So I have a workout plan. What do you think?
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I think it's a crummy excuse to say that you can't do stuff because you can't make it to a gym. There are a LOT of things you can do for free in your living room that will work you very hard just using your body weight.
Walking is a horrible exercise for toning. It doesn't get your heart rate up high enough to really burn much of anything (unless you're super out of shape, hiking trails, or walking at an incline) and doesn't work any of your muscles in a way that really challenges them. I used to walk everywhere as a kid and would wonder why I was still chubby. Walking is better than nothing, but squats, plyometrics, some yoga, and arm work with 10 lbs dumbbells (which are pretty inexpensive and available at many unexpected places - like WalMart, for example) have been very helpful to me on my journey so far...and from the look of your pic, I was way more out of shape than you when I started.
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This thread was pretty funny (and a very interesting) read. Sometimes, people ask questions because they want to hear what they want to hear. I know; I have been there myself.
And, there is so much misinformation in the media, commonly held wisdom, and just wishful thinking. *Sigh!*
I work out at home. But, without my weights (and the strength training regimen), I might as well not even work out at all.0 -
What do you think? What's your honest opinion and of course eating healthy.The only way to "tone" your thighs is to lose fat over your whole body, thigh exercises won't help. Full body resistance training and a small, gradual caloric deficit is what you want.
I think what Im doing is perfectly fine. I've lost weight before and it made my thighs even more flappy so your wrong. Thanks for your opinion but I know what I'm doing,
So what you should have said originally is, "hey, this is what I'm doing. Tell me I'm doing it right because I don't want to hear your opinion of you disagree with me and offer me rational advice."0 -
lol at the answers.
Im not trying to be rude or anything, but to be honest, walking isn't going to tone your arms/legs. Unless, you are walking up a mountain, or at an incline. There are maaanny exercises you can do without a gym! just look some up:) or you could do insanity/p90x or pretty much any video. just search them on google, and watch the free ones
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I believe you were looking for exercises that don't require a gym. Someone here recommended "You Are Your Own Gym" and I'd just like to second that 0
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The only way to "tone" your thighs is to lose fat over your whole body, thigh exercises won't help. Full body resistance training and a small, gradual caloric deficit is what you want.
I think what Im doing is perfectly fine. I've lost weight before and it made my thighs even more flappy so your wrong. Walking tones your legs because your working your legs when your walking and me doing the exercises for my legs will work. I've spoken to people about my thighs and they say do squats or lunges which is exactly what I'll be doing. I'm exercising so I'm sure I'll get the legs I want. I'm also eating healthy and my caloric deficit is fine. Thanks for your opinion but I know what I'm doing,
If you know what you are doing, why did you ask?
Walker's thighs:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/dietandfitness/5777368/Mall-walking-window-shop-till-you-drop.html
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If you want to get more toned I would try and lift with light weights and do many reps three times a week (3 sets of 15 reps give and take, depending on the lift). Lifting with weights is really good for toning muscles. If you're eating well and doing some light weights and staying fit, don't worry about your weight, just keep and eye on it and focus on toning. If you start to gain a lot of weight then lighten the weights. Always make sure you drink enough water and eat enough to recover from the workout. I've been interested in doing the same thing and have been experimenting for a couple of years. I'm a DII college athlete so I have a lot of personal experience with this type of workout. Everyone's body is different though so you'll have to keep an eye on it and adjust it as you go. Good Luck! 0
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This thread contains everything I love about mfp0
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The only way to "tone" your thighs is to LOSE FAT over your whole body, thigh exercises won't help. Full body resistance training and a small, gradual caloric deficit is what you want.I think what Im doing is perfectly fine. I've LOST WEIGHT before and it made my thighs even more flappy so your wrong.
Losing fat and losing weight are not the same thing. Full body resistance training will help preserve lean body mass to mitigate the undesirable appearance of the skin on your thighs as you lose fat, if you have a caloric deficit and do indeed lose fat that is. Chances are, though, that genetics will play a large role and that your thighs will probably not change appearance significantly without extraordinary dedication and discipline, and perhaps not even then. I can't know for sure, but your thighs probably look fine the way they are and health and general fitness might be a more fruitful goal for you.
Hey, walking is great for health and general fitness, so there you go. It would be a good idea to gradually increase the intensity, though, which will eventually lead to running. Running is awesome.
