Thunder thighs!
Dellie22
Posts: 167
I know that when you burn fat, there is no specific area you burn fat more than another, you burn it from all over. But my thighs seem to be the only place on my body that hasn't shrunk. I've lost 6" off my waist, 2" off my hips, 2" off my arms, 3" off my bust and absolutely nothing off my thighs.
Does anyone have any good exercises for the thighs that i can try. Thanks
Does anyone have any good exercises for the thighs that i can try. Thanks
0
Replies
-
Bump! I'd like to know too......0
-
Bump too! I'd love to know!!!!!!0
-
BUMP! Share with me, too!0
-
I have a Pilates Circle. I'm not really sure how much these run because it was given to me. It reminds me quit a bit of the Thigh Master! hah. But I love this thing, it really did show a TON of improvement when I used it religiously. So much that I needed to start an arm routine to compensate.0
-
- 'Thigh dancing' you can check out videos on how to do it on youtube.
- Lower body weight training (Check out the P90X 'Legs and Back')
- Kickboxing is really good for the legs
- Pilates
All of these are great for the legs!0 -
the way your body loses fat is a complex formula drawn up based on genetics, storage, exercise, and need. The reason we cannot tell where we will lose fat is because fat is drawn from the easiest available location first. Since it's easier to "grab" fat from locations nearer to blood vessels, those will be grabbed first, also, fat that is "older" or more compressed, and dense will also be harder to release, so usually, the first fat we put on is the last fat we lose. Again, the formula is complex and different for everyone, but rest assured, eventually, all of it is used (if we work hard enough and long enough). For women there are usually 3 main spots, the butt, the thighs, and the stomach. For guys the stomach and waist area are predominant. But this isn't always the case. again as with anything, the more dense it is, the harder it is to break down. Think of it like water dissolving sugar. if you dump a spoon full of sugar into a glass of water, it's dissolved in a few seconds if you stir. But if you dump the same amount of sugar in the form of a cube into a glass, even when you stir, it can take up to a minute or two to dissolve because there's less surface area available to dissolve the sugar. It's as much to do with surface area as it is with anything. As fat "ages", it becomes more dense. That's why people who've had large fat deposits for most of their life have a harder time losing weight than people who put fat on recently.0
-
yes you can target your fat areas theris a sept challenge with a lot of good exercises on it i join it theri squats lunges leg extensions high knees dead lifts hamstring curls try it you will see a change i have thunder thighs to but by the end of stept i won't0
-
So basically. I just need to put in more effort and it will eventually come off my thighs?
I do Tae Bo 4-5 times a week and it's done wonders for the rest of my body but my thighs are still chunky
0 -
yes you can target your fat areas theris a sept challenge with a lot of good exercises on it i join it theri squats lunges leg extensions high knees dead lifts hamstring curls try it you will see a change i have thunder thighs to but by the end of stept i won't
Sounds interesting, what is the challenge called?
Dellymum, I also do tae bo and I love it. I am enjoying Billy Blanks boot camp at the moment 0 -
september 2010 exercise challenge0
-
I got the box set. I've had it for about a month and half and its helped loads. Boot camp will be my next investment. I love the motivation that Billy gives to spur you on 0
-
Thanks lizzys. I'll look this up now.0
-
i really cant say i have thunder thighs when i lose my weight its my calves they are huge anyway i have to do a major low fat diet so my body pulls the fat it has stored from theri plus with a lot of exercise, it hard you have to take your fat level way down to maybe about 20 grams or under,your body will pull that fat that it needs from your thighs. its how the modeles do it ,it might not be the best way but it dose target your fat areas0
-
i really cant say i have thunder thighs when i lose my weight its my calves they are huge anyway i have to do a major low fat diet so my body pulls the fat it has stored from theri plus with a lot of exercise, it hard you have to take your fat level way down to maybe about 20 grams or under,your body will pull that fat that it needs from your thighs. its how the modeles do it ,it might not be the best way but it dose target your fat areas
How interesting! After reading this, I looked back at my diary for the last few days and I am eating far too much fat. Think I should be doing something about this.0 -
under twenty is not good for you,that why they dont tell you to do that, i would weight tell you get ot your weight or real close to it before i take it down that low and only do it for a couple of weeks but your body dose not need over 30 grams on a 1200 cal diet if your body is getting to much it will store it on your thighs me iM fat in my tummy right now but my tummy i lose easy with abs exercises it my calves where i store even when im skinny0
-
Maybe I'll try to be more specific here. you can target muscle groups for lengthening, strengthening, and increasing mass, but you cannot, in any way, shape, or form, target an area of the body for fat loss. It's physically impossible to do so. If you think about it, it's actually quite obvious why that is the case.
