Toning Your Muscles Through Your Workouts

Mind is All

In theory, it might seem like it would be much easier to tone your muscles than to build muscle mass, but this is not necessarily the case. While building muscle mass requires you to workout every other day, you actually need to work out every day if you want to tone your muscles. And even though you need to use higher weight to build muscle mass, you get to do low reps, while you are stuck doing high reps if you want to tone your muscles. If you are in a place where you want to tone your muscles, follow these tips to accomplish this more easily.

Decide exactly what muscles you are wanting to tone; this is the first thing you will need to do. Lots of people say they want to 'tone their whole body,' which is a mistake, as the workouts quickly become too intense and they do not stick with them. When you pick muscles to focus on early on, pick just a few different groups, and then take the time to search for workouts that will take care of as many of these areas at once as possible.

Because you are going to be working out every day in order to tone your muscles, you should choose workouts that are low-impact. Furthermore, it will be easier for you to workout every day if the workouts you pick are ones that you enjoy.

Also, keep your eye out for unique workouts that will enable you to tone your muscles without feeling like you are "working out." One such workout is yoga, which is actually a great workout for helping you remain healthy as well as for toning your muscles.

Once you get a class of muscles toned to the desired extent, you can switch to a different group, returning to that first group every once in a while. As you continue to do this, you will eventually tone all the muscles you are hoping to tone, and can then begin to rotate through your workouts a couple weeks at a time!

When you first begin to work toward toning your muscles, it can be difficult; but the work will pay off in time, as you will feel leaner and healthier than you have felt in a long time, and you will be endlessly happy that you put in the work!