Thigh excersies

I want to lose inches off of my thighs..so any excersies to help?

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Yoga and Pilates really helps. Try swimming for cardio.

3 parts Cardio and 1 part weight training. You need to lose body fat and tone your muscles. Note that you can't spot reduce fat. Be dilligent with your cardio, and do overall body exercise. Your aim is to get your BF% lower. Weight training helps in shaping and defining the muscles for a more lean look.

I disagree with sweet_tart. Unless you're a guy, weighted squats and dead lifts are the BEST thing you can do to help get rid of lower body fat. You're building a little muscle (because you're female) which burns more fat AND looks a lot better. Weight training also burns more calories over a 24 hour period than doing cardio because you keep burning calories throughout the day. With cardio the burning stops when the cardio stops.

Good luck!

You are talking about spot fat reduce. Muscles don't burn the fat right on top of it. If that were the case my thighs would be 18" by now already :)

I don't discount weight training (especially lower body; squats, lunges & deadlifts) they are part of the whole routine. And in this game, everything adds up.

Muscles require a lot more maintenance hence your body keep on burning fuel to feed and restore your muscle mass, even when you are resting. It is true that with cardio the burn pretty much stops when you finish the workout. You can do HIIT cardio which keep your body 'burning' hours after the workout is done.

I think it's ok to do cardio every day for 30min. However it is not adviseable to do weight training every day, just for the simple reason you need to give your muscles a rest and restore period. Keep in mind in the beginning, & this happens not just with me but also for most women, as you start weight training your lower body you might feel "bigger" on those areas. Don't freak out. You are not bulking up. You just simply have a firm muscle mass underneath the layer of fat that's still there. As your fat% lowers your measurement should get smaller too.

sweet_tart,
I've been working on losing inches on my thighs, so thanks for the reassurance that I'm not actually bulking them up with all the exercise. :)

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I have worked out forever...I do 45 min of cardio 4-5 days/week and weight training 3 days.  My thighs were always bigger and more jiggly than I would like even though the rest of me was good.  I chalked it up to genetics and thought that is how it would always be.   I was AMAZED when I started riding a road bike long distances, my butt and thighs started getting really tight and good looking!  Now spin classes and distance riding keep me in my cute jeans.

sweet_tart I am NOT talking about spot fat reducing for crying out loud. Oh Lordy this site.

Weight training, with real, honest to God weights is the BEST thing you can do to make your body thin, sleek and look terrific. The question was about thigh exercises; I gave two of the best conceivable lower body exercises there are. Sorry I confused you.

If you have three days to work out, do three days of weights. You can add as much cardio as you want around that but never do cardio on the same days as weights or else neither will be effective.

Sorry I misunderstood you spirochete. Don't get so frustrated LOL ~.^

In-line skating really does it.  And it's fun, too!

Would running help?

My recommendations for great legs and glutes in order:

Lunges

Squats

Deadlifts

Leg press

leg curl/hamstring curl

Hip adduction/abduction

You need variety like smith lunges, reverse lunges, pliate(sp?) squats, smith squats, one legged squats, dumbbell/barbell deadlifts and so forth.  Diet is 70% of the success though.  Gotta burn that fat off to see the work.  Good luck.

Well, i don't want muscalur legs, and stuff..i just want thinner tihghs.

First off, you are very unlikly to get muscluar thighs. I'm a muscluar guy, and it's hard for me to gain muscle. I've had to work for years with serious heavy weight, always adding weight, at least 4 times a week to add muscle the muscle I have. And I have testosterone and the genetics to help me out ( I have an uncle who used to be able to lift me over my head...and I was 250 lbs at the time!! And he still can control me like a rag doll if he wanted).  Point is, you are not likely to get muscular "man thighs".

But yeah, do what has been already, squats and deadlifts are great lower body exercises, but do upper body as well, it will help your over all fat loss. Do around 8 reps per set, you'll get the most gains that way, don't do those 15-20 reps that seem to be oh so popular with the ladies. Free weight are much better than machines, too, fyi.

And I've got to disagree with houston on one point: anything on the Smith machince is the devil. It forces you into unnatural motions which, at best, keep you from getting the most effective workout, and, at worst, puts an additional strain on your joints that don't do you any good and can hurt you.

Heh smartjock, don't you wish it was that easy to gain muscle? A few weighted squats and BAM muscular legs!

I'm seconding you on the Smith machine. I wish they'd melt the one down at our gym for scrap metal and give us another squat rack.