What is toning?
LiftAllThePizzas
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I see this term used all the time, can someone explain what it's supposed to mean?
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is it like when you check the tuning on the piano?0
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It's a nonsense word designed to appeal to uninformed people.
With respect to weight training..there is a pervasive MYTH that somehow there is a different lifting strategy for getting huge muscles or just a little gain or "muscle tone".
For women, especially those new to weight training, have no chance whatsoever of getting "big" or "bulky" by lifting too heavy of weights or too intense training. This is one of those silly myths that women can get "big" by weight training.
All you get by weight training is a smokin body lol. And the ability to do more stuff in life.0 -
I'm starting to learn toning is just something the fitness industry made up.0
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toning = fat loss. If you talk to people who use the word you will usually figure out they are not particularly well informed.0
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Or maybe when you pick up the phone to see if the line's connected?is it like when you check the tuning on the piano?0 -
Toning is what you do when you don't want to exercise0
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The dictionary says: to give firmness to the desired area of your body.
Is viagra for toning then?0 -
Muscle tone refers to a muscle's tension at rest.0
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Ahthankyou.The dictionary says: to give firmness to the desired area of your body.
Is viagra for toning then?0 -
I don't think it's right to assume that people who aspire to "tone up" are people who don't want to exercise. If someone said "Hey I lost x amount of pounds and now I want to tone up" I certainly wouldn't put them down for using the "wrong" term. I can get what they're saying without being a snob anout it.0
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It's a marketing ploy used by exercise fads that claim to lengthen muscles by using low resistance high rep exercises - or stretching.0
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I see this term used all the time, can someone explain what it's supposed to mean?
Something for your printer (I think).0 -
I think it is supposed to be maintaining and conditioning the muscle you have while still on a cal deficit to strip fat away.0
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Toning is what people do when they are too scared or too lazy to lift heavy or too ill-informed know that this is what they should do.
A buzz word that has been created by the fitness industry to convince women to do low weights for high reps. I don't blame the women using it I blame the industry and every single trainer that has every given this type of advice for allowing it to be perpetuated.0 -
It's a word some people like to use to describe decreasing body fat percentage.0
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Why doesn't anyone make fun of "shredded?"
It's not like that is a real physiological term either, and its not like people are actually using two forks to pull their Ab muscles apart like a well cooked brisket......0 -
isn't toning something you do to a musical instrument..?0
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Why doesn't anyone make fun of "shredded?"
It's not like that is a real physiological term either, and its not like people are actually using two forks to pull their Ab muscles apart like a well cooked brisket......
because if you are shredded you are a bad as$ ....who wants to be toned when you can be shredded?0 -
its not like people are actually using two forks to pull their Ab muscles apart
Unfortunately I have been unable to find any toning forks for sale, for either purpose.isn't toning something you do to a musical instrument..?0 -
its not like people are actually using two forks to pull their Ab muscles apart
Unfortunately I have been unable to find any toning forks for sale, for either purpose.isn't toning something you do to a musical instrument..?
Did you try ebay?0 -
Some made up thing that the fitness industry likes to throw at women to scare them away from real strength training.0
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I take it as someone who's not necessarily trying to decrease their weight or reduce the overall mass of their body, but rather is trying to firm themselves up. You can be thin and at a healthy BMI and still have lots of jiggly fat.0
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ebay, ibey, obey, all the vowels. And all the rivers and lists.its not like people are actually using two forks to pull their Ab muscles apart
Unfortunately I have been unable to find any toning forks for sale, for either purpose.isn't toning something you do to a musical instrument..?
Did you try ebay?0 -
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I don't think it's right to assume that people who aspire to "tone up" are people who don't want to exercise. If someone said "Hey I lost x amount of pounds and now I want to tone up" I certainly wouldn't put them down for using the "wrong" term. I can get what they're saying without being a snob anout it.
Not being a snob. Not putting anyone down.
I've just never been inspired, prior to my workout, with the statement, "I'm going to tone hard today!"
"Toning" just doesn't sound like hard work to me. I can get what they are saying also. They are saying, "I'd really like to have some muscle definition, I just don't want to work real hard at it." Not a put down, or a snobbish remark, that's just what I hear them saying. Your mileage may vary.
Whenever you hear someone use the term "toning," its a teachable moment.0 -
toning = ten pound dumbbells at 20 reps...0
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Whenever you hear someone use the term "toning," its a teachable moment.
I genuinely hate the word.
It's only really used by people who have no idea what they mean by it. Or they know what the "look" they want is, but think it has to do with isolation exercises rather than bf%. Or whatever. I've seen it abused myriad ways.......
....strictly speaking "muscle tone (residual muscle tension or tonus) is the continuous and passive partial contraction of the muscles"
- it's what provides the constant background muscular tension necessary to stop you continuously falling over.0 -
I think its just the female verion of getting``ripped.`` Most girls don`t wanna be ``ripped,`` it`s just not feminine...0
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It's a nonsense word designed to appeal to uninformed people.
With respect to weight training..there is a pervasive MYTH that somehow there is a different lifting strategy for getting huge muscles or just a little gain or "muscle tone".
For women, especially those new to weight training, have no chance whatsoever of getting "big" or "bulky" by lifting too heavy of weights or too intense training. This is one of those silly myths that women can get "big" by weight training.
All you get by weight training is a smokin body lol. And the ability to do more stuff in life.
ding! I can deadlift around 100lbs, coworkers (all women) look at me and always say "careful or you will bulk up"
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Fixed it for you.toning = pink, two pound dumbbells at 20 reps...0
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