China from WWE without "supplements" but that doesn't mean that I can't naturally get bulkier than many other women.

Hey everyone, So here's my issue. I want to slim down my thighs. I have been active my entire life and all it does is add bulk. I'm 5'2 and I've got a couple of tree trunks for legs (or as my husband calls them "soccer legs") I'm tired of putting jeans on and having them so tight on my legs you can't even pinch the fabric. Any Suggestions of exercises that will slim my thighs?

I used to have this problem. I am only 5'1" and I've always been active and everyone thought it was muscle and big bones. Nope, not so. Fat. And even now in maintenance with my new jeans my weight fluctuates and sometimes I have to adjust my diet slightly to bring it back down slightly. It really is all about calories and losing the fat. Honestly it is. All the tricks and lessons you learn while in the weight loss phase comes into play in maintenance. These are life long skills.

All that matters is calories. A healthy balanced diet within a calorie budget for a deficit that is right for YOU is all that matters for weight loss. Don't make it complicated.

Exercise is for making your lean body mass pretty (especially lifting weights) for when the fat is gone. Losing fat with no muscle is ugly and cardio alone will not make you pretty. You cannot out exercise too many calories.

Your body loses weight in chunks, not linear. I have found that you can do everything right and your weight loss seems to plateau but if you are patient and keep exercising and eating at a deficit (however slight) you will lose it, it will suddenly "whoosh". There are so many variables for the scale; water retention, digestion, hormones, allergies, sodium, carbs, water intake, DOMS, inflammation, the list goes on. People mistakenly think they lose or gain weight when they eat more or less because of these fluctuations.

Losing weight requires tremendous patience. You will not lose it when you want it or where you want it. The body does its thing. Some apparent plateaus can last a month or so. You cannot make it happen faster. You must focus on two things; calories and exercise. Nothing else matters. Scales and metrics don't matter. The day in and day out grind of exercise and calories are all that matters. It is not very exciting until things fall into place. You get your victories and you ride one victory to the next.

The scale is a trend tool. The scale is good but put it away and only check once a week and only use it as a trend tool. It will fluctuate, it does not matter. Take front side and back progress pictures at least once a month. You will see differences that the metrics won't tell you and it's that little bit of NSV that will keep you going until the next victory.

To find the exact calories needed for YOU to be in a healthy sustainable calorie deficit is the right answer. Wait, if you need to adjust by 100 do it, wait, adjust, wait, adjust, wait. The tortoise wins this race.

When you find out tell me...my thighs are the only thing keeping from a size 8. I do 30 day shred, butt bible, and I run but it's barely made a dent. I'm starting to think I might just have to live with them.