Toning

• 3 Things You Need to Know About Getting Toned

  Toning, or the appearance of lean muscle, is one of the most common goals of all gym goers. Lean muscle is appealing. It just takes a short trip through the check-out lines at the local...[more]

• Fit for Life: Your Fitness Guide from 18 to 108

  Fitness is a lifetime habit, or at least, it should be. Unfortunately, some of us don't pick up the habit until later in life. However, there are general guidelines we can all use at any...[more]

• How You Can Stay Bikini-Ready Throughout Winter

  We all dread it. The most terrifying time of the year for our waistlines, gym routines, and gas bills. Yes folks, the long months are upon us. And if you're like me you may be...[more]

• Booty Barre: You'll Be Looking for Your Old Tutu in No Time

  Dancers have some of the most enviable bodies around: tight and toned, but lean and graceful. Booty Barre, a group fitness class that morphed into a fitness DVD sensation, takes all the athleticism of dance...[more]

• Sculpt Your Body without a Scalpel

  While the media would have you believe that morphing into a completely different--and better--version of yourself is just a few months, several paychecks, and a scalpel incision away, surgery obviously isn't the only way to...[more]

• Shape Up These 3 Top Trouble Zones

  Everyone has their own personal trouble zone when it comes to their body. No matter what it is, everyone has at least one area they're self-conscious about. You know what won't fix it? Complaining. You...[more]

• Bridal Boot Camp: Getting Your Wedding in Shape

  It may be the most nerve wracking question you'll ever ask yourself... "How do I look in this dress?" No woman wants to look anything but spectacular on her wedding day. It may be short...[more]

• Working and Exercising - Together for Better Health and Productivity

  Exercise boasts many benefits - it burns calories; decreases the risk for many chronic diseases; reduces or prevents, high blood pressure; lessens feelings of depression and anxiety; strengthens bones and muscles; and improves mood. Adults...[more]

• Planning for Successful Weight Loss

  Achieving a long-term goal typically requires careful planning. Weight loss is no different. While there are numerous "quickie" diets that promise fast results, they do not prove to be healthy, realistic or sustainable. In order...[more]

• Getting Bikini-Season Ready Part 2: The Exercise

  We all know that diet only gets us so far when it comes to getting your body fit. At some point, you need to put the physical work in to get your body in shape....[more]

• Ready? Set! 5 Exercises For Spring

  Understanding how your body responds to exercise is like how it feels when you press on the gas pedal in your car and you get up to 55 mph in a heart beat. Spring is...[more]

• 4 TRX Suspension Training Exercises You Can Do at Home.

  The benefits of training with a TRX Suspension Training System for just about everyone are undeniable. From hard core athletes to traveling executives to the busy stay at home mom, the portability and versatility make...[more]

• Weight Loss Plateaus: How to Get Over the Hump

  You've put in the hard work. You've overhauled your diet. You've put in countless hours at the gym, sticking to those grueling workouts time and time again. You've been rewarded with continuously-dropping numbers on...[more]

• 3 Easy Full-Body Exercises, 1 Piece of Equipment

  If you are looking for one very efficient piece of exercise, look no further than the kettlebell. Kettlebell workouts are famous for burning fat by increasing lean muscle while building balance and grace. Plus it...[more]

• 8 Band Exercises in 8 Minutes

  Many of us spend endless hours on a computer or stuck behind a desk each day, but our bodies are meant to move! Exercise bands (especially the ones with handles) are a great way to...[more]

• Get Moving! 5 Ways to Work Your Core

  Here are fives ways to help you develop the waist that you've been working towards. Once you've already begun to clean up your diet, your next step is to start an exercise routine that combines...[more]

• Real FitDay Users Share: What Was Your "A-Ha" Moment?

