For more info visit my site at: www.brinkzone.com Toning and Firming, does it really exist? How does one tone and firm? There’s no such thing as “toning and firming.” How can that be you ask? I will tell you. Your body has no idea -or specific mechanism-for “toning and firming.” You can gain or lose fat and you can gain or lose muscle. That’s it. Those are essentially your choices based on biological reality when trying to alter your body composition. Now, if you lose some fat and gain some muscle, you will be more “toned” in appearance and “firm” to the touch, but the body does not know from toning and firming, and that’s a fact. Thus, your goal should be to lose fat (not just weight!) and gain, or at least maintain, muscle. People who focus on weight loss only often end up a smaller version of their former selves, often flabby and with high bodyfat levels. They are neither “toned” in appearance or “firm” to the touch. Why? Because they made the mistake of focusing on the wrong goals of weight loss and “toning and firming” versus what actually matters: losing fat and gaining muscle. Telling people they need to lose fat and gain muscle to achieve the body they want does not sell diets, supplements, and exercise programs to people; it’s not catchy or sexy, but the generic term “toning and firming” sounds perfect for selling all of the above. My articles, seminars, books, ebooks, etc. have always focused on that key message of what actually matters once you strip away the …
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I think that companys use “all natural” because so many people are so uneducated that they see stuff like creatine, and citrulline or even BCAAs and they think.that.these natural amino acids are something like a steroid, so they say all natural to”ease” their worries
this might just be the most logical video i have seen on youtube. subbed
thanks, will…cleared a lot of confusion there…but i’ve got a condition of pseudo-hypoparathyroidism and i just spoke to my doctor today…what he told me is this: “you’ve got as many muscle cells as you’re ever going to get…you can’t add any more muscle cells, but you can increase the size of those existing cells”…that wasn’t exactly the most inspiring remark, but what kind of gains, then, do you think i can realistically expect overtime (assuming proper nutrition and training)?
@DirEnRefused
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@DKerelchuk
As a rule, no, one can’t spot reduce.
@amivag77 Fat loss and muscle gaining are the only things you can do
Soooo…. area specific weight loss? Can I target midsection fat loss with more core training?
@amivag77
Increased blood flow (pump) is not tone of course, it’s just blood. Changes takes place before actual muscle is built for sure , but long term, two tissues are what matter: muscle and fat. That’s what needs to be tracked (eg, actual changes in body composition…), vs the invented marketing term of “toning and firming”
Excellent. Your line about “no one waking up with muscle that they didn’t expect” is something I’ve been telling people for years almost word for word.
Is it not possible to have tighter or ‘toned’ muscled without gaining muscle mass? For example, right after a workout your muscles look bigger for a period of time. Possibly because of blood flow issues and such. Also, newcomers into training, notice their muscles become tighter and more prominent in the first few weeks into weights (faster than muscle gain would justify). So maybe the concept of muscle toning is not completely fake?