the way the body burns fat is it removes it from an area through the blood stream, brings it to the liver, which metabolizes it and sends the energy to the area's that need it. The body won't care where that fat comes from, it actually sends the "I need energy" message to all parts of the body at once through hormones, and the first place to respond wins (so to speak). The body does not say, "oh I need energy, and my stomach has extra, I'll take it from there". The body is an efficiency engine, it will always use the least amount of energy from the first available source.
there is one very minor caveat to this rule. Intramuscular fat can sometimes be metabolized in VERY small amounts, at the muscle site in times of extreme depletion, but this is very inefficient, and the human body doesn't have a lot of "marbling" in their muscles, we're just not built like that.
hope this helps guys.0 -
yes you can target your fat areas theris a sept challenge with a lot of good exercises on it i join it theri squats lunges leg extensions high knees dead lifts hamstring curls try it you will see a change i have thunder thighs to but by the end of stept i won't
No you cannot. Never could and never will be able to target fat to burn. You can build muscle to create definition, but the fat will come of all of your body.
If you do heaps and heaps of leg exercises to try to reduce the size of your thighs you will be sorely dissapointed as you will build muscle in that area, lose fat across you whole body and your thighs will actually get bigger!0 -
Cosmo had a thigh toning exercise in the September issue...
haven't tried so I'm not sure how effective it is though!0 -
yes you can low fat no fat diet with exercise it will target your fatty area and use it as fuel,models do it all the time,fat puts fat on your body, and sometime it settles in certains areas like the butt thigh calves thats why a no fat diet and exercise helps it will get the fat from where it needs it for fuel like your calves or thighs i have done it before. so i know it dose work its hard to do but you can do ityes you can target your fat areas theris a sept challenge with a lot of good exercises on it i join it theri squats lunges leg extensions high knees dead lifts hamstring curls try it you will see a change i have thunder thighs to but by the end of stept i won't
No you cannot. Never could and never will be able to target fat to burn. You can build muscle to create definition, but the fat will come of all of your body.
If you do heaps and heaps of leg exercises to try to reduce the size of your thighs you will be sorely dissapointed as you will build muscle in that area, lose fat across you whole body and your thighs will actually get bigger!0 -
no that not true because you body puts on weight in different places like your tummy your legs butt and it takes it off in certain places frist like your breast because theris where you have the most fat, stored that your body dose not need personally my body lazys it gets it frist,from the places it is the easestMaybe I'll try to be more specific here. you can target muscle groups for lengthening, strengthening, and increasing mass, but you cannot, in any way, shape, or form, target an area of the body for fat loss. It's physically impossible to do so. If you think about it, it's actually quite obvious why that is the case.
the way the body burns fat is it removes it from an area through the blood stream, brings it to the liver, which metabolizes it and sends the energy to the area's that need it. The body won't care where that fat comes from, it actually sends the "I need energy" message to all parts of the body at once through hormones, and the first place to respond wins (so to speak). The body does not say, "oh I need energy, and my stomach has extra, I'll take it from there". The body is an efficiency engine, it will always use the least amount of energy from the first available source.
there is one very minor caveat to this rule. Intramuscular fat can sometimes be metabolized in VERY small amounts, at the muscle site in times of extreme depletion, but this is very inefficient, and the human body doesn't have a lot of "marbling" in their muscles, we're just not built like that.
