How to reduce fat in hip and thigh area?
599235
i don't know about fat. but i know that squats tone up those areas.
1142998
I would suggest riding a stationary bike. It would tone,shape, and help burn off fat from your thighs and buttocks at the same time and its less painful! ( smile)
1110774
the best way is to walk uphill.... or run..you lose it on ur butt and thighes because u are workign out your leggs..\n\nrunning and walking will also improve your cardio vascular system...  and increase metabolism.. plus it also burns the weight on ur tummy.. \n\nso running and walking do everything for u....
557819
unfortunatley you cant spt reduce...if you want to reduce your thighs you would have to reduce your body overall. another aternative is lipo.
149367
Besides watching your diet, any form of exercise which uses the muscles in those areas  will help to reduce your size there.  Try walking, alternately going quite fast for a short while and then a bit slower, then fast again etc.\n\nIf you have stairs, going up and down those may help as well.  Build up to how many times you do it but make sure that when you step, you put all of your foot down not just the balls of your feet.
313187
If you have fat to lose, you'll have to work on your diet and exercise.  Just make healthier food choices, don't snack but eat plenty during regular meal times.  For exercise, cardio and pilates leg-exercises really help.\n\nIf it's not fat and you're just trying to tone your thighs.. I guess the cardio and pilates will help, but I'm goign through that problem right now too, so I don't know..\nI don't have that much on my thighs but I'm really trying to tone it up and.. I don't know.. maybe I don't try hard enough =/  I should really get out of this chair and do something.. Yea I should.  Okay ttyl I'm gonna go work on those pilates exercises =P
569632
You absolutely cannot lose fat in target areas. You CAN gain muscle however in target areas.\n\nTo lose fat...you need long duration medium intensity workouts...like running for 40min to an hour+ at medium intensity. 20 minutes hard running will not do it! Fat is lost from ALL areas of the body more or less evenly.\n\nAs an adjunct, you need to build muscle in the areas you mentioned to firm it up. Upper leg muscle can be gained by leg presses, hamstring pulls, squats, leg extensions, mule kicks using the cables, mule kicks while on all fours, etc. Also, hip raises while on an exercise ball are good for butt muscles. If you don't want the weight room...try skating, roller blading, or some martial arts...but the latter will be least effective.\n\nIf you do fat burning without muscle building, you will not get the definition you want. If you do muscle building without fat burning you will end up with strong muscles covered over by the fat that you never lost.\n\nDo both, give it some time! Good luck!
518263
The only way to get rid of the fat is to spend more calories through exercise than you take in.  There is no way to target specific areas of your body for fat loss.  However, you can combine the lowering of caloric intake with  exercises to tone the muscles in your legs.
379072
I like the ThighTek XL by Denise Austin. It's like a thighmaster. Do the excercise on it for inner thighs. You just squeeze it together. It's fairly cheap too. Maybe look for it on Ebay, but here is a link for it. I got mine at the store some time ago, so you might still be able to find it in stores.
494738
That is a hard area to target for us women, but it can be accomplished by doing a combination of cardio and weightlifting.  Cardio will burn calories and weighlifting will help boost your metabolism and tone up your legs.  Both are needed to get the results you want.  Make sure you do exercises for all the muscles in your legs and buns--including squats, lunges, hamstring curls, sqeezes for your inner thighs and extensions for your outer thighs. \n\nDieting will also help you lose weight.  To lose 1 pound per week, make sure you are burning 500 more calories than you take in every day.  This can be done by increasing exercise, decreasing food calories or a combination of both things.
465082
You dont tone saddle bags gurl - you lose em. That's my goal right now. I have a really fit upper body and my body tends to store fat in the lower half of my body. The thing is the first place you body stores fat easiest is going to be the last place ya lose it. You cant zone fat loss - i wish it was possible - you lose fat from all over. \n\nMake sure you do at least 30 minutes of cardio a day and try doing some weight training for your legs. If you have access to machines - try leg presses, extensions, curls, abductor and adductor machines. There are different pilaties moves you can doo ass well. \n\nTake a look at these pages \nhttp://www.ediets.com/news/article.cfm?cmi=1949377&cid=5\n\nhttp://www.efitness.com/news/article.cfm?article_id=18084&cid=3
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dear,\nexcercise is only a tip to trim the fat, besides my suggesstion is to stick to leafy vegetables and sprouts + have at least 3 to 4 ltrs of water to stay fit.\nto know whether you are going fatty is to measure your waist and the thighs. if so, adopt a keen excercise to burn the fat. vegetables like potatos or route products are to be kept away and have more fibre to your diet.\nhope, this is what you are looking \ngood luck & god bless you.\ndvs prasad\nprasad.dvs@yahoo.com
997907
Running or any other form of cardio, Leg Presses or Squats all of these are great for trimming down those thighs and toning the rest of your legs and buttocks. A combination of these would be best
548288
if you are strictly wanting skinnier legs, cardio is the way to go. personally, i alternate cardio workouts and weight training. however, i'm looking for slight muscle definition. cardiovascular training burns fat. it will build some muscle, but it will be a small amount and will be more of a "toned" look. i wish i could tell you there is a quick, simple way. however, from a girl who inherited large hips and thighs, i can tell you that exercising with cardio is the best thing you can do. treadmill, biking, eliptical, soccer, anything that will get you active. if you aren't able to run, walking is better than nothing. maybe try ankle weights for a little extra work. a healthy diet doesn't hurt either! try snacking on fruit instead of chips, water instead of carbonated beverages, and lower caloric intake for faster results. it's all in the math. take in less calories, burn more, the results....fat loss that you will be happy with! good luck to you!
