When women say " I want to Tone up"

[MR-FQ320]

I mean waht the hell does this actually mean ?

So the GF has put a few extra lbs on over xmas, now she says she wants to tone up but not get bigger (?), i really dont know what to advise her, im saying reduce cals, increase cardio and do weights, but she does actually ballon with weights, shes actually strong for a girl and got some size on her legs, but she wants skinny legs (?!). i know what i know and thats worked for me, but does that apply for females ? i also set her diet to 40/40/20

[GirlyGymRat]

I mean waht the hell does this actually mean ? So the GF has put a few extra lbs on over xmas, now she says she wants to tone up but not get bigger (?), i really dont know what to advise her, im saying reduce cals, increase cardio and do weights, but she does actually ballon with weights, shes actually strong for a girl and got some size on her legs, but she wants skinny legs (?!). i know what i know and thats worked for me, but does that apply for females ? i also set her diet to 40/40/20

Hahahahaha. It's complicated!!!!

Loose fat. That's my take. I am carb sensitive so I prefer 55/20/25 split. Light weights higher reps and cardio.

[jolter604]

I was poking my wife with my chub doing squats today,priceless.she is off and on but she has noticed my cycle results and is ready to get back into it.

[Khazima]

Get her back into the weights and compliment when she 'balloons up', she'll love it in no time haha.

Tone comes from muscle, so if she wants to 'tone up' she needs some muscle. My take on that saying is also that they just want to lose some fat.

[GirlyGymRat]

Get her back into the weights and compliment when she 'balloons up', she'll love it in no time haha. Tone comes from muscle, so if she wants to 'tone up' she needs some muscle. My take on that saying is also that they just want to lose some fat.

Only danger is adding muscle under a layer of fat will make her look bigger until fat drops. I prefer more cardio and strict diet for a month or so and then adding in weight training.

on an aside. I started a 30 day paleo diet. I am 2 days in and already noticing less "puffiness" which is very encouraging in such a short period of time.

It's important for her to hit diet and training hard to see quick results for the motivation factor.

[marcus300]

Only danger is adding muscle under a layer of fat will make her look bigger until fat drops. I prefer more cardio and strict diet for a month or so and then adding in weight training.

on an aside. I started a 30 day paleo diet. I am 2 days in and already noticing less "puffiness" which is very encouraging in such a short period of time.

It's important for her to hit diet and training hard to see quick results for the motivation factor.

I would agree with the above but defo do some light weights which concentrating on the cardio and diet IMHO. Also women tend to hold water so a very low sodium diet and an increase in water daily will help disperse some of the water issues women have. You can use water manipulation to help women water weight but over a long period of time is better. Adding muscle tissue is one of the best ways to lose fat and speed up the metabolism but if she responds well to weights just keep the reps high and weight low. Losing bf will help with her goals while increasing LBM

[MR-FQ320]

Thanks all, GG and Marcus, I'll pass it all on, water weight very applicable too.

[marcus300]

Thanks all, GG and Marcus, I'll pass it all on, water weight very applicable too.

No problem let me know how she gets on

[bigrich4]

My wife found a program on a website she loves, its like an upper body/lower body thing but one day is strength and the other is what they call "pump" she loves it though and to me it looks good too. I think "toning" means hardening up what they have. Get her to do compound movements then all her assistance stuff light and high rep. Like for example.... heavy deads, then like 5 sets of 10-12 front squats, abs, back extensions, chin ups pr if se cant, inverted rows, and finish with jump rope (girls love jumping rope, cuz theyre usually better than us at it)

[Motardpdx]

First diet and the rest will follow....Cheers!

[< <Samson> >]

WTF - I am trying to tone up too

LMAO


Tone up = I want to lose some flab(spoken by a typical non gym goer)