hope this helps guys.0 -
yes you can low fat no fat diet with exercise it will target your fatty area and use it as fuel,models do it all the time,fat puts fat on your body, and sometime it settles in certains areas like the butt thigh calves thats why a no fat diet and exercise helps it will get the fat from where it needs it for fuel like your calves or thighs i have done it before. so i know it dose work its hard to do but you can do ityes you can target your fat areas theris a sept challenge with a lot of good exercises on it i join it theri squats lunges leg extensions high knees dead lifts hamstring curls try it you will see a change i have thunder thighs to but by the end of stept i won't
No you cannot. Never could and never will be able to target fat to burn. You can build muscle to create definition, but the fat will come of all of your body.
If you do heaps and heaps of leg exercises to try to reduce the size of your thighs you will be sorely dissapointed as you will build muscle in that area, lose fat across you whole body and your thighs will actually get bigger!
You still have not explained how you target a certain area!!! Low fat/ no fat diet will mean you lose body fat all over. You CANNOT "target" an area so you lose fat off your thighs but not off other parts of your body! You have described general weight loss. You will lose weight from where it is stored which is all over your body. If your body stores ALL of its fat on your thighs then yes, you will lsoe the fat off your thighs, but if you store more fat on your thighs there is nothing you can do to force your body to shed that fat first. It will use the fat from all the fat stores of your body, including your thighs.0 -
your body will take from where it has the fat stored, say your at your goal weight but you notice that your calvs are still fat. you drop you fat grams down below 20 and you exercise the heck out off your calves, with calf raises and your bodys is not getting the fat for fuel it will pull it out of your calves because thats where it stores the execess, it where you have the most and if your bodys not getting any fat its going to go after its storage it will go into almost a stravation where it has to use it up.the exercise helps the process because that where it will go to get is fuel0
-
yes you can low fat no fat diet with exercise it will target your fatty area and use it as fuel,models do it all the time,fat puts fat on your body, and sometime it settles in certains areas like the butt thigh calves thats why a no fat diet and exercise helps it will get the fat from where it needs it for fuel like your calves or thighs i have done it before. so i know it dose work its hard to do but you can do ityes you can target your fat areas theris a sept challenge with a lot of good exercises on it i join it theri squats lunges leg extensions high knees dead lifts hamstring curls try it you will see a change i have thunder thighs to but by the end of stept i won't
No you cannot. Never could and never will be able to target fat to burn. You can build muscle to create definition, but the fat will come of all of your body.
If you do heaps and heaps of leg exercises to try to reduce the size of your thighs you will be sorely dissapointed as you will build muscle in that area, lose fat across you whole body and your thighs will actually get bigger!
first, anecdotal evidence is no evidence at all (saying "it worked for me, so it's true" is not a sound practice). Second, how much fat you have in your diet has very little to do with body fat. They are two completely different things and do not correlate. Third, I have no idea what you are talking about with a no fat diet, a no fat diet is dangerous, and extremely unhealthy, the body requires a certain amount of dietary fat as many vitamins and minerals we digest need dietary fat (called fat soluble vitamins)as a transport medium. Generally, most nutrition experts agree that 12 to 15% of your diet should be fat, with about 85 to 95% of that fat being "good" fats or Omega 3 and Omega 6 fatty acids.
Look, this is standard nutritional science. Ask any qualified trainer or registered dietitian, you'll get the same answer, you can't target fat loss.0 -
no that not true because you body puts on weight in different places like your tummy your legs butt and it takes it off in certain places frist like your breast because theris where you have the most fat, stored that your body dose not need personally my body lazys it gets it frist,from the places it is the easestMaybe I'll try to be more specific here. you can target muscle groups for lengthening, strengthening, and increasing mass, but you cannot, in any way, shape, or form, target an area of the body for fat loss. It's physically impossible to do so. If you think about it, it's actually quite obvious why that is the case.
the way the body burns fat is it removes it from an area through the blood stream, brings it to the liver, which metabolizes it and sends the energy to the area's that need it. The body won't care where that fat comes from, it actually sends the "I need energy" message to all parts of the body at once through hormones, and the first place to respond wins (so to speak). The body does not say, "oh I need energy, and my stomach has extra, I'll take it from there". The body is an efficiency engine, it will always use the least amount of energy from the first available source.
there is one very minor caveat to this rule. Intramuscular fat can sometimes be metabolized in VERY small amounts, at the muscle site in times of extreme depletion, but this is very inefficient, and the human body doesn't have a lot of "marbling" in their muscles, we're just not built like that.
hope this helps guys.
