what is a good way to tone up>?
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read tips on weight loss and exercise programs to  help you more on this site
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You could do 5000 situps in a day and not get the results you want.\n\nResearch has come out that if you want to tone up, do cardio. Try pilates. Run.
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here r a few ways to excersice at home:\n* if u have stairs at home u can clime up a few steps and then go down(good for thighs)\n\n* streches in the morning(good for over all workout)\n\n* here's my fav play some fast music lock urself in ur room and dance ur way to a perfect body(good for over all workout).
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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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Eat five portions of fruit/veg per day, do 30 mins of brisk exercise a day, eat a wholesome breakfast, have your main meal at lunch and a smaller meal at supper time. Dont eat after 7 pm at night. Drink plenty of water and eat foods that fill you up such as rice. Dont eat more than one starch a day, so only one portion of rice or potato a day. Swimming is also a great way to tone a body up, try going to the swimming baths three times a week
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If you have 'dumbells', [if you dont go buy some, awfully cheap] take 2 of them (same weight) and lift them slowly up and down as ur running. Itll def. give it tone! DEFINATLY. If you want to get ur abs done to my sister did this and ITS AWESOME! If you have OnDemand go to ExcerciseTV and they got some great workouts. if not that turbojam stuff really REALLY WORKS! MY body is like BOO YAH! bcuz of it! lol
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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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a few good tips foodwise is the following.  Green leaf vegetables are great for toning as they contain no fat whasoever.  Eat a lot of nuts and beans.  Try replacing your meat by beans once a week.  Eat plenty of fish.  drink only water and skimmed milk.  Try using whey protein.(it's a natural product made from cheese whey)  That'll help you on your way to getting fine toned.  A great tip if you want all round muscle exercise and cardiovascular training is what I started a few weeks ago nl. Capoeïra.  It's a Brazilian martial art encorporated in a dance containing a lot of acrobatics.  The exercises are really very intense and the acrobatics really work the muscles very hard. plus it's a lot of fun and soon you'll be able to perform all kinds of flips. cartwheels flips hand stand techniques,...\n\nHave fun
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there are different approaches to this... But the best way is the healthy way. Do some aerobic exercises u enjoy so u wont get bored. Do some weight training too, enough to tone muscles... toned muscles promotes higer metabolism. Watch what you eat in terms of calories. good luck.
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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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Push Up (50 to 60 counts a day)\nGoodLuck
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You need to get rid of that fat as well as strengthen your muscles. Cardio is the only way to lose the fat, and one of the best ways to do that is run, but anything less than 30 min won't help much. to get toned muscles the best thing I have found from experience is to do 8 min abs. its quick and pretty easy and you don't need any equipment - but the better you do the exercises the stronger you will get.
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Pilates and Yoga work best if you want to tone up a little you would see visible results in just 2 or 3 weeks if you do them for at least 40-60 min everyday
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Just keep it going and do what you are doing. Consider adding in some weights to your routine. Refer to www.bodybuilding.com\n\nYou can search the site for specific areas and do those exercises. It may just be a matter of toning. If you are really worried, get a personal trainer to provide you a program to do either from home or at the gym where you can work this area and tone. After a few months if you don't see significant improvement it may well be that you have to consider more alternatives and possibly surgery.
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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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Free weights are a very good way to tone and build muscle.  Start light and slowly (that is SLOWLY!!) increase the weight.  Go on line and visit http://sportsmedicine.about.com/od/strengthtraining/a/usingfreeweight.htm\nYou'll find good advice at this site.\nHappy lifting and when you are ready we'll have to arm wrestle!
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Do some toning exercises like stomach crunches.  Hope this helps.