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Can I Get Enough Probiotics From Food?

Can I Get Enough Probiotics From Food?

Published by on May 15, 2023 | Leave a response

What are probiotics? Can you get all the probiotics from food that you need? Those are questions many people have when first hearing the terms. Probiotics are beneficial microbes, such as bacteria, fungi, and viruses that live in our bodies. The body has both harmful and beneficial microbes. The beneficial ones perform services that make our body healthier, such as aiding in food digestion, fighting off harmful microbes, and aiding in the creation of vitamins.

Probiotics need to survive in the intestines after they’re consumed.

To be a probiotic, it first has to survive the digestive process and survive in the gut. It’s an independent entity that isn’t an original part of the body. It must provide benefits and be safe to consume. The three most common types of probiotics sold in supplement form today include two bacteria, Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium, both produce lactic acid, and the yeast Saccharomyces boulardii. You can increase all three microbes by eating food high in live bacteria, such as yogurt, kefir, sauerkraut, and other fermented foods.

You can eat your way to a healthier microbiome, but you have to look closely.

If you’re replenishing your microbiome with food, make sure the food contains live microbes. The manufacturing process often kills the very microbes that provide health benefits. If you’re buying yogurt, look for the words “active cultures” or “live” on the label. For sauerkraut, opt for unpasteurized, since pasteurization kills bacteria. Some pickles have probiotic benefits, but not the ones made with vinegar.

Keep your probiotics healthy by eating prebiotic foods.

Prebiotic foods feed the probiotics in your gut. Foods high in fiber are included in that group. They include fruits, vegetables, and legumes such as chickpeas, beans, raspberries, broccoli, and apples. Those foods increase the population of Bifidobacteria in humans. The fiber and beta-glucan in whole grains also help build friendly bacteria in the large intestines.

  • If you can’t eat probiotic foods, supplementation is an option, especially if you have certain health issues, such as inflammatory diseases, IBS, diarrhea, allergies, and urinary tract infections.
  • Some people shouldn’t take probiotic supplements. Those with a compromised immune system or on immune suppression therapy, SBO sufferers, or who have histamine intolerance, since some bacteria strains promote histamines, while others block it.
  • Sugar impedes the growth of certain probiotics, often the ones found in healthy, lean individuals. Recent studies show it actually may cause certain bacteria to quit producing ROC that allows them to colonize in the intestines, so they get flushed out.
  • A healthy balance of microbes can help with many illnesses and also aids in weight loss. Some can stop fat absorption, so you can flush the fat away. Other microbes make you build muscle or feel full sooner.

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The Best Foods To Fight Inflammation

The Best Foods To Fight Inflammation

Published by on May 5, 2023 | Leave a response

There are two types of inflammation. One is acute, which responds to injury and helps protect the body. The other is chronic. It’s low-level inflammation that can damage the body. Foods like sugar can cause chronic inflammation, while other food can fight inflammation. An autoimmune disorder, poor diet, lingering bacteria or viral infection, and stress can create chronic inflammation that can cause heart disease, lead to digestive issues, like Crohn’s, or damage blood vessels or joints.

Foods that fight inflammation should be on your grocery list.

Stop at the produce section and you’ll find many foods that reduce chronic inflammation. Leafy greens, such as kale, spinach, collards, tomatoes, blueberries, strawberries, cherries, and oranges are at the top of the list. Nuts like almonds and walnuts are also inflammation fighters. In other departments, you’ll find olive oil and fatty fish like salmon or tuna that help reduce inflammation.

Some spices reduce inflammation.

Turmeric is one of the best-known inflammation fighters, especially since it was thought to help with Alzheimer’s that’s linked to inflammation, Ginger is another spice that aids inflammation. Ginger is known for its anti-inflammatory properties from shogaols and gingerols in ginger and is helpful for soothing stomachs and relieving the pain of arthritis. The capsaicin in cayenne pepper also has anti-inflammatory properties. Cinnamon, cloves, rosemary, and sage also aid in inflammation reduction.

Avoiding foods that cause inflammation can also reduce it.

Sometimes reducing inflammation comes not from what you eat, but from what you don’t eat. Cut out food with added sugar, which includes soft drinks and other sweet drinks. Sugar is in many foods you might not expect, like salad dressing, bread, and ketchup. Trans fats also cause inflammation. Some foods still have trans fats, like baked goods, crackers, and frozen pizza. Processed meat and red meat cause inflammation, just as food high in omega-6 fatty acids, like corn oil, peanut oil, and mayonnaise. Refined carbs, those using primarily white flour, can also cause inflammation.

