Do you know any exercises that will help me tone in the thighs and stomach?
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Crunches of all types for your abs.  Squats, plie squats, and lunges are all good for thighs.  Walking or running for cardio.  Pilates is also great for toning abs and thighs.  I have a DVD called Pilates for Abs led by Ana Caban which is a fantastic ab workout.
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You don't need a machine or other exercise equipment to strengthen your stomach and sides.  There is a series of exercises that you can do that will help you with your core muscle group.\n\n1. Sit ups - Make sure you don't pull on your neck and that your back is flat on the floor.\n2. Knee lifts with stomach crunch - Lift the knees slightly and bring them in as you do your crunch.\n3. Hip lifts - Legs straight up in the air.  Hands to the waist side with palms of the hands facing up.  Lift using the lower abs.  Make sure the lifts are deliberate.  Do not rush through them.  Again make sure back is flat.\n4. Oblique crunches - You should feel your ribs pressing pinching into your side. Try not to fold forward, but rather bend up trying to get your elbow to touch your feet.\n5. Side Plank Dips - Keep your body in a straight line (one plane) and keep the movement smooth and slow. Your hips should just touch (but not rest on!) the ground. \n6.  Oblique Leg Extensions - This not only works your obliques, but should also engage your piriformis & hip flexor as well. Don't let your leg touch the ground, and when the leg is fully extended your butt should be tightly squeezed rotating your leg out ever so slightly (this is the piriformis part). \n7. Supermans - Each side counts as 1/2 of a rep. Your stomach muscles should be engaged when you lift up. Think about your arm and leg not only being pulled up, but also out. Hold it at the top for 2 seconds. \n8. Bridged Leg Lifts - Each leg counts as 1/2 of a rep. Keep your butt down. You don't need to lift your legs super high.\n9. Pushups - Keep your head raised and looking forward, and your body in a perfect horizontal plane. Your elbows should bend back, not out to the side. \nRepeat steps 4, 5, and 6, but do the other side.\n10. Heel Touches - Each heel touch counts as 1/2 of a rep. Keep your shoulder blades off the ground, remember to breathe, and make sure your feet are far enough away from you that you have to really reach to touch the heel.\n\nThis sounds like a lot.  But you will notice a difference by doing them twice a week.  And don't do too many reps at first.  I would say 15 to 20.  Once you get stronger move up to 30(3 sets of 10).
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The only one I tried was Pilates for Dummies and I found it at Wal-mart.  The instructor gives really clear instructions and in addition to the standards, they show you beginner and challenge exercises, too.\n\nAlthough I don't do them as often now, they really do help you to tone up and you definitely feel it, though not in a bad way.\n\nGood luck finding something that works for you. :-)
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Well, I have some workouts for each of those parts. You can't really target ONE spot at a time, but you can tone, strenghten and lose inches or pounds off your whole body. So, here's some workouts. \n\n1. Lower abs\n\nA. Lie with your back on the floor and position a pillow or cushion under your hips and buttocks for added support. Raise your legs and bend your knees, crossing your legs at the ankles. Place your hands behind your head. Your elbows should be out to the sides.\nB. Press your abs toward your spine and exhale as you curl your hipbones toward your tibs, initating the movement with your lower abs. INhale as you lower your hips. Repeat about 10-12 times. Increase every time three times.\n\n2. Whole Abs\n\nA. Lie with your back on the floor, your arms downat your sides, and your knees in the air, directly above your hips. Extend your legs and point your toes. Exhale as you contract your abs to pull your shoulders up. Inhale. Press your palms down rhythmically as you exhale five short breaths, pressing your palms slightly down with each breaht. Then turn your palsm up and press rhythmically with five short inhales to complete one set. Repeat 10 times, increase every three times.\n\n3.Inner Thighs and Abs, (also outer thighs)\n\nA. Lie on your back with your arms on at your side, your knees bent, and your feet flat on the floor. Extend your right leg and point your toes. Exhale and tighten your abs, navel in. Press your spine down into the mat.\n\nB. Slowly circle your right leg counterclockwise, making sure to keep your hips level and motionless. Inhale as you circle your leg outward, away from your body. Exhale as you circle inward toward your body. After circling six times in that direction, switch to clockwise for six circles. Repeat the squence with the other leg. Increase every two times.\n\n3. Back strenghtener and Butt toner\n\nA. Get on all fours, with your hands under your shoulders and your knees under your hips. Press your navel toward your spine and lenghten the crown of your head toward the wall in front of you and your tailbone toward the wall behind you. INhale as you exhtend your left arm and right leg. Hold for three seconds, then exhale as your lower. Repeat using your right arm and left leg. Continue alternating arm and leg positions, repeating the entire sequence three more times. Increase every two times.