Best Thigh Exercises to Burn Fat

If there is one body image anxiety that frustrates women from all four corners of the globe, it is the size of their thighs.

Call it thunder thighs, saddlebags, wobbly thighs or just plain big thighs, body image surveys repeatedly show the same results, that the overwhelming majority of women are unhappy with their thighs – particularly their inner thighs. Some surveys have found that as much as 90% of women are dissatisfied with their thighs.

Apart from the obvious annoyance of having large thighs, they bring an added irritation: cellulite. This orange-peel look on the hips, thighs and butt worsens the more thigh fat you gain. Fat cells grow bigger and once large enough, become noticeable through the skin. To make matters even worse, as women age the skin becomes thinner and less supple such that these large fat cells become even more obvious. Men usually have little to worry about. Although they too can have fat thighs, they do not suffer with cellulite and easily lose weightfrom their thighs with exercise – unlike women.

With so many people, particularly women, seeking to get slimmer inner thighs a large and lucrative market has emerged to sell women the latest magic pill, contraption, cream or exercise that promises to reduce and slim thighs. Unfortunately, much of the information out there is at best inflated and overstated and will, at worst, aggravate the problem – making big thighs bigger. 

THIGH EXERCISES

Inner thigh exercises are incredibly popular, with many under the mistaken belief that by targeting the inner thigh muscles one is able to burn thigh fat, tone legs and achieve firm inner thighs. Exercises that promise to target the thighs to burn inner thigh fat and slim thighs are known as spot reduction. However, exercise physiologists categorically agree that you cannot reduce fat in one specific area by exercising that particular body part only. When you lose body fat, be it from exercise or diet, you generally lose body fat all over and may actually lose fat quicker from the upper – not lower – body. In fact, spot reduction not only fails to slim thighs and inner thighs, but may actually increase the size of your thighs.

Here’s why. Inner thigh exercises target thigh muscles. The burn you’re feeling when working out is from working the muscle – not burning fat. Advocates of spot reduction mistakenly purport that targeting the thigh muscles will burn thigh fat. However, fat and muscle are NOT the same. Targeting your thigh muscles, does exactly that. It targets your thigh muscles and makes them stronger. When your muscles grow stronger doing these exercises they also grow bigger. Thigh specific exercises definitely CANNOT make a muscle smaller. Therefore, most people fail to see the results they expected, get frustrated and give up, especially if the inner thigh exercises not only fails to deliver the promised results but actually produces the opposite effect. Read about the thigh exercises you should be doing to lose weight from thighs.

Most women want inner thighs that do not touch, but wish for thighs that are so slim there is a gap. Unfortunately, not all women can achieve this inner thigh gap (healthily) even with a little body fat in the inner thigh area. Whether or not you can, will depend on the reasons for the size of your thighs.

CHOOSING THE RIGHT THIGH EXERCISES

Understanding what causes big thighs is important in helping you choose the correct thigh exercises that are right for your body and your goals. It is important you choose the right thigh exercises, otherwise you could either end up with the same big thighs or worse with bigger thighs. Therefore, avoid generic thigh exercises and choose thigh exercises tailored to your body. This will ensure you get the results you want. Cardiovascular exercise is the best exercise to slim down thighs. However, if your main goal is to increase the shape of your thighs, then thigh exercises are right choice.

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