  What sparked you to embark on your fitness journey? For many of us, it was one moment or incident - the "a-ha" moment - that got our butts in gear and changed our lives forever....[more]

• New Year, New You: 6 Easy Ways to Get Moving

  Well, the New Year has arrived and you're sitting down thinking about how you're going to make this year the best by getting fit. You can do this by making your health your number...[more]

• Spot Training Exercises: Toning Your Arms

  Spot training exercises will help you get sleek, toned arms. Everyone wants to be able to pick up their kids without hurting themselves. Many people also want to be able to wear sleeveless tops...[more]

• 8 Tummy Toning Exercises for the Middle Aged Man

  Fighting the male belly bulge can be successfully achieved with some basic tummy toning exercises. Keep in mind that positive results are best achieved in conjunction with a healthy weight loss program. The more...[more]

• Tummy Toning Exercises for the Middle Aged Woman

  Tummy toning exercises are important at any age, but more so in middle age. As you age and life's stresses increase, your body's physiology changes, resulting in more abdominal fat. Tummy toning exercises help...[more]

• Working Your Back and Shoulders: 5 Toning Tricks

  During bathing suit season, both men and women long for toned shoulders and a sleek back. Yet many people forget to work these muscles when they hit the gym. Standard strength training exercises such...[more]

• 3 Ways to Sculpt Your Shoulders

  Sculpted shoulders are often one of the most sought-after looks. Great shoulders can make or break a sleeveless shirt, dress or even bathing suit. In order to achieve great success when trying to sculpt...[more]

• 4 Ways to Tone Your Calve Muscles

  Your calf muscles are located on the backs of your lower legs and are required for many daily functions such as walking, climbing and even driving. In order to continue performing these daily activities...[more]

• How to Get Toned in the Pool: 5 Arm Exercises

  Working out in the pool can be type of low impact exercises, recommended for people with joint or back problems, pregnant women or for people that simply want a change in their workout routine....[more]

• What is the Pelvic Floor?

  The pelvic floor is made up of several layers of muscles, tissues, and ligaments that support the bladder, urethra, uterus, vagina and rectum. The pelvic floor muscles are attached to the front, back and...[more]

• Strengthening the Pelvic Floor

  If you are like most people, chances are you are not familiar with the part of your body known as the pelvic floor. The pelvic floor is basically a group of muscles that are...[more]

• Sculpting the Calf Muscles

  When it comes to sculpting your calf muscles, also known as calve muscles, it takes commitment just like anything else. There are exercises to learn, then there is the fact that if you want...[more]

• Using Squat Stands to Tone Your Backside

  Standing Squats are a surefire method of toning your backside. Doing standing squats is a way that you can see results in a reasonable amount of time. Squats Squats are a great way to...[more]

• Toning Up with Hand Grips

  Toning up by using hand grips is something that is getting more popular these days. Hand grips can best be thought of as portable exercise equipment that have a lever function on them and...[more]

• Building Muscle Using a Pull Up Bar

  A pull up bar is an effective piece of exercise equipment that is as easy to install as it is to actually use. As far as motivation and encouragement go, a pull up bar...[more]

• How to Get a Six Pack Fast

  Plenty of people want to get a six pack fast. It's not that difficult, if you know what steps to take. Read on to learn how you, too, can get a rippling, sexy six...[more]

• Toning Shoes: Are They as Effective as They Say They Are?

  You have probably seen people walking around in strange platform-like blocks, called toning shoes. Toning shoes claim to promote weight loss by causing your muscles to work harder to balance you on the unstable...[more]

• Incorporating YouTube's 8 Minute Abs Workout into Your Fitness Routine

  The YouTube 8-Minute Abs Workout is becoming increasingly popular among fitness enthusiasts. If you are looking for an easy and effective abs workout to add to your fitness routine, this is a great option...[more]

• How to Tighten the Skin on Your Thighs after Weight Loss

  One of the challenges many of us face after weight loss is how to tighten skin that sags. Such skin is often associated with rapid weight loss. This may be achieved by surgery, drastic...[more]

• How to Tighten the Skin on Your Thighs after Weight Loss

  So you've recently lost weight--and while you may be thrilled with your current weight, chances are that you aren't as happy about the loose skin that is now appearing, and are looking for a...[more]

• How Beach Towels Enhance Your Workouts

  Starting a workout regimen can be overwhelming when it seems like you need to spend hundreds of dollars on workout equipment, but what if all you needed was a cheap beach towel? Beach towel...[more]

• 5 Fitness Disk Workouts

  Fitness discs are a great tool to add to your home gym. They are inexpensive, versatile and portable. The small discs allow you to get a greater range of movement as you slide them...[more]

• Kettlebell Toning

  Kettlebells are versatile exercise tools that you can easily fit into your workout for both toning and weight loss goals. Unlike dumbbells, kettlebells require you to use your core muscles for each exercise. Their...[more]