  • Food with artificial sweeteners or high fructose corn syrup is even worse than those with sugar. They also cause inflammation, while doing even more to change the gut microbiome.
  • Pineapples and other food with bromelain can aid with digestion and help reduce inflammation in other areas of the body. Studies show it has a positive effect on people with arthritis.
  • Colorful fruits and vegetables are anti-inflammatory. The phytochemicals in the plant provide the benefit, like anthocyanin that makes blueberries blue.
  • Switch your drink of choice to tea. All types of tea, oolong, or green, provide anti-inflammatory properties. Herbal teas can also benefit the body. Ginger tea, chamomile tea, turmeric tea, and peppermint tea are a few choices.

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Is Sugar Ruining Your Health?

Is Sugar Ruining Your Health?

Published by on April 25, 2023 | Leave a response

Whether the health issue is diabetes, obesity or high blood pressure, consuming excess sugar probably played a role, if not the main role. Humans have always loved food with a sweet taste. Babies immediately love the sweet taste of baby food dessert far more than they like green beans. Some believe it is part of our instincts to like sweet things, dating back to the day when wild food that was sweet was normally safe to eat. Today, sugar is in almost all food, just read the labels. It’s in ketchup, commercial soup, and even canned fruit and it’s ruining your health.

Manufacturers try to trick you with advertising.

You’ve heard the ads for some types of sugar, like high fructose corn syrup. They say it’s natural, so it must be good for you. Tobacco is natural, too and it’s not healthy. The truth is that there’s nothing natural about high fructose corn syrup and nothing healthy about most sugar. The sugar in fruit doesn’t affect your body as much as when you eat the entire fruit, since the fiber in the fruit slows the rush of glucose into the blood.

Sugar assaults the immune system.

The immune system protects the body from bacteria, viruses, and even cancer cells. One of the more important nutrients for immune health is vitamin C. Vitamin C’s structure is similar to glucose. The white blood cells that latch on to vitamin C use it to help fight invaders. When you have too much glucose in your blood, it grabs the glucose, which leaves them powerless. Any food, even some healthy food, like orange juice, can have the same effect, but only if you drink the juice instead of eating the orange. The fiber in the orange slows the amount of glucose entering the bloodstream.

Sugar speeds aging and increase AGEs—advanced glycation end products—in your body.

When protein and fat combine with sugar, it creates AGEs. They accumulate in the body and can build to high levels, increasing the risk for diseases and ironically, speeding up the aging process. AGEs attack collagen and elastin, which are necessary for young looking skin, making you look older than you are. High levels are not only associated with chronic diseases like heart disease, liver disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, high blood pressure and aging. AGEs cause oxidative stress, inflammation, and damage the body’s cells.

  • Sugar is highly addictive, which makes it harder to quit. It enters dopamine receptors in the brain just like opiates, to make you feel good. The more sugar you eat, the more you need to get the same sweet taste.
  • Sugar can lead to heart disease. The American Heart Association suggests men limit sugar intake to 9 teaspoons a day and women limit theirs to 6 teaspoons. The average can of soda contains 9 teaspoons.
  • Poor eyesight, varicose veins, gallstones, and arthritis are increased when you consume too much sugar. It is a far bigger enemy of health than fat, except trans fats.
  • Sugar negatively affects your brain and affects your ability to learn and remember. It can be linked to dementia and memory problems that can occur with aging.

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Are You Overweight Because Of A Hormone Imbalance?

Are You Overweight Because Of A Hormone Imbalance?

Published by on April 15, 2023 | Leave a response

Whether it’s sudden weight gain or weight you’ve tried to lose for years, but just gain more instead, you may be overweight due to a hormone imbalance. That doesn’t mean you’re doomed to be overweight for the rest of your life. You just need to make some changes in what you eat and how you workout and will be back on track in no time.

Most people identify hormonal imbalances with sex hormones, testosterone, progesterone, and estrogen.

Hormones are messengers, giving your body information to help it run properly. Sex hormones do determine how fat is distributed, but other hormones also play a role. Your thyroid hormones, insulin, stress hormones, and ghrelin and leptin—two hormones that control hunger and satiety—play important roles in weight gain, too. Some imbalances require help from a doctor, like those that come from illness or health conditions. However, many can be rebalanced by taking action on your own. You can reset your hormones and lose those extra pounds for good. The simple act of getting adequate sleep can reset the balance between ghrelin and leptin, so you won’t constantly be hungry.

