Toning thighs??

mizzlarabee wrote: »

PhysicsOnIce wrote: »

alyhuggan wrote: »

PhysicsOnIce wrote: »

randomtai wrote: »

myfitterlife wrote: »

Of course, you can't spot reduce fat by training an area, but you can definitely sculpt it!

No just no.

Can you clarify what you mean?
There is absolutely nothing wrong with the above statement. You won't be sculpting fat, you'll be sculpting muscle, which means more muscle which will help burn more calories and in the long run help reduce some of the fat around the thighs. No-one is saying that you can sculpt fat, but you can sculpt and gain muscle in the desired areas.

Sculpt muscle? As rabbitjb stated muscle can only grow and shrink. You can't "sculpt" or "tone", these are made up words.

Once fat starts coming off certain areas the muscle underneath will start becoming more noticeable (what you think the word toning means)

Sculpting, I don't even know what this is meant to mean? You are right that you can gain muscle in certain areas but you cannot choose how it grows, that is decided by your genetics...

No one is saying you can choose to how to grow muscle. You can simply grow muscle, that is obvious and the official definition of sculpting, see below! And the OP, was asking if there is anything she can do to lose inches in her thighs.

As for the word choices
Tone: definition 9 in the Webster's dictionary states:
a : the state of a living body or of any of its organs or parts in which the functions are healthy and performed with due vigor
b : normal tension or responsiveness to stimuli; specifically : muscular tonus

And before you go of barking that at is a common usage of the words, sport doctors can test for the responsiveness of your muscles due to stimuli, with the use of electrodes and determine if they are within normal levels. This is just an expensive procedure because it is essentially an EKG for your muscles.

Scuplting also in Webster's Dictionary
: to make (something) by carving or molding clay, stone, etc. : to make (a sculpture)
: to make (a part of your body) more muscular by doing exercises

There is no mention of a specific shape. The above definition is what I mean by sculpting muscle, i.e. grow muscle.

Can we please stop using the words "sculpt" and "tone"? As a personal trainer, those are two concepts that I want to kill with fire.

And they added "bromance" and "obvs" in the dictionary, but we can all agree that those won't fly in a game of Scrabble, so I'm hardly moved by the colloquial definitions.

Tone in a muscle is the state that the muscle fibres are currently in -- contracted or relaxed. You are talking about two things when you speak about "toning": hypertrophy, which involves an increase in size of the cells in the muscle fibres, and fat loss, which was already explained to the OP.