I look forward to reading about how wrong I am.0 -
I know what I'm doing but I'm going to ask for opinions.0
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Well I came to give advice but it seems like you've got it all figured out. Best of luck with all your health and fitness goals. :flowerforyou:0
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Of course I want to tone my arms that's why I'm speed walking everyday.
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I'm obviously eating very healthy and I'll have a cheat meal once a week only. The main thing I want to change about my body is maybe drop a little weight since I don't have much to lose. I plan to tone my thighs because their flappy and they have strech marks so I want them tight and I'll be toning my but too.
This is my workout for everyday,
Walk beyond a mile in my community every morning and the next day do Butt and Thigh workouts in my house. So for example this day go walking and the next day do my leg workout. Basically one day walk and the next the leg workouts.
What do you think? What's your honest opinion and of course eating healthy.
For my thigh stretch marks I'm applying coco butter so that's going to help.
Tomorrow I'm starting my leg workout in the morning for the first time and I'm excited. I've been walking everyday so far since Tuesday and I've been eating very healthy.:bigsmile:
Hi there. I thought I'd add my two cents here. I want a firmer, higher butt and toned legs, too. I do a variety of leg/butt exercises for this. Do you have stairs in your house or nearby? Try adding a stair climbing exercise into your routine. Once or twice a week, I will climb my stairs for 30 minutes at a time. I just recently started climbing every OTHER stair, which really boosted the difficulty level. 30 minutes of that and I thought my legs were going to collapse from under me. It was awesome.
I also ride my recumbent bike while I do laundry. It takes about 30 minutes for a load in the washer, and 45 min for a load in the dryer. I play this little mental game where I try to time the end of the dryer cycle with the end of my bike riding. Silly, I know, but it gets BOTH things accomplished.
I also take or do Zumba once a week, sometimes twice a week. And, I'll go for an outdoor bike ride for 45 minutes once a week as well.
I think you have a good start, but I'd put in some more variety if I were you, to avoid becoming bored. Also, from what I have heard, a variety of exercises uses various muscle groups in no specific order. This means the muscles are tricked into being worked in different ways, thereby more effectively working them better.0 -
Im surprised no one mentioned that sooner. You cant tone your arms by walking. :noway:
Push ups, body weight squats, lunges all will help if you cant get to a gym currently.
Quit making excuses for not getting to a gym. If getting healthy is important, youll find the time and money.
Lemme see....
Do I pay my bills....or pay for a superfluous gym membership when I can work out at home for free????
I'll take the gym membership, because THAT makes more sense.0 -
Where is the rest of your workout?
What about:
Bi's
Tri's
Shoulders
Back
Chest
???
IMO you have a very unbalanced workout plan.0 -
Im surprised no one mentioned that sooner. You cant tone your arms by walking. :noway:
Push ups, body weight squats, lunges all will help if you cant get to a gym currently.
Quit making excuses for not getting to a gym. If getting healthy is important, youll find the time and money.
Lemme see....
Do I pay my bills....or pay for a superfluous gym membership when I can work out at home for free????
I'll take the gym membership, because THAT makes more sense.
Thank you! That was an incredibly rude and insensitive comment. Some people HAVE to make the choice of paying their bills or having gas to get to work rather than paying for a gym membership. It doesn't mean at all the their health isn't important to them.0 -
Im surprised no one mentioned that sooner. You cant tone your arms by walking. :noway:
Push ups, body weight squats, lunges all will help if you cant get to a gym currently.
Quit making excuses for not getting to a gym. If getting healthy is important, youll find the time and money.
Lemme see....
Do I pay my bills....or pay for a superfluous gym membership when I can work out at home for free????
I'll take the gym membership, because THAT makes more sense.
Thank you! That was an incredibly rude and insensitive comment. Some people HAVE to make the choice of paying their bills or having gas to get to work rather than paying for a gym membership. It doesn't mean at all the their health isn't important to them.
I agree. Honestly, the thought of me going to a gym to workout is ridiculous. There is so much preening and strutting around by a bunch of people who go there more to be seen and admired by others, than just for an honest, sweat pouring workout.
Some gyms are nothing more than glorified pick up joints. BLECH.
PS: NOT saying anyone on here is one of "those people" I mention above.0 -
Im surprised no one mentioned that sooner. You cant tone your arms by walking. :noway:
Push ups, body weight squats, lunges all will help if you cant get to a gym currently.
