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Bodybuilding Myth - The Toning Workout
"I just want to do a toning workout"

"What's a good toning exercise for ..."


If I hear either of these phrases uttered again I will scream!  There is no such thing as a toning exercise!  "Toning" is an imprecise and dangerous term and its not just an academic issue, its important to your success.  The problem is that "toning" has no exact meaning and thus results cannot be measured or obtained.  If you tell your trainer that you want to get a "toned body", you are set up for failure from the start!  If you dont know exactly what you are trying to achieve, you will never achieve it.  Here are some different things that people mean by "toning":

 

Goal: Example:
increase strength power-lifting
increase muscle mass bodybuilding
increase endurance marathon
increase speed swimming
increase flexibility yoga
decrease body-fat aerobic exercise
increase coordination gymnastics

If you cant measure what it is you are trying to achieve, then you will never achieve it! You can see that all these goals are very different and your training regimen will be very different depending on how you define "toning".