elongate the muscles?

hello, y'all!!!! my first fitness.com thread....anyway, onto my question(s). i have naturally muscular legs and arms. not uber muscular, but muscular. there is some extra fat i would like to get rid of on my inner thighs and triceps. and i want to work on lifting and toning my booty, too. i was thinking of walking/jogging/running to help with my thighs. (along with a healthier diet, of course :D) but i have read that when you already have muscular legs, doing the regular exercises that a lot of people use to tone their legs will build up the muscle and make them, dare i say, bulky/bigger. i know that my legs will not look like a pro body builder's if i start jogging or do some squats. but i feel that my quads and calves are big enough and i do not want them to get any bigger. so how would i go about making them a bit more on the slender side?? -if possible....i have heard of "elongating" muscles, but i have no idea if this is a myth or fact! i'm not complaining about having natural muscle without trying, i think it looks great. that is why i do not want to make them any bigger! any suggestions?? and what are the best exercises for my triceps without adding more muscle to the rest of my arms/shoulders?? same for my behind, without building up muscle in my thighs. sorry for the novel. thanks in advance!!!

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Running shouldn't show obvious increases in muscle mass, especially since it's prolonged cardio exercise. It will help to tone the muscles though, and the cardio activity will help in burning any body fat to make muscles show more.

As for what kind of resistance training exercises to do, anything with moderate weight/high reps will help with muscle endurance and toning without promoting too much hypertrophy. A good tricep exercise for you may simply be tricep dips. For glutes, there's a lot of different floor-exercises that isolate them, but one of the weight-training workouts for them would be to loop your foot through a weight-handle and kick out to the side. (Stair-master is also great.)
 
Your muscles will not get "big and bulky" unless you eat in a surplus, no matter the activity.

Try yoga for lengthening and strengthening.
 
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