• How to Do the Plank Exercise

  According to the American Council on Exercise, the plank exercise is one of the top ten abdominal exercises. This exercise is a great way to flatten your stomach, strengthen your core and improve the...[more]

• How to Do the Modified Plank Exercise with Row

  The plank exercise is one of the most effective ways to tighten your stomach and create those desired ab lines. In addition to toning your stomach, adding a row to the plank exercise will...[more]

• How to Do the 360 Plank Exercise

  At this point of your fitness plan, you might have mastered the regular plank, added in the plank with row, and potentially even thrown in a side plank exercise or two. But, are you...[more]

• 5 Belly Toning Exercises to Tighten Skin after Weight Loss

  There are a number toning exercises that can help tighten skin on your belly after a significant weight loss. Extra loose skin is common after losing a large amount of weight and belly fat...[more]

• 5 Arm Toning Exercises to Tighten Skin after Losing Weight

  After a significant weight loss, your next challenge is to tone up and tighten skin that is left behind. Trying to get rid of loose skin can be extremely frustrating, especially when it’s on...[more]

• 5 Leg Toning Exercises to Tighten Loose Skin after Losing Weight

  Congratulations on losing a significant amount of weight! The next step is to tighten loose skin left on your body especially around your legs, so you’ll feel comfortable wearing shorts and be ready for...[more]

• How Isometrics Tightens and Tones

  Using isometrics is a great way to tighten and tone the muscles in your body. Rather than working hard to pump a ton of iron or implementing cardio to work your muscles hard, isometrics is...[more]

• 3 Ways to Slim and Tone for Bikini Season

  There's nothing like the impending summer weather and the fear of putting on a bikini to make most people try to slim and tone their bodies. When it comes to obtaining that bikini body,...[more]

• 5 Ways Kettlebells Help Tone

  Many top trainers and fitness experts have helped clients find some specific value and benefits in working out with kettlebells. These unique fitness tools help to work a variety of muscle groups by adding...[more]

• How the Bar Method Tones the Body

  The Bar Method is an exercise program that uses interval style training to increase muscle strength and density, burn fat and create a leaner, stronger physique. The Bar Method uses a ballet barre to...[more]

• 8 Tips to Tone Up Fast while Ill

  It's possible to still tone up fast even if you are ill. It's important to balance rest with exercise, but doing these simple movements while sick will help you still burn calories and return...[more]

• What Muscle Toning Equiptment Works Best?

  Muscle toning equipment is very important for toning and shaping the body. Different kinds of equipment focus on different parts of the body. One of the best things about the various types of muscle...[more]

• 4 Ways to Tone Your Hamstrings

  Hamstrings are the muscles at the backs of the thighs and more specifically, refer to one of the three posterior thigh muscles. Because of their position and their natural strength, hamstrings can be difficult...[more]

• Firm Up Forever with this Women's Fitness Program

  This women's fitness program can help you firm up and lose weight more quickly. It can also help you establish good fitness habits that will last a lifetime. Whether you are overweight, slender, in...[more]

• How to Slim and Tone Post Pregnancy

  After you've had your baby, it's difficult to find the time to exercise and shed those last few pounds of baby weight. However, you don't need to spend hours in the gym to slim down and tone...[more]

• Boost Your Confidence: Slim and Tone to Your Ideal Body

  When you slim and tone your body, you boost your confidence while improving your health. With more muscle, your metabolism will improve because muscle burns more calories than fat. People with a more toned...[more]

• Slim and Tone without Gaining Muscle Weight

  You want to slim and tone, so you're eating right and working out. But how can you slim and tone while avoiding gaining muscle weight? Dietary Concerns In order to create a toned body,...[more]

• Tone Up Fast: How to Train for a Marathon

  Preparing to run in a marathon does require some extent of training, but with the right information and preparation, and person can accomplish both and tone up fast, while learning how to train for...[more]

• Women's Fitness Program: Complete a Pull Up

  The humble pull up should be incorporated into any self respecting womens fitness program, as it has been the staple of any basic workout system for many years, and for good reason.  Toning the...[more]

• Abdominal Toning Belt: Myth or Miracle?

  If you are trying to add tone and definition to your abdominal muscles, then you've no doubt run across an abdominal toning belt and wondered if it might be able to help you reach your...[more]

• Toning Gel vs. Toning Table

  If you're looking to get a toned look, you might be wondering if toning gel or a toning table is right for you. While neither product beats a good old fashioned workout routine, both...[more]

• The Truth About Toning Gel: Does it Work?