Insulin helps control blood sugar levels.

Insulin is a hormone that alerts the cells to open and take in the glucose in the blood for energy. When you have insulin resistance, the cells fail to open, which causes the body to send more insulin and it spirals out of control until you develop type 2 diabetes. High levels of insulin from insulin resistance can cause weight gain. Ironically, excess fat can cause insulin resistance. Again, the body is stuck in a loop. How do you end the loop? Cut out food with added sugar first. Do high intensity interval training—HIIT. You alternate between high intensity and recovery, triggering glucose uptake by muscles.

Stress can cause weight gain, particularly around the middle.

If you have visceral fat—belly fat—it may come from the stress you face. Stress causes the fight or flight response that sends out hormones to prepare the body for running or fighting. When you run or fight, those hormones burn off, but if you don’t, your body remains in a constant state of alert, which causes the metabolism to slow and the body to store more fat with much of it belly fat. You can combat stress by using meditation and other techniques like deep breathing to calm yourself, which also prevents stress in the first place. Exercise is the second way to reset your hormones back to normal.

  • Sex hormones also can cause weight gain. Not only do you gain weight due to estrogen dominance, but it also affects where it’s distributed on the body. Exercise, drinking more water, and eating more fiber can help.
  • Don’t forget to include healthy fat in your diet. Adding healthy fat to a diet has been shown to increase weight loss. Healthy fat includes olive oil, walnuts, and ghee. Like a keto diet, it can help train the body to burn fat.
  • HIIT workouts increase HGH—human growth hormone. The more HGH you have, the easier it is to build muscle and lose weight.
  • Make sure your diet includes omega-3 fatty acids, magnesium, vitamin C and B vitamins, plus get extra sunshine for increased vitamin D. All these vitamins are necessary for balancing hormones.

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Easy Ways To Burn More Fat

Easy Ways To Burn More Fat

Published by on April 5, 2023 | Leave a response

There are many reasons people benefit so much from training at Rising Fitness in Houston, TX. The personal training, science-backed programs, and years of experience in fitness play an important role. We focus on solid facts and consistent effort, but we also share easy ways to burn more fat that help boost the success of each individual. When building muscle mass and losing fat is your goal, these tips will help you get faster results.

Cardio is great, but don’t forget strength training.

You won’t have the success you want by just doing cardio. Cardio does burn tons of calories, but it gets that energy from both fat tissue and muscle tissue. It can reduce the amount of muscle tissue you have and that makes it even harder to lose weight. Muscle tissue requires more calories for maintenance than fat tissue does, so the more muscle you have, the higher your metabolism. Include strength training in your workout. It burns a lot of calories and those calories come from fat.

Don’t forget to include spicy foods, cold water, and protein in your diet.

Spicy foods, like hot peppers, can burn extra calories by boosting your metabolism. It’s the capsaicin in the peppers that lights the calorie-burning torch. You’ll also burn a few extra calories and get rid of fat by drinking ice-cold water. It takes extra calories to warm the body and it doesn’t require any extra effort. Eating meals high in quality protein provides extra nutrients for building more muscle tissue, which boosts your metabolism. It also fills you up and keeps you feeling full longer.

You need sleep to burn fat.

Sleep plays a huge role in keeping your body fit. Lack of sleep has almost become revered by society, but it plays a huge role in packing fat on the body. Lack of sleep causes an imbalance in the hormones ghrelin—the hunger hormone—and leptin—the hormone that makes you feel full. Lack of sleep suppresses the production of leptin and increases the production of ghrelin, so you’re always hungry. Lack of sleep also lowers your metabolism, so you burn fewer calories throughout the day.

  • Switch the way you workout. Do a HIIT workout. HIIT stands for high intensity interval training. It’s not an exercise, but a way of exercising alternating between high intensity and recovery pace. It keeps the calorie-burning fires going long after the workout ends.
  • Include more fiber in your diet. Slowly add high-fiber foods to your diet, like whole grains, fruits and vegetables. It helps eliminate bloating and keeps you feeling full longer. Adding healthy fat also increases the feeling of satiety.
  • Drink a tall glass of water before you eat. The water will fill you without adding extra calories. You’ll eat less at the meal and leave feeling satisfied, even though you consumed fewer calories.
  • Substitute plain green tea for high-calorie drinks to boost your metabolism and burn more fat. All types of tea contain epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), which increases metabolism, but green tea contains the most.

