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To be honest, there's no such thing as muscle toning. Lower weight at higher reps won't do this. Muscles respond to resistance, and you need to consistently and

To be honest, there's no such thing as muscle toning. Lower weight at higher reps won't do this. Muscles respond to resistance, and you need to consistently and constantly increase that resistance if you want to get larger/stronger. This is why all of the abdominal infomercials you see are bogus.

desigooner 16y ago
i think the more correct statement would be: there's no way to spot reduce fat. that's the reason most ab informercials are bogus. You'll see the abs if the overall body fat percentage is low. When i say toning, i mean aerobic exercises to lower body fat and weight training to firm up muscles. maybe i put it incorrectly in the original post. this is a nice read: http://www.exrx.net/WeightTraining/Myths.html http://www.exrx.net/WeightTraining/Myths.html
- finnomenon 16y ago
  local fat reduction: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1463-1326.2006.00600.x/abstract http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1463-1326.2006.... search for aminophylline.
  - desigooner 16y ago
    the 1200 kCal diet for the study is very alarming in my opinion. That's quite a lot of deficit compared to one's BMR and coupled with exercise, the study was bound to be a success. this following post pretty much dismisses the validity of the experiment you just linked: http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2008/02/miracle-thigh-cream-new-medical.html http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2008/02/miracle-thigh-cr...
sofuture 16y ago
Right. Muscles either grow, or don't grow. There's is no 'grow but only in a way that is toning and not actually growing bigger and stronger'. It's absurd how prevalent of a myth that is.
- gaius 16y ago
  Not a simple as that. There is sarcoplasma volume and myofibril density. It depends on what your goal is. But if you are training in the hypertrophy range and getting stronger, then you must be getting bigger.

desigooner 16y ago

i think the more correct statement would be: there's no way to spot reduce fat. that's the reason most ab informercials are bogus. You'll see the abs if the overall body fat percentage is low. When i say toning, i mean aerobic exercises to lower body fat and weight training to firm up muscles. maybe i put it incorrectly in the original post. this is a nice read: http://www.exrx.net/WeightTraining/Myths.html http://www.exrx.net/WeightTraining/Myths.html

finnomenon 16y ago
local fat reduction: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1463-1326.2006.00600.x/abstract http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1463-1326.2006.... search for aminophylline.
- desigooner 16y ago
  the 1200 kCal diet for the study is very alarming in my opinion. That's quite a lot of deficit compared to one's BMR and coupled with exercise, the study was bound to be a success. this following post pretty much dismisses the validity of the experiment you just linked: http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2008/02/miracle-thigh-cream-new-medical.html http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2008/02/miracle-thigh-cr...

sofuture 16y ago

Right. Muscles either grow, or don't grow. There's is no 'grow but only in a way that is toning and not actually growing bigger and stronger'. It's absurd how prevalent of a myth that is.

gaius 16y ago
Not a simple as that. There is sarcoplasma volume and myofibril density. It depends on what your goal is. But if you are training in the hypertrophy range and getting stronger, then you must be getting bigger.