To get lean thighs, a person needs an overall weight loss strategy. A slight reduction in calories combined with cardiovascular exercise can help reduce fat. Pilates and yoga exercises can help build long, lean muscle. Genetics can play a role in leg circumference. Becoming fit and healthy can make a positive change in appearance.
Getting lean thighs is a great goal, but it must be achieved first by understanding some exercise basics. Essentially, a person cannot have skinny thighs without getting “skinny” everywhere else. Plastic surgery is the only way to reduce fat in only one area of the body, so people will need to work on an overall weight loss strategy to reduce fat in the thighs. Also, especially in women, this is one of the hard areas to reduce, and even after weight loss, cellulite can remain. Choosing exercises that can help build lean muscle in this area can also help improve the appearance of the thighs.
Although it often sounds very complex, losing weight comes down to the combination of consuming slightly fewer calories than the body needs. It is recommended that people do not severely cut calories as the body can digest food more slowly. On the other hand, a slight reduction of about 300 calories a day from what it would take to maintain your current weight, combined with four to five sessions of cardiovascular exercise lasting between 30 minutes and an hour, will help reduce fat. As the body runs out of calories, it has to start deriving energy from stored fat, and this can mean that fat on the thighs and elsewhere starts to shrink.
As stated, this does not necessarily result in slimmer thighs, and there may still be some residual fat and cellulite or the muscles may not be very toned. This is where extra exercise can help, but the trick is to choose exercises that don’t pack on the muscles. Weight-bearing exercises may increase the circumference of the leg.
Fortunately, there are exercise programs that tend to build long, lean muscle, rather than bulky, compact muscle. Pilates floor classes can be great for this purpose and also help tone other problem areas like the abdomen and hips. Some of the seated yoga exercises are also recommended, and standing ones can be good too, although they are technically a bit weight-bearing. What people should probably avoid are things like barbell squats or leg presses. Any floor exercise with straight legs is preferred.
It can take a while to get slim thighs, and it comes down to consistently good diet and exercise. Even with this, some people tend to thicken their muscles more easily and will have naturally wider legs in circumference. It is not always possible to change this, which is often due in part to genetics.
It can also be difficult to have very thin thighs after a big weight loss. Even with muscle development, the skin may be a bit saggy or cellulite may be evident. What is generally more possible is to make some positive change in appearance by becoming fit and healthy, and such changes can be very satisfying.
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