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Rice Vs Pasta - Is One Better Than The Other?

Rice Vs Pasta – Is One Better Than The Other?

Published by on March 25, 2023 | Leave a response

Whether you’re mixing vegetables with rice or pasta, it’s a budget stretcher. Both provide extra calories and bulk to make vegetables and meat go further. They’re also both good side dishes and have a variety of uses. Rice is a natural whole grain, while pasta is made from flour, water, and sometimes eggs or salt. There’s not just one type of rice or pasta. Rice can be long grain, medium grain or short grain. It can be brown, red, purple, parboiled or instant. Pasta comes in many shapes, from thin angel hair to large lasagna noodles. It can be made from a variety of flours, some of which are quite healthy, but is normally made from durum wheat and flour.

The type of rice you choose makes a difference.

If you choose long-grain rice, you’ll get more protein and fiber than you would in short grain. Choosing whole grain rice like brown rice provides all the nutrients of the bran and germ. Brown rice has antioxidants that lower the risk of serious conditions, but the same amount of calories and carbs as white rice, so you get a boost in nutrition with brown rice. Brown rice also has three times as much fiber, which can also help with blood sugar regulation. It is also higher in protein. Red rice is high in antioxidants. Black rice starts black and turns to blue/purple when cooked. It was once called the forbidden rice, reserved for the ruling class, and is the highest in antioxidants.

Pasta from white flour isn’t as healthy as pasta from whole grain flour.

Pasta from white refined flour is often enriched, but those extra vitamins don’t prevent it from spiking blood sugar levels. It doesn’t contain as much fiber as whole wheat flour does. Whole wheat flour contains both the bran and the germ. The bran and germ provide additional nutritional benefits. It’s lower in carbs and calories due to the extra fiber. It also has more protein and more potassium, phosphorus and magnesium. Other unique types of pasta are also available. Pasta made from lentils, chickpeas or black beans is more nutritious with more fiber, fewer carbs and more protein.

Diabetics will find brown rice a superior choice.

Unless you eat only rice or pasta, both could make healthy options. It all depends on the type of rice or pasta you choose. If you have diabetes, choosing brown rice is superior to white rice. In one study, brown rice lowered fasting blood sugar and insulin levels by significant amounts compared to white rice. Fasting insulin was 57% lower than those of the white rice group. Brown rice is also superior to pasta for lowering blood sugar levels.

  • Brown rice takes 45 minutes to cook, but pasta can take as little as 10 minutes. Brown rice has a short shelf life because the fat in it gets rancid. Whole-grain pasta has a much longer shelf life.
  • What you put on the rice or pasta makes all the difference. A pasta dish with a creamy sauce will often be higher in calories than stuffed peppers with kale. Sauces make a difference and so does the number of vegetables added.
  • You can use pasta alternatives to make a dish healthier. Spaghetti squash and zoodles are two of those options. It can make every dish healthier.
  • You can boost the flavor of rice by cooking it with grated ginger root and a small amount of coconut oil. Ginger also boosts the antioxidant content.

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Exercises You Can Do In Bed For A Flat Stomach

Exercises You Can Do In Bed For A Flat Stomach

Published by on March 15, 2023 | Leave a response

You don’t have to jump out of bed and start exercising first thing in the morning. You can ease into your day with these exercises you can do in bed. These are excellent if you want a flat stomach and can boost circulation to help clear the cobwebs and get your day off to a great start. One is very simple. Some call it a suction exercise when done standing, but you can do it sitting and realign the abdominal muscles. It’s especially good after pregnancy.

You’ll get quick results from the suction exercise modified for the bed.

When doing the suction exercise in bed, sit cross-legged placing your hands on your abdomen. Inhale deeply, expanding your stomach. Exhale while sucking in the abdominal muscles. Blow out as much air as possible as you try to pull your stomach toward your spine. Hold in your stomach while you take deep breaths. Place your hands on your stomach to monitor how well you’re doing. With each exhale, pull your stomach in further. You can do these standing up.

More traditional workouts can be done in bed.

You can do an abdominal crunch or reverse crunch in bed, too. Lie with your knees bent and feet flat on the bed. Put your hands behind your head for neck support. Raise your upper body and hold. Reverse crunches are similar, but you lift your feet off the bed, with your thighs forming an angle. Lift your head, as you raise your legs so your thighs are perpendicular to the bed. Hold for a few seconds, then slowly lower both the head and legs.

Leg scissors and bicycles are fun to do and can boost your circulation.