Quit making excuses for not getting to a gym. If getting healthy is important, youll find the time and money.
Lemme see....
Do I pay my bills....or pay for a superfluous gym membership when I can work out at home for free????
I'll take the gym membership, because THAT makes more sense.
Thank you! That was an incredibly rude and insensitive comment. Some people HAVE to make the choice of paying their bills or having gas to get to work rather than paying for a gym membership. It doesn't mean at all the their health isn't important to them.
I agree. Honestly, the thought of me going to a gym to workout is ridiculous. There is so much preening and strutting around by a bunch of people who go there more to be seen and admired by others, than just for an honest, sweat pouring workout.
Some gyms are nothing more than glorified pick up joints. BLECH.
PS: NOT saying anyone on here is one of "those people" I mention above.
Then you're going to the wrong gym.0 -
Of course I want to tone my arms that's why I'm speed walking everyday.
the what now!?
Your response made me LOL. :flowerforyou: :laugh:0 -
Im surprised no one mentioned that sooner. You cant tone your arms by walking. :noway:
Push ups, body weight squats, lunges all will help if you cant get to a gym currently.
Quit making excuses for not getting to a gym. If getting healthy is important, youll find the time and money.
Lemme see....
Do I pay my bills....or pay for a superfluous gym membership when I can work out at home for free????
I'll take the gym membership, because THAT makes more sense.
Thank you! That was an incredibly rude and insensitive comment. Some people HAVE to make the choice of paying their bills or having gas to get to work rather than paying for a gym membership. It doesn't mean at all the their health isn't important to them.
I agree. Honestly, the thought of me going to a gym to workout is ridiculous. There is so much preening and strutting around by a bunch of people who go there more to be seen and admired by others, than just for an honest, sweat pouring workout.
Some gyms are nothing more than glorified pick up joints. BLECH.
PS: NOT saying anyone on here is one of "those people" I mention above.
Then you're going to the wrong gym.
Correction - I've BEEN to the wrong gym. That's why I workout at home. Around here, it's either that kind of gym, or one that smells so bad from the workout sweat hanging in the air, that I feel the need to scrub my lungs when I get home.0 -
With all due respect the workout program you proposed doesn't seem like it's going to do much. If you want your workouts to have a significant impact on your body, you need to be operating at an intensity level that induces muscle fatigue in a regularly short period of time. Also, contrary to what women have been taught over the years, workouts that consists primarily of isolation exercises that specifically target the buns and thighs are not the ideal way of working the buns and thighs. Weighted squats, weighted lunges, deadlifts, sprints, and plyometrics are the best way.0
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I've been to 4 and I have to kind of agree...they've all been very pickup jointish. Even the personal trainers I know treat their jobs like pickup joints....Though I have to admit a while ago when a cute buff football player doing yoga stopped what he was doing to ask me about weight lifting, it was adorable.Im surprised no one mentioned that sooner. You cant tone your arms by walking. :noway:
Push ups, body weight squats, lunges all will help if you cant get to a gym currently.
Quit making excuses for not getting to a gym. If getting healthy is important, youll find the time and money.
Lemme see....
Do I pay my bills....or pay for a superfluous gym membership when I can work out at home for free????
I'll take the gym membership, because THAT makes more sense.
Thank you! That was an incredibly rude and insensitive comment. Some people HAVE to make the choice of paying their bills or having gas to get to work rather than paying for a gym membership. It doesn't mean at all the their health isn't important to them.
I agree. Honestly, the thought of me going to a gym to workout is ridiculous. There is so much preening and strutting around by a bunch of people who go there more to be seen and admired by others, than just for an honest, sweat pouring workout.
Some gyms are nothing more than glorified pick up joints. BLECH.
PS: NOT saying anyone on here is one of "those people" I mention above.
Then you're going to the wrong gym.0 -
Okay so I'll try to avoid the snark in this thread as much as possible and just provide an opinion.
Go ahead and walk. Walking is good for your heart, but it won't help your thighs and butt so much. I ran 20 miles a week for a year and my butt and thighs just got more flabby as I lost weight.
So to fix this, I kept running because I love it. You shouldn't stop something you enjoy because you aren't seeing the results you want. Happy is part of the battle as well. So keep walking but add strength training.
