Trying to lose weight/tone..HELP!

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Hello,

I am a 20 year old female. I am 5'9 and weight 128lbs. I only have 2 problem areas on my body. My upper body is skinny. My stomach is flat...no lovehandles...skinny shoulders/arms. No problems at all with my upperbody. My only 2 problem areas are my inner and outer thighs. My goal is to lose the weight on my thighs and then tone. However, I DO NOT want to make them bulky. What would be the best way to approach that?

My current workout: 4-5 minute treadmill warmup. I use 3 different weight machines for my legs/thighs. One of the machines I use targets my inner thighs...the other my outer thighs and the last one a combination of both. I lift 30-40lbs with 100 reps on each machine. I use to lift 30 but gradually increased it because I was no longer feeling too much of a burn. I then go back on the treadmill for 10-15 min for a speed walk/jog. Go to the gym 3 days a week.

My questions:
Is my workout acceptable for what I'm trying to accomplish?
Am I doing too many reps?

Thanks in advance :)
 
Your workout is horrible, and you do too many reps. You can NOT sopt reduce. When you must reduce body fat, you will loose it wherever your heredity deems you will loose it. Doing 100's of reps on abductor and adductor machines will not reduce your inner and outter thighs, it will probably make your body try to increase fat levels to compensate for the low intensity, long duration movement.

You will get the best results from a total body workout, which will replace fat with muscle on your whole body and reduce your overall measurements, especially in the areas with the most body fat. Pick 8-12 exercises covering all the major muscle groups in the body and perform 2 sets of 12 reps of each with a 60 second rest between sets. Increase the weights when it gets too easy, NOT the reps. This should take about 40 mnutes. Follow that with 20 minutes of running, outside if you can, but on the treadmill if you must. You will not get bulky from this. You most likely don't have enough testosterone to add a lot of muslce mass and it would take many years of hard workouts to add significant muscle mass anyways.

Don't neglect your diet. You can not out exercise a poor diet. Read the stickies on this site for info on diet.
 
A huge part of the problem here is you're not training the upper body.
Like dswithers says, train the entire body, and lower those reps. 100 reps doesn't 'tone'. it just trains you to do more reps (endurance).

and hows the diet? diet is really more important...if you're not eating the right foods, and consuming too much food, you'll NEVER lose an ounce of body fat.
 
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