How To Tone Your Muscles

If you're looking to tone muscles, you need to put them under stress. And up under stress, they'll adapt and get more toned, firmer, and stronger. I'm going to show you two different things.

I'm going to show you some bodyweight exercises, and I'm going to show you some kettle bell exercises. Kettle bells come in a variety of colors and different weights. These are used a lot amongst fitness professionals, fighters, and martial artists because they're very versatile; they help you develop power as well as tone.

Actually, they're very good for losing weight as well as building muscle. I'm going to show you a beginner exercise and I'm going to show you a more advanced exercise. Beginner - two arms, quick, all the effort's coming from my hip, pushing forward, back, pushing forward, back, pushing forward.

If you're a beginner, I recommend doing 100 or 150 reps. Get your heart rates up, as you're toning a little bit your legs and upper body, so it's a good toning exercise. Now, if you're more advanced, you can exaggerate the exercise, so you can go lower down and higher up, you can make it quicker, and can make it more complicated.

For example - down, swing, catch, down, swing, catch. It's much more complicated. It's more challenging for most of you.

So, the thing is to assess where you are. If you're already pretty fit, you have to challenge yourself. If you're a complete beginner, any kind of exercise will work.

As you get fitter, fitter and fitter, you have to keep on pushing yourself until it's really like hard work doing the exercise. Every time you change, it should be a challenge. Okay, next, we'll do the press up.

I'll show you the beginner version and the more advanced version. Beginners, hands on the floor, feet out. Go down a little bit, and push up, down a little bit, then push up.

If you're overweight or even for women because women naturally do not have as strong a body as men, that will be quite challenging - just a little movement. Now, if you're stronger than that or fancy more of a challenge or something to work up to, you can do a couple of things. You can make it harder by increasing the range of movement.

Now, if I was only bending a little bit there, if I actually go all the way down, I'm working more of the triceps and more of the chest, which makes it more challenging. So, rather than this, I go all the way down and then all the way up. See my arms, they move much more.

Key principle - the bigger range of movement, the more you're working, like a bicep curl. Doing that is not going to be much, this is quite a lot. Now, if that's quite easy for you, the more advanced version is the hand clap push-up.

The hand clap push-up is pretty much what it sounds like. You do a push-up and you do a hand clap before you land again. Nice and hard, because you need quite a lot of power to generate to push yourself off.

It's much more difficult. Actually, there are a lot more advanced ways of doing that, but for the moment, I think that's a good introduction exercise and a slightly more advanced exercise. So, these are some tips on how to tone your muscles. .