Originally posted by: Amused
"Toning" comes from decreased body fat. If you want to be tone, you need to lengthen the time you do cardio and moderate your diet. If you want to tone without getting much skinnier, you have to maximize your weight lifting. Lift heavy, and minimize the sets and reps you do. Less is more. Work each muscle group once a week and do every set to complete failure and with maximum intensity.
There is really only one way to work with weights. How "big" you get depends totally on your diet (and genetics) not in how you lift weights. How "toned" you get depends on how much fat you burn... not in how you lift your weights.
Thanks for the advice!
I really don't want to lose much more weight...it doens't seem like I lose in the right places. And I am ok with my upper body- I would just like my legs and perhaps abs to be much more tone. I do alot of cardio because I have a low stamina level, so I was hoping that would help....plus, I gotta balance out my sometimes sketchy eating habits. Lately, I have been doing what you said: when I do any weight training, I do the max amount I can, and only about two sets of 10 (at the end of which my muscles are totally fatigued). I really hope it makes a difference. If I can fix up these legs, I'll be a happy girl!