Is it possible to end the jiggling of the thighs?

I'm thin (5'7", 100lbs) but when I walk and I'm in just a bathing suit or something, my thighs very visibly jiggly. Its really rather nasty, I can't thump my leg or anything without a major ripple effect. My calves also jiggle when I move my feet. Is there a way that I can tone down the jiggling? And make my calves not muscular but just more toned (so they have that line that runs through them when they're muscular)? Exercises please...

Woops, I meant to write 5'7" 110 pounds.

leg extensions, leg curls, and squats for your upper leg,and calf raises for calves

If you just do weighted squats you'd help your thighs. If you're industrious, do dead lifts. They make my butt and back of my thighs fabulous.

PS: how can you be 110 lbs at 5'7" and be jiggling? Seriously.

Hello,

Even at 110lbs, at  your height, you are still underweight.
I am all for you wanting to get tone and fit. I encourage that, but PLEASE make sure you continue to eat enough, and eat healthy.
Even more so, if you are going to be working out you need to make sure you eat enough to fuel your body's normal expenditure, in addition to the calories burned during exercise.

Please let me know if you have any questions!

MC,
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at 5'7", 110 lbs, you can't possibly have very much muscle on you - that's likely why your thighs jiggle.  you're like i am right now, a 'skinny fat' (though i'm further in the process of changing it) - not a ton of fat on you, but what's there doesn't look good b/c your body fat percentage is actually really high b/c you have so little lean body mass (muscle).  You need to do resistance training, probably the whole body over, not just the legs, but here i'll just give some leg exercises.

it would help to know what part of your thighs are jiggling - just the inner thigh or the subcutaneous fat everywhere?

do you belong to a gym?

even if you don't, squats!  if it's the inner thigh, you can do a 'duck squat' where you stand with your legs a little more widely apart, toes pointing slightly outward.  also, stiff-leg dead lifts.  i actually like doing back lunges (you end in the same position as a normal lunge but step backward instead of forward). 

for beginners, leg press is good b/c it's easy, form wise (be sure to bring your legs down the full range of motion; you can also use the leg press to do calf raises w/ more weight than you'd be able to do standing + i think it's more comfortable than seated calf raises b/c of the positioning). 

you can do calf raises w/o any equipment - basically just take 2 weights in your hands + stand on your toes, squeezing your calf muscles as you do it.  you can also do one foot at a time as a way to increase the weight.  i do 4 sets of 40 (i would do fewer reps but i don't have a leg press or seated calf machine to do it on, so i don't have the option of high weight, low rep) - you can do this anywhere, waiting in line, in the shower, etc..  you should really feel a burn on this one.  don't stop until you do. 

i wouldn't bother with leg extensions or curls, or the adductor/abductor machines (some people may disagree with me on this, but when i used to belong to a real gym, i saw women going at it all day on the ab/adductors and i don't think it ever made a difference in their legs).  they are basically isolation exercises - you are so much better off doing a few sets of squats, lunges, and calf raises.   good luck!  -erin

Everyone had great suggestions. Please do not be bummed if you gain a few pounds from doing the excellent exercises recommended in the replies... muscle weighs more than fat and your weight is so low right now that you may very well gain a few. But you will actually look leaner and you will be way more healthy.

gees, why don't you all just kick a person when she's down! there is no need to criticize her and tell her she has no muscle and it is impossible, non of you know her. just help her and don't put her down.
And just to clear something up muscle does not weigh more than fat it just takes up less space than fat, 1 pound of muscle weighs the same as 1 pound of fat, it is just smaller.

Yeah sorry bodyscience, it was simpler to say that it weighed more but you're right :)

Hi! Thanks for the suggestions, all very well. I do eat plenty, I used to be anorexic and have gained quite a bit since then, that was the year before this last one and this summer I've gained about seven lbs so far. :O

And yes, they do jiggle a lot! The whole things. And I don't belong to a gym. Thanks for the tips, I'll try these exercises! :) Squats, I'll have to start those up again fo' sure.

Question for BodyScience and Spirochete, is "dead lift" the same as doing the machine that you kind of lay on face up in a semi-squat position and lift the weights with your legs?   If not, does it give the same results?  I use that machine and I like what it does for my thighs but I didn't notice buttocks or back of leg increase.  What machine would emulate the "dead lift".  I am intimidated by the free weights a bit as I think I could hurt myself.

You can't do a dead lift on a machine. Opinions are like buttholes and everyone has one, my opinion is machines are worthless. Anything you do on a machine can not be replicated with non-machine lifts. I could throw on 250lbs on that leg press and almost died trying to squat just the bar the first time (45 lbs). You use so many more muscles doing free weights so why cheat yourself?

http://www.exrx.net/WeightExercises/GluteusMa ximus/BBDeadlift.html

That's a correct dead lift. No one wants anyone to get hurt, that's for sure. Do you go to a gym? Ask one of the trainers to help you with your form; they should help you no problem.

Ok, thanks.... I guess i need to get over the intimidation factor... another is all the people that lift weights.  I feel like I will be in their way.  I go to the YMCA and am not really impressed with this particular Branches "experts", so thanks for the link.  And thank you very much for taking the time to answer.

I love that site!  It even gave me targeted weights.... That is another problem, with the machines, I can adjust to find out my weight load capabilities easily.  With free wieghts I can't.

You know, bidyscience, if you want to get technical, all you can say is muscle is more dense than fat. True, a pound of muscle weighs as much as a pound of fat, but takes up less space. Or you could just as well say that a cubic inch of muscle takes up as much space as a cubic inch of fat, but it weighs more. Either way is true.

spirochete - can I emulate the dead lift with dumbbells instead of the bar?  I'm sure it's more difficult to maintain the correct form but I'm looking for ways to get the same results at home with what I have available.

jenarice, you can definitely do deadlifts with dumbbells. 

I'm a big fan of the straight leg deadlift, which targets in on your hamstrings more than your glutes.  Very good for firming up the muscle in that unfortunate area for many women.  :)  Either do them like this, or just come up halfway to the point of your knees and back down.  Be sure you are lifting with the backs of your legs primarily, and not with your back. 

Ok, thanks.... I guess i need to get over the intimidation factor... another is all the people that lift weights.  I feel like I will be in their way.  I go to the YMCA and am not really impressed with this particular Branches "experts", so thanks for the link.  And thank you very much for taking the time to answer.

Almost everyone feels that way at first, trust me. I'm usually the only women who ventures into the free weight section of my gym, and I'm the only one I have EVER seen there using the squat rack doing serious dead lifts. I'm sure I'm in someone's way all the time but you know what, too bad! I paid to be there just like they did. If some guy who squats 250lbs has to sit there and wait for me to do 100lbs, that's how it goes. Just because I'm not benching the weight of three people doesn't mean my workout isn't important.

Muscle DOES Weigh more than fat.  It is considerably  heavier but looks leaner and smaller.  Come on people..........

LittleSara - it's true that muscle is denser, so it would take more of it to fill the same area as fat, therefore adding more pounds, but it doesn't "weigh more". 1 pound = 1 pound, always. I think you get that and I see what you were trying to say, but just clarifying.