You’ll be boosting your brain power, while you work your abs when you do a few sets of leg scissors or bicycles. Both are similar. With the bicycle exercise, you lift your legs and move them in a pedaling motion. With scissors, raise your legs as high as possible, pointing your toes toward the ceiling. Raise one leg as you lower the other in a chopping motion. Repeat for 20 to 30 repetitions.

  • Lay flat with your hands by your sides, knees bent and feet flat on the bed, Outstretch your hands and lift your upper body to create a V. Hold for a few seconds then lift your feet off the bed slightly and hold.
  • Don’t hold your breath as you hold your muscle tight, but do exhale as you pull in your stomach, attempting to force all the air out of your lungs with pressure from your abs. Focus. Be more aware of how the muscles feel when you tighten them.
  • You can do scissor kicks at any height. It doesn’t matter if you keep your feet an inch off the bed or raise your toes toward the ceiling. It works abdominal muscles.
  • You can do many traditional abdominal exercises in bed. Our trainers at Rising Fitness in Houston will help you find ones that will fit your needs.

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Best Exercises If You Have Back Problems

Best Exercises If You Have Back Problems

Published by on March 5, 2023 | Leave a response

Like most cities across America, Houston, TX, has its share of people suffering from back problems. When first confronted with the pain, people normally just want to lie down, but that doesn’t help in the long run. For mild back pain and to prevent future back pain, doing exercises for the back and core muscles can help. You need to increase circulation to eliminate back pain and strengthen the underlying muscles.

Is the pain located in your upper back?

Upper back pain requires different exercises from pain in the mid or lower back. You can reduce upper back pain almost immediately with stretching exercises. Stretching the muscles improves circulation and relaxes small muscle cramps. Neck rolls help relieve neck, shoulder and upper back pain. Just slowly roll your head down, to one side, back and then to the other side. Shoulder rolls, arm circles and overhead stretches are exceptional for upper back pain and you can do them anywhere. A seated angel stretch can also be done in a chair. Arch backward as you raise your arms, clasp your hands and stretch behind your body.

Relieve the pain and prevent it with mid-back exercises.

Yoga poses like the cat-cow, can help relieve mid-back pain and also be beneficial for the lower back. Begin on your hands and knees, arching your back upward as you lower your head, like an angry cat. Hold. Slowly raise your head, while lowering your mid-back until your buttocks and shoulders are high and your mid-back is lower, like a swayback cow. Hold then repeat.

Tight hamstrings can cause back pain.

A hamstring stretch is amazing for lower back pain relief. You need a rolled-up towel and a place to lie down with your knees bent and feet flat on the floor. Roll the towel, grasping it with one hand on each end, creating a loop. Lift one foot and loop the towel under it, then gently raise that foot by pulling on the ends of the towel, straightening the leg. as you pull the foot toward you. When you feel the stretch, lower the foot and do the other side.

  • If you have symptoms of something more serious, like bowel or bladder problems, fever, or if the pain came after a fall, see a doctor immediately. If there is numbness, it lasts longer than a few weeks or it spreads down both legs, also check with your healthcare professional.
  • Strengthening the abs and core muscles can help prevent back pain. If your abdominal muscles aren’t strong, it makes the back muscles work too hard to keep you upright. When your back feels better, try doing planks.
  • Do a bridge exercise. Lay on your back with knees bent, feet flat on the floor and hands near the hips. Raise your bottom off the floor until it creates a straight 45-degree angle. Keeping your abs tight, lowering your body.
  • Improving circulation in the back is imperative. Walking can help you do that, but only if you maintain good posture. It not only boosts circulation, but also helps loosen the muscles.

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Is It Easier For Vegetarians To Lose Weight?

Is It Easier For Vegetarians To Lose Weight?

Published by on February 25, 2023 | Leave a response

It seems like everyone in Houston, Texas, is on some type of special diet, whether it’s low carbs, non-gluten or lactose-free. Some become vegetarians. Choosing a vegetarian way of eating can occur for a number of reasons. Some people choose it for humanitarian reasons, others believe it’s healthier and some choose a vegetarian option to lose weight. There are also different types of vegetarians. There are vegans that eat no animal products, lacto/ovo or lacto-ovo vegetarians that include dairy, eggs or both in their diet. Do any of these help you lose weight?

It’s not about what you don’t eat, but what you do.

