"Toning" is a deception
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Awesome !!!! Thank you.
The industry is good at marketing to women by using a word toning. But if it gets them to lift weights, great.
Toning is weight lifting. (correct?)
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I guess I see it more as description than action.
I want to be heavy, I want to be thin, I want to be tone.
eat more, eat less, lift weights.
I totally agree. When someone wants to "tone", I take it to mean they don't want to jiggle when they wiggle.
I have no doubt that the industry turned it into marketing drivel, but "toning" as a description or a goal does exist. Toning comes from the word for "tension", you want to firm your body up without increasing size aka build muscle+lose fat.
The real myths are the "toning" and "lengthening" exercises which fool people into thinking muscles can magically be shaped to do something other than get bigger or smaller.
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Awesome !!!! Thank you.
The industry is good at marketing to women by using a word toning. But if it gets them to lift weights, great.
Toning is weight lifting. (correct?)
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I guess I see it more as description than action.
I want to be heavy, I want to be thin, I want to be tone.
eat more, eat less, lift weights.
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Well I think " tone" is less made-up and more derived from the idea of muscle tone.
I think the distinction was probably sought out when dieters and aerobicizers ended up flabby and with little muscle tone and then sought to be more muscle toned, truncated to wanting to be more "toned" and then morphing into the verb desiring exercises that would result in "toning".
I do agree its a bit of an insult to use it to market to women almost insinuating that women are or were incapable of understanding the concept of muscle building etc. However, I'm not sure that's how it was derived. Etymology is full of examples of where/how words evolve to end up in our vernacular and I suspect the word " toning" probably came about as a seeking out of a term to describe a woman's desire to have a more firm physique post dieting than the flaccidity resulting from sheer dieting alone.
Just a guess, though, no idea where to look for such an explanation.1 -
I have no doubt that the industry turned it into marketing drivel, but "toning" as a description or a goal does exist. Toning comes from the word for "tension", you want to firm your body up without increasing size aka build muscle+lose fat.
Think about it: If I was deemed muscular, I wouldn't be "muscling" to get it. Or if I was deemed fast, I wouldn't be "fastering" to achieve it.
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MyChocolateDiet wrote: »Awesome !!!! Thank you.
The industry is good at marketing to women by using a word toning. But if it gets them to lift weights, great.
Toning is weight lifting. (correct?)
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I guess I see it more as description than action.
I want to be heavy, I want to be thin, I want to be tone.
eat more, eat less, lift weights.
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Well I think " tone" is less made-up and more derived from the idea of muscle tone.
I think the distinction was probably sought out when dieters and aerobicizers ended up flabby and with little muscle tone and then sought to be more muscle toned, truncated to wanting to be more "toned" and then morphing into the verb desiring exercises that would result in "toning".
I do agree its a bit of an insult to use it to market to women almost insinuating that women are or were incapable of understanding the concept of muscle building etc. However, I'm not sure that's how it was derived. Etymology is full of examples of where/how words evolve to end up in our vernacular and I suspect the word " toning" probably came about as a seeking out of a term to describe a woman's desire to have a more firm physique post dieting than the flaccidity resulting from sheer dieting alone.
Just a guess, though, no idea where to look for such an explanation.
You are on track though with many aerobics workouts not addressing the "firming" up of muscle especially in the upper body. There actually was an attempt at offering women's strength classes, but back then hardly any attended because the thought again (and still exists today), that a woman lifting weights would get a man looking body. Change the terminology so it doesn't sound like lifting weights (when it actually is), it sells. Profit is really what matters most so I can see why, but it's still deception.
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MyChocolateDiet wrote: »Awesome !!!! Thank you.
The industry is good at marketing to women by using a word toning. But if it gets them to lift weights, great.
Toning is weight lifting. (correct?)
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I guess I see it more as description than action.
I want to be heavy, I want to be thin, I want to be tone.
eat more, eat less, lift weights.
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Well I think " tone" is less made-up and more derived from the idea of muscle tone.
I think the distinction was probably sought out when dieters and aerobicizers ended up flabby and with little muscle tone and then sought to be more muscle toned, truncated to wanting to be more "toned" and then morphing into the verb desiring exercises that would result in "toning".
I do agree its a bit of an insult to use it to market to women almost insinuating that women are or were incapable of understanding the concept of muscle building etc. However, I'm not sure that's how it was derived. Etymology is full of examples of where/how words evolve to end up in our vernacular and I suspect the word " toning" probably came about as a seeking out of a term to describe a woman's desire to have a more firm physique post dieting than the flaccidity resulting from sheer dieting alone.
Just a guess, though, no idea where to look for such an explanation.
You are on track though with many aerobics workouts not addressing the "firming" up of muscle especially in the upper body. There actually was an attempt at offering women's strength classes, but back then hardly any attended because the thought again (and still exists today), that a woman lifting weights would get a man looking body. Change the terminology so it doesn't sound like lifting weights (when it actually is), it sells. Profit is really what matters most so I can see why, but it's still deception.