What? this is a very disjointed statement. I mean, you can't just say "no, it's not true" then offer up no explanation as to why if you want credibility. Especially if you're going to set out to disprove one of the most concrete facts in nutrition and sports medicine out today. Look, this is one of the tenants of modern exercise training. You can NOT target fat loss. This is not some myth that I thought up in my spare time, this is a solid, medical fact, based on proven tests and mounds of empirical testing done for the last 50 years. If you like I can point you towards any number of published results from tests done on how body fat is metabolized. But really, there's no need, just ask a personal trainer, or a registered dietitian, or even a GP, they'll all tell you the same thing, you can't target fat loss.0 -
no that not true because you body puts on weight in different places like your tummy your legs butt and it takes it off in certain places frist like your breast because theris where you have the most fat, stored that your body dose not need personally my body lazys it gets it frist,from the places it is the easestMaybe I'll try to be more specific here. you can target muscle groups for lengthening, strengthening, and increasing mass, but you cannot, in any way, shape, or form, target an area of the body for fat loss. It's physically impossible to do so. If you think about it, it's actually quite obvious why that is the case.
the way the body burns fat is it removes it from an area through the blood stream, brings it to the liver, which metabolizes it and sends the energy to the area's that need it. The body won't care where that fat comes from, it actually sends the "I need energy" message to all parts of the body at once through hormones, and the first place to respond wins (so to speak). The body does not say, "oh I need energy, and my stomach has extra, I'll take it from there". The body is an efficiency engine, it will always use the least amount of energy from the first available source.
there is one very minor caveat to this rule. Intramuscular fat can sometimes be metabolized in VERY small amounts, at the muscle site in times of extreme depletion, but this is very inefficient, and the human body doesn't have a lot of "marbling" in their muscles, we're just not built like that.
hope this helps guys.
What? this is a very disjointed statement. I mean, you can't just say "no, it's not true" then offer up no explanation as to why if you want credibility. Especially if you're going to set out to disprove one of the most concrete facts in nutrition and sports medicine out today. Look, this is one of the tenants of modern exercise training. You can NOT target fat loss. This is not some myth that I thought up in my spare time, this is a solid, medical fact, based on proven tests and mounds of empirical testing done for the last 50 years. If you like I can point you towards any number of published results from tests done on how body fat is metabolized. But really, there's no need, just ask a personal trainer, or a registered dietitian, or even a GP, they'll all tell you the same thing, you can't target fat loss.
Lordy, Banks. Just go ahead and give up. You know how people can debate and never 'see the light', lol.0 -
Ha ha your right! Thats why I gave up! I started to write a reply and thought "I can't say anymore than I have"
Now I am off to target the fat on my stomach by doing hundreds of situps... Not sure why but it doesn't seem to be working... LOL0
This discussion has been closed.
Categories
- All Categories
- 1.4M Health, Wellness and Goals
- 393.4K Introduce Yourself
- 43.8K Getting Started
- 260.2K Health and Weight Loss
- 175.9K Food and Nutrition
- 47.4K Recipes
- 232.5K Fitness and Exercise
- 426 Sleep, Mindfulness and Overall Wellness
- 6.5K Goal: Maintaining Weight
- 8.5K Goal: Gaining Weight and Body Building
- 153K Motivation and Support
- 8K Challenges
- 1.3K Debate Club
- 96.3K Chit-Chat
- 2.5K Fun and Games
- 3.7K MyFitnessPal Information
- 24 News and Announcements
- 1.1K Feature Suggestions and Ideas
- 2.6K MyFitnessPal Tech Support Questions