The Truth about Toning Up

Are you interested in "toning up" your midsection? Let me take time to post a small definition of the meaning of "muscle tone" as it relates to abdominal muscles.

Without getting too serious in the scientific-y part of muscle anatomy and the chemical reactions that go on within your body to produce "tone" muscles, I will simply give you a lay-man definition so that you understand how and why people get "tone" when they exercise.

Your muscles basically have a process of neurological and chemical changes when they contract (get shorter). This moves your skeleton. When you lift something, this happens.

Muscle tone is basically a point at which your muscles are so use to this process that they retain a certain state of contraction potential.

They are bigger, and more alert to contractions, which give them a more lean appearance. If your body fat percentage is low enough, your muscles are more revealed than if you had low body fat and did not exercise your muscles out.

If you want to "tone up" lose the body fat, and get in the gym and lift some weights!