\n\n4.Butt and thighs\n\nA. LIe on your left side, with your head supported by a pillow or cushion and your left arm exhtended above your head behind the pillow. Extend both legs on top of eachother with your toes pointed. Bring your legs slightly in front of the plane of your body and turn your left leg toward the floor for support. Contract your abs and inhale as your slowly kick your right leg forward. Keeping your left leg and foot pressed into the floor. \n\nB. Once you've swept your leg as far forward as you can, exhale as you sweep it back, behind your body and slightly up. Keep your abs strong throughtout and squeeze your buttocks. Repeat 8 to 10 times then switch sides. Increase every three times.\n\n5. Lower abs\n\nA. Get in a standard pushup position with your palms on the floor under your chest, your legs extended and your weight on the balls of your feet. Contract your abs soi that your back doesnt arch or your buttocks dont skink down below the plane of your body. Your body should form a straight line from your heels to your head. \n\nB. Inhale as you raise your right leg up as high as you can behind you without arching your lower back or allowing your hips to fall out of alignment. Exhale as you lower your leg to the starting position. Repeat with the left leg. continue alternating your legs, repeating the sequence three more times. Increase every three times. \n\nThere is alot more workouts but this should do you good. Also, you should try walking up hill everyday a week, every week increase your speed. Drink alot of water.\n\nFor firmer butt, jog uphill or go on a ellip
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there are exercises that will target and tone those areas. It sounds like you are at a healthy weight. Don't worry about what the scale says first of all. But if you do want to tone you butt and thighs you might try climbing stairs for about 30 mins three times a week. It also helps tone the abdominal muscles.
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Cellulite is fatty tissue so you want to do plenty of cardio to burn fat. \n\nTo tone the muscles, you want to do weight machines for the lower body such as the leg press, leg extension, leg curls,hip adductor and hip abductor. \n\nYou also want to do floor exercise and calisthentics such as leg lifts, squats, lunges, step squats, and standing leg lifts. \n\nFinally, you may want to stop eating fried and processed foods and more raw fruits and fresh veggies to help your body cleanse itself and get rid of fats and the toxins it contains.
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To tone up you need to do aroebics and watch what you eat, and if you want to get a round booty, do lots of squats and lunges.  Crunches and stomach workouts really don't do much if you have a layer of fat on top.  If you decide to start running (which is really good for losing the fat, but bad on your joints) also do a yoga workout two or three times a week, or something along those lines.
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Buying some free weights is  a good idea and if you are just looking to tone they do not have to be heavy.  3 to 5 pounds each is enough.  This will be great for your upper body.  For lower body squats and lunges are wonderful for your thighs and butt.  Deadlifts are great for your hamstrings.  Stand with knees slightly bent, hold one weight in each hand and bend over from the waist keeping your back very straight.  Bend as far as you can letting weights hang towards the floor.  Slowly come up and repeat 12 to 15 times.  On the last one hold the weights down there and do ten tiny pulses up and down.  Do two to three sets like that and you will feel it in the backs of your thighs the next day.\nThere are many things to do for your legs that don't require equipment but it would take so much room to explain them all.  Try reading fitness magazines, they always have great ideas.
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Definitely sit ups, another thing you can do is pushus, yeah sounds weird but it does help somehow, you can also do this one exercise were you lay flat on your back, then putyour arms andhands flat on the ground as well, and keep them right by your sides without moving them and you lift you legs up 6 inches or a foot, the less you raise them the better the work out cause it really constricts and tightens up your lower abdomen muscles, well you lift your legs up striahgt together and then out them down the same way, don't bend your knees, don't let them drop, and do about 20 of these and then 30 and then 50 etc. as many as you can do as many reps and you will see some awesome results in a week if you do a lot of reps everyday a few times a day. It's the best thing I can think of, apart from running of course
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I also think exercise is the only way to tone muscles. Or electrical stimulation, if you have some money to spend.\n\nIn your situation, isotonic contractions of the muscles in the stomach area might help. That means that you contract your abdomen muscles and keep them contracted for a while (the longer the better) while u do ur usual stuff, talk to people etc. The method is far from being fast, but I think you will have some additional benefits (as for any other exercise, the brain will probably release serotonine, which is a hormone that makes you feel happy).\n\nOtherwise you should ask a trained professional - kynetotherapist or the like. Good luck and all the best to you! And all my respect for what you try to do.
