How can I tone up my legs and tummy???

Question

I'm 13. 5'4. 117 pounds.

How can I tone up my thighs and lower legs and my tummy?

I want to do this all in ONE month.

Anything I can do?

(besides going to the gym)

Answer 1

Eat a little less, it helps tone them up faster.

Drink lots, it helps tone up faster too.

And for exercises, try calf raises, squats, sit ups leg raises, bridging, burpees theres a heap you can do.

and go for runs, that helps keep your legs looking nice too.

Answer 2

To tone your body, you need to work the muscles in that area- so toning your thighs would involve working your leg muscles and toning your tummy would mean working your abdominal muscles (or abs). Personally, I find the most effective way to tone your body is to choose a simple routine (or develop your own- just choose the exercises which you like the most and put them together) to do at least 3 times a week. If you do them frequently, you should see results soon (although I’m not so sure about one month- exercises have different effects on different people depending on their body) Here are some of my suggestions:

You might want to start by doing a little bit of cardio exercise- this is the type of exercise in which you use a lot of energy, increases your heart rate (and therefore makes you sweat a lot). Although cardio does not necessarily help tone your body, you could use it to warm yourself up (eg. doing star jumps before moving on to toning exercises) and it will help get rid of some of your excess fat.

Personally, I find thigh muscles easier to tone as there is a wider range of different exercises that you can do. Also, you don’t need to make time to do leg toning exercises as you can do some of them sitting down! eg.

- lift your heels off the ground, hold for a few seconds and then bring them back to their original position

- In the same ways, you can raise your toes, while resting your heels on the ground. Hold the position for a couple of seconds and then bring your toes back to their original position.

- straighten your legs in the forward direction and then tighten your thigh muscles and try to lift your legs. Hold the position for a few seconds and then come back to your original position.

These are simple exercises which you can do at any time of the day when you are sitting down. However, they are not as effective as other leg exercises which you can do when exercising. There are many different leg exercises (which only take a few minutes to do) such as squats, lunges and kicks. A good resource to find different leg exercises is youtube- although you can find many others on the internet just by typing “leg toning exercises”. Here are some suggestions:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxm-PtHHg... – a five minute leg toning exercise routine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGaOkZqJA... frog squats (which are good for toning legs)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyLIM0wk8... some more leg exercises

One of the most common abdominal exercises (for the tummy) is crunches. These are like sit ups only you don’t go all the way up. You’ve probably heard of them before but incase you haven’t check out this video on how to do them:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axuXOwDQU...

They are said to be the best workout for the abs but many people claim they do not see results after many months of doing crunches.

Another abdominal exercise is the “plank” which is explained on this website:

http://exercise.about.com/od/abs/ss/abex... it also contains other ab exercises (including many variations of crunches)

Here are some more suggestions:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BjWLaGqE... a five minute workout for the abs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9Q0t-ZiM... another five minute routine for the abs

Spend some time looking through those and search for more exercises if this is not exactly what you were looking for. Give them all a try and pick the ones which work the best for you. There are millions of different ideas on the internet – these are just the ones which have worked for me. Keep your choices short (so you can remember the exercises) and change your routine slightly every once in a while so that you don’t get bored too easily.

Happy exercising!

Answer 3

push ups and sit ups.