  You have probably read, seen or heard about toning gel. But, like many other products out there that promise you fast results and a better-looking you without much effort on your part, toning gel...[more]

• Slim and Tone without a Gym

  A slim and tone exercise regimen, easily accomplished at home or without a gym and major equipment, lies at everyone's fingertips. Having a positive attitude, a few pieces of equipment and a well thought...[more]

• Achieve Muscle Definition: Slim and Tone Today

  When you slim and tone, you not only achieve muscle definition, you help boost your metabolism and your self-confidence. There are several ways to improve your body and how you feel in just a...[more]

• Is It Possible to Slim and Tone in 30 Minutes?

  It is possible to slim and tone in a 30 minute workout. If you do 30 minutes even just 3 times a week, you'll potentially notice increased strength, calorie burn and flexibility within 3...[more]

• Slim and Tone before the Big Day

  You want to slim and tone for your big day. No matter whether your big day is your wedding, that big class reunion or another special date, you want to look your best. Here...[more]

• 4 Tips to Tone Up Fast while Traveling

  The frequent traveler still has the ability to tone up fast, with the proper planning and resourcefulness. You won't want to carry a set of hand weights with you every time you jet set, so...[more]

• Eat Better: The Key to Tone Up Fast

  Poor eating can sabotage your attempts to tone up fast. Good nutrition can help your body cleanse itself, which reduces bloatedness. Certain foods feed muscles better than others. The correct balance of nutrients will...[more]

• Start Running Today and Tone Up Fast

  No matter what time of year, be it post-Christmas or pre-summer, many of us get the desire to tone up fast. These points in the year give you that initial push, but whenever we look to...[more]

• Tone Up Fast with a Personal Trainer

  Many individuals who want to get in shape or tone up fast can accomplish this with a personal trainer. They find that they reach their goals quicker by using their professional services. Personal trainers...[more]

• Pump Iron and Tone Up Fast

  You don't want to lift weights and bulk up anymore. You want to pump iron and tone up fast. What Happens Lifting heavy weight with low reps will certainly build and strengthen muscle. Basically...[more]

• Women's Fitness Program: Complete a Push Up

  This women's fitness program will leave you better able to complete a push up, despite the seemingly daunting quality of the exercise. Women typically have proportionately slighter, small upper bodies, so it's important to...[more]

• Muscle Toning Equiptment Not Found in a Gym

  You have muscle toning equipment in your home right now. There are many household items you can use for stretching that you won't find in the gym, but still will help you increase your...[more]

• The Benefits of Yoga for Runners

  Runners can benefit greatly from yoga's effects on strength, flexibility and balance. Many of the problems runners face, including sore knees, tight hamstrings and lower back pain, can be resolved by practicing yoga asanas....[more]

• How to Tone Your Glutes with Yoga

  Understanding how to tone your glutes is the first step to having the great, shapely glutes you've always wanted. The better you understand the specific exercises that work those muscles intensely and how to...[more]

• 3 Group Fitness Classes for Toning

  Toning exercises can be done on your own using equipment either at home or at a gym, but taking group fitness classes with a toning emphasis is a great way to shake up your...[more]

• Pilates: How to Tone Your Body Fast

  When you're looking to find how to tone your body effectively and efficiently, look no further than Pilates. Pilates is a wonderful toning and strength training method that is good for people of all...[more]

• How to Tone Your Body in the Pool

  Knowing how to tone your body is simple once you have some basic information. Swimming is a great way to tone your muscles. It offers a full body workout, it's low impact so it doesn't...[more]

• Muscle Toning Equipment You Already Have

  There's a common misconception that you need to have access to a gym to find adequate muscle toning equipment, when in fact, many common household items are perfect for strength and resistance training. You'll...[more]

• How to Tone without Breaking a Sweat

  Many people don't know how to tone their bodies without breaking a sweat. It's possible to tone your muscles with a series of quick workouts spaced throughout the day. In this manner, you can...[more]

• The Best Stomach Toning Exercises

  There are many stomach toning exercises, and in order to find the best ones, you must make sure to target all the muscle groups in your stomach. Your abdominals have many different parts and...[more]