I can't go to the gym either. I'm a full time working single mom of a 3 yearold. So I use the You Are Your Own Gym program via the ap and do body weight strength at home. This has been helping. It's a full body program so I think this would work for you too. Lots of squats and lunges and pushups and what not. And the program is progressive, the moves get more challenging as time goes on so you can continue to see results for awhile.0 -
I think what Im doing is perfectly fine. I've lost weight before and it made my thighs even more flappy so your wrong. Walking tones your legs because your working your legs when your walking and me doing the exercises for my legs will work. I've spoken to people about my thighs and they say do squats or lunges which is exactly what I'll be doing. I'm exercising so I'm sure I'll get the legs I want. I'm also eating healthy and my caloric deficit is fine. Thanks for your opinion but I know what I'm doing,
If you think what you are doing is "perfectly fine" and are going to tell people who disagree with you that they are wrong, then why bother posting at all? You ASKED for opinions. If you don't really want them, why go through the trouble of asking?
Just keep doing what you are doing since it is quite obvious that you know better than any of the rest of us and won't change what you're doing anyway.
First you come on here asking for help, then argue with anyone trying to help you that you know what you are doing.
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I'm obviously eating very healthy and I'll have a cheat meal once a week only. The main thing I want to change about my body is maybe drop a little weight since I don't have much to lose. I plan to tone my thighs because their flappy and they have strech marks so I want them tight and I'll be toning my but too.
This is my workout for everyday,
Walk beyond a mile in my community every morning and the next day do Butt and Thigh workouts in my house. So for example this day go walking and the next day do my leg workout. Basically one day walk and the next the leg workouts.
What do you think? What's your honest opinion and of course eating healthy.
For my thigh stretch marks I'm applying coco butter so that's going to help.
Tomorrow I'm starting my leg workout in the morning for the first time and I'm excited. I've been walking everyday so far since Tuesday and I've been eating very healthy.:bigsmile:
Hi there. I thought I'd add my two cents here. I want a firmer, higher butt and toned legs, too. I do a variety of leg/butt exercises for this. Do you have stairs in your house or nearby? Try adding a stair climbing exercise into your routine. Once or twice a week, I will climb my stairs for 30 minutes at a time. I just recently started climbing every OTHER stair, which really boosted the difficulty level. 30 minutes of that and I thought my legs were going to collapse from under me. It was awesome.
I also ride my recumbent bike while I do laundry. It takes about 30 minutes for a load in the washer, and 45 min for a load in the dryer. I play this little mental game where I try to time the end of the dryer cycle with the end of my bike riding. Silly, I know, but it gets BOTH things accomplished.
I also take or do Zumba once a week, sometimes twice a week. And, I'll go for an outdoor bike ride for 45 minutes once a week as well.
I think you have a good start, but I'd put in some more variety if I were you, to avoid becoming bored. Also, from what I have heard, a variety of exercises uses various muscle groups in no specific order. This means the muscles are tricked into being worked in different ways, thereby more effectively working them better.
Speaking of stairs I liv in a two story house hahaha0 -
Guys seriously stop arguing with me about what I did wrong, yes I asked for their opinions and I responded in a rude way. Sorry but can you guys stop attacking me?0
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Also NO I don't have a job to go to the gym so I'm not being lazy.yes I've applied but nobody is hiring me.0
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Also NO I don't have a job to go to the gym so I'm not being lazy.yes I've applied but nobody is hiring me.
please can you explain how power walking tones arms... i REALLY need to know!0 -
Okay so I'll try to avoid the snark in this thread as much as possible and just provide an opinion.
Go ahead and walk. Walking is good for your heart, but it won't help your thighs and butt so much. I ran 20 miles a week for a year and my butt and thighs just got more flabby as I lost weight.
So to fix this, I kept running because I love it. You shouldn't stop something you enjoy because you aren't seeing the results you want. Happy is part of the battle as well. So keep walking but add strength training.
I can't go to the gym either. I'm a full time working single mom of a 3 yearold. So I use the You Are Your Own Gym program via the ap and do body weight strength at home. This has been helping. It's a full body program so I think this would work for you too. Lots of squats and lunges and pushups and what not. And the program is progressive, the moves get more challenging as time goes on so you can continue to see results for awhile.
Thank you for your mature response. Not everybody can go to the gym and I can't because one I'm still in high school and all the jobs I've applied to wont hire me. I'll take your advice. 0
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