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Absolutely.\n\nBody Shaping Exercise - Butt and Thigh Toning and Exercising\nButt and Thigh Toning and Exercising\n(http://www.virtualfitnesstrainer.com/articles/Butt_and_thigh_toning.htm) \n\nYou will be happy to know that you are not the only one out there who wants to tone their butt and thighs into shape. How often, though, is it that you start a toning program for your butt and thighs and find your butt and thighs actually grow instead of shrink! This situation has a tendency to put people off training because they don't get the results they expect. \n\nWhy You have Problems Reducing Your Butt and Thighs Size? \n\nThe reason that you have so many problems trying to rid yourself of your thighs and butt is because these areas are main storage areas for body fat. For women reducing these areas can drive you nuts! The reason for having these fat storage areas is to assist us in times of survival. What?! You say? Let me put it this way. Say you were stuck out in the middle of nowhere with no food, and just water. Your body would, after a while, start "kicking into your body fat storage" to help you survive, because you are not consuming any food. In the case of women during pregnancy if this occurred you would be "surviving for two" - thus the larger fat storage area.\n\nHow Eating the Wrong Food Effects Your Butt and Thigh Size\n\nThe size increase in your butt and thigh areas can depend on the type of program you are performing and what you are eating. To start with if your body fat storage areas tend to be around your butt and thighs you need to be very careful of the extra bits and pieces you snack on. You can bet that most of the time when you consume extra calories and fat it will go straight to your thighs and butt. \n\nHow Performing the Wrong Exercises Effects Your Butt and Thigh Size \n\nThen there is exercise. What you need to know is that there are workouts to increase the size in your butt and thighs and workouts to re-shape and reduce the size of your butt and thighs. \n\nWHICH EXERCISES ARE YOU PERFORMING? \n\nSure it's fine to say "I am going to tone by butt and thighs" but if you are using a program that may not be correct for your body type you can easily, and unintentionally, increase the size of both of them! \n\nHow to Reduce Your Butt and Thigh Size! \n\nFat Burning Exercise\nFat burning exercise is a great way to help reduce the size of your thighs and butt. To start with try walking or using the treadmill. Bikes or cycling are great too just as long as you keep the resistance to an absolute minimum. Why!? Because often when first starting an exercise program your musclegrowth is easily stimulated, which means if you include too much resistance in your fat burning exercise you may promote muscle growth and size.\n\nToning Exercise \n\nIt is important that you perform a full body workout, rather than just concentrating on your butt and thighs. Perform an exercise on each body part using light weights and high reps on your lower half. One of the best ways to ensure you are re-shaping your body with the correct workout, especially if you are pear shaped, is to look into getting a program designed for you. It is well worth your while and it will save you allot of frustration. \n\nLow Fat Eating Program \n\nI know you think low-fat eating is boring but it's not. Although if you choose to make it boring and choose not to experiment with low fat foods then I guess it would be. There are so many wonderful ways to eat the supposed "fast foods" as "low in fat". Over the years I have gone out of my way to make an effort to find new and exciting ways of cooking low-fat tasty meals. There are so many options out there if you only look. \n\nA low fat "simple to follow eating program" is vital when re-shaping your body and will determine whether or not you achieve your re-shaping program goals. Your workout/s and eating program work hand in hand to
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Walking, jogging, dancing, elliptical, cycling, stair climbing, and the crossramp machine will help tone your thighs.  You may be built with a pear-shape body so even though you want to greatly reduce your thighs, you may never get it proportional unless you have surgery.  I don't recommend surgery.
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avoid exercises that result in repeat impact to your knees: jumping, running, jogging, etc. Try using an elliptical where you never remove your foot from the surface and you are using your thighs and calves. \nDespite the advice you may get about using weights or floor exercises, it's better for you to do cardiovascular exercises than to do things that will build up or tone muscle- you don't want big thighs right? You want to burn fat and maintain a healthy heart so stick with the cardio work up that will avoid further injuring yur needs. Swimming is great but not readily available. If you have access to a pool year round (and don't mind ruining your hair)- go for it! Otherwise, Try the elliptical.
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Skating, jogging, elliptic, walking, that is the best workout you can do for that...\n\nI would suggest a diet additionally but just diet... Will not work...\nWomen are propense to accumulate fat in the thighs, it is recommended to stay away from fat as much as possible... for many reasons, this is one...
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what i do for the thigh is:\nLay on your right side, right leg straight and left leg over your right. Lift the right leg up and down  (without touching the floor) and count to 10.  Repeat for the other leg.  Do a set of 3 for each leg and do this everyday.  this would work out your inner thighs.\n\nwhat I do for my lower abs is:\nlay on your back, both legs straight and lift them up and down without touching the floor.  put your hands on your side or under the butt. Do as much as you can. what i do is do 20 raises, rest, 20 raises, rest etc.  I would do this in conjunction with sit-ups.\n\nwhen i do these exercises, i do cardio too...jogging 3-5 times a week would definitely keep you slim, from my experiences.
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Try Pilates. They just tone the tummy and the thigh area. Plus you get the body of a dancer, lean and tall. rather then bulking up with heavy muscle.
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any aerobic exercise like running will help you lose the weight, then do sit ups and crunches to help you tone your belly. also, try to cut back on the food that is high in fat and carbs, and try to drink water more instead of other drinks high in sugar.