940666
Exercise more and cut down on excess food- try eating a balanced diet of protein, fat and carbs. Pilates and sit ups are excellent tummy reducers and low impact cardio is good too. Jogging at a low impact, swimming, etc... When your heart rate is low is when you are burning fat..
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Questions about fat burning and spot toning/reducing are our most popular question. The short answer is that you cannot spot reduce, and the way to burn fat is through aerobic exercise, which burns lots of calories; resistance exercise, which builds muscle (muscle is the engine that burns calories and maintains your metabolic rate); and then watch your caloric intake. \n\n1. There is a genetic factor that determines where people accumulate fat. Women tend to accumulate it in their hips, buttocks, and thighs, and men tend to accumulate it in their abdomen. The reasons for the differences between sexes have not been identified. Some people accumulate more fat than others, and the reasons for that have not been fully identified either, although there are theories. \n\n2. The fat that accumulates on the hips, thighs, and buttocks, although perhaps not cosmetically appealing, is not dangerous for your health. In fact, there is some evidence that it is actually good for your health. The opposite is true for abdominal fat. That fat has been implicated in heart disease, diabetes, and other health problems. Men with a large pot belly are therefore at increased health risk, whereas women with large hips or thighs are not necessarily at risk, at least not from the fat on their lower extremities. \n\n3. Fat, no matter where it is on the body, belongs to the entire body, so you can't spot reduce, i.e., you can't do sit-ups and lose abdominal fat, and you can't do leg raises and lose thigh fat. \n\n4. Fat is stored in special fat cells called adipocytes located all over the body. You have anywhere from 25 billion to 275 billion adipocytes. The average individual has around 30-35 billion. These adipocytes store fat and they release fat. When they release fat, the adipocyte gets smaller, and when they store fat, the adipocyte gets larger, just like a balloon that you fill with air or release air from. Contrary to popular belief, adipocytes do not divide when they get too big. Instead, what happens is that as an adipocyte absorbs excess fat and increases in size to approximately 15-20 microns (the diameter of a human hair is 100 microns), it sends a biochemical signal to adjacent adipocyte precursor cells called preadipocytes to absorb fat and grow larger. These preadipocytes then become fully mature adipocytes, and as a result, the individual gets fatter. During childhood and into puberty, both the number of mature adipocytes (hyperplasia) and the size of the adipocyte increases. It is believed by many scientists that the number of adipocytes stays fairy stable after adolescence and instead of an increase in the number of adipocytes during adulthood, the mature adipocytes enlarge to increase body fat. However, there is some recent evidence to suggest that the number of mature adipocytes can also increase during adulthood. In any case, what is certain is that excess caloric intake leads to increases in body fat, either through hyperplasia or through enlargement of the adipocyte. \n\nIt should be noted that preadipocytes develop from special cells in the body, and although genes control proteins that control preadipocyte function and development, the process is extremely complex and not well understood, but scientists are busy studying it. \n\nOne other point on this subject. Adipocytes do not disappear when they get smaller. They shrink only to a certain size, and then they just hang around as very tiny adipocytes, and they can always get large again. The only way to get rid of them totally is through liposuction. \n\n5. Adipocytes get large by feeding them. If you eat more calories than you burn, some of the excess carbohydrate will be stored as sugar, or glucose, in the muscles (called glycogen), and the rest of the excess will be stored as fat in the fat cells. If you continue to eat more than you burn, you continue to feed the adipocytes with fat and you get fatter. \n\n6. When you exercise, the adipocytes release fat into the
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Whenever you want to "reduce" you'll have to do some exercise.  Walking is the best for this!  If you can walk at a brisk pace for 25-30 minutes starting out, this will burn fat and sculpt your body very nice.  Walking is excellent.  I wouldn't suggest any exercises targeted specifically for your thighs, as you're wanting to "reduce" not to build.  Walking will do this for you, but you'll need to commit to 5-6 days a week for it.  You'll look and feel better too. \n   If you can't or don't want to walk there are many dvd's available too that you can look at on line, just find something aerobic, like tae bo, kickboxing, step, anything that makes you move, and that you enjoy and start doing it at home, it 's really fun.  Hope this helps some...