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Not really a good thing its taken over two decades for the current acceptance of actually lifting something heavy to begin to take hold and be looked to for those results. For the fitness industry to think women are capable of understanding weights and muscles as well as that our uteruses (uteri?) wouldn't fall out if we lifted a weight or that we'd be less attractive to men if we stopped bouncing around at the gym in favor of hip thrusts and squats motions. ;-)
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MyChocolateDiet wrote: »MyChocolateDiet wrote: »Awesome !!!! Thank you.
The industry is good at marketing to women by using a word toning. But if it gets them to lift weights, great.
Toning is weight lifting. (correct?)
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I guess I see it more as description than action.
I want to be heavy, I want to be thin, I want to be tone.
eat more, eat less, lift weights.
A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
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Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition
Well I think " tone" is less made-up and more derived from the idea of muscle tone.
I think the distinction was probably sought out when dieters and aerobicizers ended up flabby and with little muscle tone and then sought to be more muscle toned, truncated to wanting to be more "toned" and then morphing into the verb desiring exercises that would result in "toning".
I do agree its a bit of an insult to use it to market to women almost insinuating that women are or were incapable of understanding the concept of muscle building etc. However, I'm not sure that's how it was derived. Etymology is full of examples of where/how words evolve to end up in our vernacular and I suspect the word " toning" probably came about as a seeking out of a term to describe a woman's desire to have a more firm physique post dieting than the flaccidity resulting from sheer dieting alone.
Just a guess, though, no idea where to look for such an explanation.
You are on track though with many aerobics workouts not addressing the "firming" up of muscle especially in the upper body. There actually was an attempt at offering women's strength classes, but back then hardly any attended because the thought again (and still exists today), that a woman lifting weights would get a man looking body. Change the terminology so it doesn't sound like lifting weights (when it actually is), it sells. Profit is really what matters most so I can see why, but it's still deception.
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Not really a good thing its taken over two decades for the current acceptanxe of actually lifting something heavy to begin to take hold and be looked to for those results.
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Women's magazines barrage us with the "toned" ideal.
For nearly all of us, we can't be "toned" without losing fat and adding muscle; or without CICO. For a smaller percentage of us, we don't need to lose fat, but we need WEIGHT LIFTING.
Get over it, industry. Stop treating women like idiots.1 -
the industry does need to stop treating women like idiots, but women need to do a bit more research before falling for the rubbish they read. The mis information is so wide spread not sure what can be done to change it. I have heard many people tell me they getting bulking lifting weights. i actually used to believe it was possible until i joined this site. I have been asked by a friend if i want muscles because i was using a pair of 4kg dumbbells doing a dvd. That actually really made me smile. there is no response to that one. And then i have also been asked by a man if i want to tone or get bulky because i said i need heavier dumbbells at home. I hear the word tone used all the time.0
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ahhh but I like the word 'toning'
we're just so used to hearing it nowadays, its just a term people use generally....1 -
I'm new to this and can only work out at home. I only have access to a rack, a barbell, and Dumbbells going up to 70 lbs. can I really get toned without a body pump class and regular pure barre? please advise!!!!!!0
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Very nice!
I find myself using the t-word as a last resort when talking to women about lifting, but there is so much resistance and I get the comment, "...but I don't want to look all manish". I try to explain that unless you are specifically dedicating the next few years to looking like a Greek God/Goddess - you won't.0 -
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So the truth is, one isn't really looking for "toning". A lean look with subtle definition is usually the goal.
Doing this for almost 20 years, a female won't get muscular by accident or just doing heavy weight lifting on a calorie deficit. Ask any muscular looking female about how they attained their physique and the answer will be YEARS of training and strict attention to their personal diet.
The first paragraph is actually why the word 'toning' doesn't make me cringe, especially if someone is describing the results that they want, because you basically know what they are describing. It is a myth or misnomer to describe a particular exercise as 'toning'... but if someone's talking about a look they want to achieve, idk if its worth brow beating them over.
The second part is a much more real issue in my opinion. There are definitely women that avoid lifting because they erroneously believe that they will develop so fast that they will wake up with a huge body. I think the problem goes even deeper if you explore what the general public thinks can be/should be achieved 100% naturally... which is a similar but separate issue.
But all in all I'm not sure why its worth brining up the toning subject
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Sticky it.0
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Therealobi1 wrote: »the industry does need to stop treating women like idiots, but women need to do a bit more research before falling for the rubbish they read. The mis information is so wide spread not sure what can be done to change it. I have heard many people tell me they getting bulking lifting weights. i actually used to believe it was possible until i joined this site. I have been asked by a friend if i want muscles because i was using a pair of 4kg dumbbells doing a dvd. That actually really made me smile. there is no response to that one. And then i have also been asked by a man if i want to tone or get bulky because i said i need heavier dumbbells at home. I hear the word tone used all the time.
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No don't sticky it. I use the words toning, building, strengthen, muscular... all of them and they all mean the same thing to me. I'm sure I'm not the only one who understand the ideas behind words.
If someone wants to use the word 'tone' to get fitter and healthier then there is nothing wrong with that.
http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/fitness/Pages/home-toning-workout.aspx2
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