No matter what type of diet choices you make, losing weight is not as much about what you don’t eat as what you do eat. While many vegetarians and vegans are thinner, it’s because they eat a lot of fruits and vegetables. Fruits and vegetables are high in fiber and lower in calories, so they get full quicker before consuming enough to put on weight. That is true in some cases, but you can’t forget about the food they do eat, some of which is free of animal products, but still high in calories.

Meat is higher in calories, but it fills you up and is a minor problem compared to sugary treats.

If you’re a vegetarian that indulges in “special” vegetarian treats like cake, cookies, candies or high calorie beverages, don’t expect to get that slim appearance most people associate with vegetarians. Nut butters, dried fruit and alcoholic beverages are all higher in calories and vegetarian options. Sugar is a plant-based product and treats containing sugar can pack on the pounds. Most candy bars are vegan-friendly. Most spirits and liqueurs are also vegan options and can pack on the pounds when consumed too often.

No matter what type of diet you choose, it’s about making smart choices within that framework.

You can lose weight on almost any type of special diet, vegetarian, flexitarian or carnivore. The key is to make smart choices in the allowable food you choose. Sure, it’s easier to shed a few pounds when you eat mostly vegetables. They provide fiber that fills you, but with fewer calories. It’s refined foods, foods higher in sugar and fat that will pack on the pounds and those can be part of any type of diet, whether it’s vegetarian or not.

  • People are often tricked into choosing high calorie vegetarian or vegan foods. They believe that if it’s vegan-friendly, it’s automatically healthy and won’t put on weight. That’s not true at all.
  • Consider how the food is cooked. Cooking in vegetable oil adds extra calories, so does breading. Both types of foods can make you gain weight fast. Deep fried foods shouldn’t be part of any healthy diet.
  • Sticking with whole foods, whether you follow a vegetarian diet or not, is the easiest way to lose weight. Whether it’s a purely vegan candy bar or a bag of pork rinds, junk food can spoil your diet and destroy your health.
  • There are some benefits to choosing a vegetarian diet or a plant-based diet. It can reduce the risk of inflammation, hypertension and obesity, while balancing blood sugar and improving cholesterol profiles.

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How To Trim Thighs Quickly?

How To Trim Thighs Quickly?

Published by on February 15, 2023 | Leave a response

It may be cold outside, but warm weather is just around the corner, which means you still have time to trim your thighs and get your body in shape for beachwear and summer clothing. What can help trim thighs quickly? Exercise. It won’t help you lose fat in a specific area, since fat comes off the body equally in all areas, but it will tone the underlying muscles and make your thighs look thinner, more toned and far more attractive.

Bodyweight exercises can be done almost anywhere.

While you’re waiting for the copy machine to finish your final presentation, do a few squats. They’re excellent for improving thighs. In fact, if you want quicker results, find places where you can do a few extras, like at the sink when you’re doing dishes or preparing supper or squatting when picking up clothes and cleaning the house. You can modify the squats to work different muscles. It’s a matter of adjusting the width of your feet. Go wider than shoulder-width for some and narrower when you’re doing another set, or do a jump squat, which is the best for toning thighs.

Getting in your cardio can help tone the thighs.

Whether you walk, run or climb steps, it’s all good. It provides a cardio workout that burns calories to help you lose weight, while also working the thighs. If you can find a beach with a sand hill, even better. While running up any hill will tighten the inner thigh, trying to run up a sand hill burns even more calories and works your legs harder. Riding bikes with the kids can also tone the thighs.

Save your joints and contact your inner ballerina to tone your thighs.

While jump squats can be a high impact workout, ballet movements that target the thighs normally aren’t. Other low impact exercises that can tone your thighs include yoga and tai chi. All these movements can help tone the legs without causing you to breath hard, so you still need to add cardio to your workout. A plie is similar to a squat and the wider the stance, the better it is for the thighs. Big toe pose, camel pose, child pose and easy pose are a few yoga poses that help.

  • Thigh exercises not only tone the thighs, they help eliminate the jiggle of poor muscle tone and cottage cheese appearance of cellulite. Your legs will look shapelier and more attractive.
  • One easy exercise to learn that’s effective on reducing thigh girth is the walking lunge. The walking lunge engages all the muscles used in running and walking, but in an exaggerated manner, to bring fast results.
  • Believe it or not, lifting weights can tone your thighs and also be part of your strength-building workout. The proper form for lifting is with your legs, not your back. You can even include squats and lunges while holding weights.
  • A rolled up towel or playground ball can act like a thigh-master, that’s less expensive. Put it between your legs and squeeze with your thighs as you watch television.

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