How To Tone Your Inner Thighs

How To Tone Your Inner Thighs
Are you having some trouble fitting into your skinny jeans
lately? Your inner thighs are a bit...hmmm...out of
proportion? Don't worry, there is a solution.

First, let's just get something out of the way real quick.
The word tone does not really describe any physiological
process. But, as I regularly coach women, I know exactly
what you mean when you say that you want to 'tone your
inner thighs.'

There are only two physiological processes that can improve
the appearance of your body. One is fat loss. Lose fat -
fit into smaller size clothes. The other one is muscle
building. Now don't freak out, I don't mean to turn you
into Arnold Schwarzenegger. Building a little extra muscle
will make your body firmer and curvier.

If you want to tone your inner thighs, you have to lose fat
from your inner thighs, and maybe build a little muscle.

I'll show you how to do it in a moment, but let me make
another thing very clear here. You cannot choose to lose
fat from a specific place on your body. So if you are going
to lose fat from your inner thighs, you are going to lose
fat from all over your body (this is a good thing).When
building muscle, it is possible to target specific areas of
your body.

The best approach to toning your inner thighs is to:

1. Include exercises for the entire body in order to burn
that fat everywhere (including inner thighs).
2. Include exercises to build a little extra muscle around
the inner thighs and thus make them firmer.

It just so happens that the best exercises for firming up
your inner thighs are also some of the best fat burning
exercises. I'll give you the effective exercises, but
before I do, I want to tell you about the one exercise -
that you probably love - that is not effective.

The fancy name for the exercise is hip adduction, but you
may know it as the 'innie machine.' It's the one where you
sit with your legs spread wide and try to close them
against resistance. It is probably the all-time favorite
for female gym members around the world.

I understand why you may want to do that exercise: you feel
the burn in you inner thighs and it seems intuitive to
focus on the area you want to firm up. But there is one big
problem with this approach.

The best way to work a muscle is to use it the way it was
designed to be used. The collection of muscles that for
your inner thigh are technically called the 'adductors' and
these adductors' primary roles is not to move your upper
thigh in as you would on the 'innie machine.'

The adductors are designed to stabilize your body during
single leg activities such as walking and running.
Therefore, the best exercises for your inner thighs are
those where you are on one leg. Some of the best ones are:
split-squats, lunges, step-ups, and single leg squats. You
can google these to see how to perform them.

Get off the 'innie machine' and start doing these exercises
and you will start burning fat all over you body, tone your
inner thighs, and fit back into your skinny jeans.

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George Grigoryan is a fitness coach who has helped dozens
of women sculpt the body of their dreams. To get his latest
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