Toning (what is that?)

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  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
    SezxyStef wrote: »
    RoxieDawn wrote: »
    I think the fitness magazines should start saying: Get Hypertrophy in Just 4 Weeks! :(:(

    I think that the fitness magazines should go away...mostly full of BS catch phrases and bad advice.

    Well thanks for that and I just freaking kidding!
  • rileyes
    rileyes Posts: 1,406 Member
    SezxyStef wrote: »
    RoxieDawn wrote: »
    I think the fitness magazines should start saying: Get Hypertrophy in Just 4 Weeks! :(:(

    I think that the fitness magazines should go away...mostly full of BS catch phrases and bad advice.

    They are filled with more bad advertising than advice.
  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,267 Member
    RoxieDawn wrote: »
    SezxyStef wrote: »
    RoxieDawn wrote: »
    I think the fitness magazines should start saying: Get Hypertrophy in Just 4 Weeks! :(:(

    I think that the fitness magazines should go away...mostly full of BS catch phrases and bad advice.

    Well thanks for that and I just freaking kidding!

    I know...it was funny...I just can see some of my "friends" grabbing a "woman's fitness" reading that headline and going WTF is that....being all confused n crap.
  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,267 Member
    rileyes wrote: »
    SezxyStef wrote: »
    RoxieDawn wrote: »
    I think the fitness magazines should start saying: Get Hypertrophy in Just 4 Weeks! :(:(

    I think that the fitness magazines should go away...mostly full of BS catch phrases and bad advice.

    They are filled with more bad advertising than advice.

    really? I haven't picked one up in ages...even to flip through at the cash as I see "Tone up in just 4 weeks" or "lose 10lbs this week" and get ticked immediately.
  • rileyes
    rileyes Posts: 1,406 Member
    Take it out on the barbell.
  • SonyaCele
    SonyaCele Posts: 2,841 Member
    tone up in 4 weeks, and the cover photo is a woman who has been working on her body for many years and all airbrushed and photoshopped. As if anyone believes they can have that body in 4 weeks.
  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,267 Member
    SonyaCele wrote: »
    tone up in 4 weeks, and the cover photo is a woman who has been working on her body for many years and all airbrushed and photoshopped. As if anyone believes they can have that body in 4 weeks.

    you would be surprised at how many women and now men think that all they have to do is some crunches and they will have abs...or that losing 10lbs in a week is a "good thing"
  • dlm7507
    dlm7507 Posts: 237 Member
    This was my oldest daughter on the cover. She exercised since childhood, had a bad relationship with food and the picture is photoshoped. Nothing in the magazine had anything to do with her.
  • GoddessofBody
    GoddessofBody Posts: 12 Member
    When I say I want to be "toned," I mean I want to be more shredded/cut but without the bulk of fitness/figure competitors or other moderately to heavily muscled female athletes. So, I want to strip down my fat to reveal muscle definition, which will also require some more muscle-building but not so much that I need to increase any of my clothing sizes to fit me comfortably. Rather, I'd probably be even slightly to somewhat smaller than I am now when I get to that point.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,024 Member
    TONING was a word invented by the fitness industry to "feminize" weightlifting and the "hardening" of muscle. Back in the mid 70's to early 80's women basically just did cardio workouts because they didn't want to look muscular and attributed it to weight lifting (many still do today).
    Females spend more money on personal improvement than males do, so the fitness industry needed to create something different to entice women to spend more. There were only so many ways back then to do cardio (step aerobics, jazzercise, running), but introducing "toning" made it BIG. All of a sudden women started lifting weights, just NOT the way they needed to to gain any additional muscle. IMO, it's was a scam and insults women's intelligence.
    There is no such thing as a "toning" curl or a "toning" squat, so why would the hell would they be referred to as "toning" exercises?
    What I like about MFP is that females who have heard this crap are now getting the real information on how muscle building actually works and that just lifting heavy weights isn't going to make you muscular looking.
    I'll answer any more questions on this because it's something that kinda irks me being in the fitness industry myself.

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  • canadianlbs
    canadianlbs Posts: 5,199 Member
    edited April 2017
    SezxyStef wrote: »
    that's all fine but those who use the word "tone" have fallen for a fitness industry catch phrase that in reality isn't "real"

    not necessarily though? i mean, fair enough if people bothered to question those who use it a little before mounting their little soap-box. but i do get the impression a lot of people are just looking for the first opportunity to pounce on others and spank them for using it.

    put me in the 'it's annoying and rude' camp, i guess. i literally picture the tone-spankers policing the world with little yellow flyswatters under their arms.
  • AnvilHead
    AnvilHead Posts: 18,343 Member
    canadianlbs wrote: »
    SezxyStef wrote: »
    that's all fine but those who use the word "tone" have fallen for a fitness industry catch phrase that in reality isn't "real"

    not necessarily though? i mean, fair enough if people bothered to question those who use it a little before mounting their little soap-box. but i do get the impression a lot of people are just looking for the first opportunity to pounce on others and spank them for using it.

    put me in the 'it's annoying and rude' camp, i guess. i literally picture the tone-spankers policing the world with little yellow flyswatters under their arms.

    This explains "toning" better than anything else I've read: http://www.aworkoutroutine.com/muscle-tone/
  • BeauNash
    BeauNash Posts: 103 Member
    canadianlbs wrote: »
    SezxyStef wrote: »
    that's all fine but those who use the word "tone" have fallen for a fitness industry catch phrase that in reality isn't "real"

    not necessarily though? i mean, fair enough if people bothered to question those who use it a little before mounting their little soap-box. but i do get the impression a lot of people are just looking for the first opportunity to pounce on others and spank them for using it.

    put me in the 'it's annoying and rude' camp, i guess. i literally picture the tone-spankers policing the world with little yellow flyswatters under their arms.

    I got really toned arms by flyswatting an hour a day for 4 weeks.
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