How to tone up for summer?
I am an eighteen year old girl. However I do not want to lose weight, I simply want to tone up a bit. I weigh 106 right now and am 5′ 4″ (I am saying this stuff because I have no idea if being tones has to do with age, gender, height or weight).
If you have any ideas please let me know!
I have a treadmill, lots of weights, and something sort of like the bowflex (its not really, but it looks like it). I also have the P90X series.
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For toning, you need to lose a bit of weight to show the “toning through” if that makes sense. You’re not really losing weight since it’ll be replaced with muscle (that you’ve toned up) because you probably have untoned “fat” if that makes sense.
Since you’re female you’d want to do toning exercises that build lean muslces, so I suggest 30-60minutes of pilates a day, but you should always have a recovery day. Start out with 30minutes and eventually after maybe 2 weeks work your away up to 40/60. So every 3 days pilates, rest, and 3 days again of pilates. They’re really easy to do with your favourite TV show, revising etc.
Here’s a YouTube channel I’m using atm, I’ll send you some for thighs, legs and butt. There’s loads on the channel though, there’s even a 30minute pilate workout! They’re absolotely killer!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzZSCsw6i2c&feature=plcp Butt workout, with songs by beyonce, the girl really makes you want to do it as well,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHfe0rG_THk&list=PLDC26061DAB894988&index=10&feature=plpp_video legs and thigh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7I-c-yw5ZrQ&list=PLDC26061DAB894988&index=8&feature=plpp_video slimmer inner thighs!!
And you should pair all of this with some cardio, and since you have a treadmill, you can go on it for 30minutes/45minutes. You could put your laptop in front or something that’s what I do, and listen to music, go on chatroulette haha! But don’t ever give up, the extra 5minutes makes all the difference! And remember you’re doing it for you
Also try to drink 2Litres of water a day, what I did was, bought a massive 2L bottle of evian, and changed the lid to a “sucker” lid as opposed to a cap lid, so I felt more inclined to drink it.
http://www.youtube.com/user/blogilates/videos – And here’s the channel with all her videos, there’s some summer edition ones. They’re intense though!
Goodluck!
EDIT: I just found this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1DS7G9OjfQ&feature=relmfu ab workout one, on the same channel. Usually ab workouts strain my neck, but this one has a lot of “non-neck straining workouts” check it out!