How to Tone Inner Thighs

Video Transcript

"I'm Les Whitley. Here today to talk to you a little bit about toning the inner thighs. The first thing I'd like to address is specifically isolating aspects or angles of the muscle, especially the lower body. To tone the inner thigh, we're talking about a muscle that's typically not much bigger than the size of, big around of my finger. The muscle of the inner thighs are primarily responsible for bringing the leg into the midline of the body or adduction, think of adding to the inside. So typically you may see someone lying on their side doing inside leg raises or machine to train that muscle. Again, that muscle, being what it is, is very small. So to over train or train it to make it strong won't take a lot of effort. Overall, typically the response of toning thighs, is to give them more muscular appearance, removing the body fat. That requires physical activity to burn calories, or expend calories, as well as modifying the dietary intake. One exercise for training the overall musculature of the legs, not only the inner thigh but outer thigh, front of the thigh, back of the thigh, as well as the hips, is the squat. The basic squat will begin by addressing the bar, hands even, stepping underneath, balancing the weight across the upper part of the back, lower part of the shoulders. Feet can be arranged in a variety of positions. Toes pointed out will slightly emphasize more the inner aspect of the thigh. This commonly referred to in dancing is a plie squat. Knees will follow the same direction of the toes as you lower yourself down, under good control. Trying to maintain a upright spine position. Toes pointed straight ahead will work more outer aspects of the thighs, but emphasizing specifically the inner. Working on range of motion, toes pointed slightly out, knees following same direction. Good control motion. All the way up; all the way down. Always rack the bar under control. We train the leg as a whole, not emphasizing any one particular part because we're looking for balance, overall shape, as well as muscularity of the leg, while having a nice lean look as well."