[SLWright01]

Just wondering, I'm going on holiday September and I have been gradually losing weight through healthy eating blah blah...

If I do an hour a day on a fitness bike will I tone/lose fat or will I stop to get bulky?

(before anyone gets defensive, I know bulking up isn't easy and requires dedication... I'd just rather have slim legs than muscly )

Thanks!!

[jesse111]

Fitness bike will probably make you lose weight, and tone your lower body.
Gaining weight is generally diet. But the fitness bike doesnt do miracles, if I were you I'd just do 20 mins every hour or two if you wanna tone and lose more weight rather than just an hour.

Frequency>Time

[SLWright01]

yeah, I'm not able to do that, with work etc... I only have an hour or two a night where it's TV on so figure I'd so it then thanks for the input though

[Anon420]

(Original post by SLWright01)
yeah, I'm not able to do that, with work etc... I only have an hour or two a night where it's TV on so figure I'd so it then thanks for the input though

You could join a gym and spend an hour or two there on various machines?

[Todd]

I'm fairly sure that as long as you're not upping your protein intake in an attempt to put on muscle, it will just tone up your legs rather than make them bulky (just to be clear, TONE generallty means makes your muscles a bit tigheter/leaner, and gets rid of fat so they're more visible ) especially if you're a girl, it's way harder for us to build up muscle

[SLWright01]

(Original post by Anon420)
You could join a gym and spend an hour or two there on various machines?

I wanted to do that but all three of my local gym's have minimum of 6 months sign up, which is stupid for me as I only have three months in Cornwall then I move back to university :/

[Anon420]

(Original post by SLWright01)
I wanted to do that but all three of my local gym's have minimum of 6 months sign up, which is stupid for me as I only have three months in Cornwall then I move back to university :/

Ah, yeah.. fair play, my gym is minimum of 6months and then 1month rolling contract.

Any exercise is going to be good, though

[SLWright01]

(Original post by Anon420)
Ah, yeah.. fair play, my gym is minimum of 6months and then 1month rolling contract.

Any exercise is going to be good, though

Yeah, I just want to make sure I can get my bikini on without having the legs of a man haha

[tooosh]

(Original post by Todd)
I'm fairly sure that as long as you're not upping your protein intake in an attempt to put on muscle, it will just tone up your legs rather than make them bulky (just to be clear, TONE generallty means makes your muscles a bit tigheter/leaner, and gets rid of fat so they're more visible ) especially if you're a girl, it's way harder for us to build up muscle

By tigther/leaner you mean bigger. There is no way a muscle gets "tighter" (allowing for silly stuff like reduction in sarcoplasmic content and raise in myofibrillar); it just gets bigger.

Don't worry about size OP. It is completely controlled by diet, your workout only determines whether you put on/lose fat or muscle due to eating more/less calories than maintenance.

tl;dr eat less, use the exercise bike.

[Joe909]

(Original post by SLWright01)
Just wondering, I'm going on holiday September and I have been gradually losing weight through healthy eating blah blah...

If I do an hour a day on a fitness bike will I tone/lose fat or will I stop to get bulky?

(before anyone gets defensive, I know bulking up isn't easy and requires dedication... I'd just rather have slim legs than muscly )

Thanks!!

Now, please don't be offended, this goes for everyone in this thread.

Its this simple.

If you are in a calorie deficit, you will lose weight, regardless of exercise or not.

If you are in a calorie surplus and exercise, the muscles you stimulated will grow.

So for you, you want to stay in a calorie deficit, and exercise on the bike. The overall reduction of body fat will make your legs appear more toned.

To make sure you don't gain any muscle, eat less than 1g of protein per lb of body weight.

GL

[SLWright01]

(Original post by Joe909)
Now, please don't be offended, this goes for everyone in this thread.

Its this simple.

If you are in a calorie deficit, you will lose weight, regardless of exercise or not.

If you are in a calorie surplus and exercise, the muscles you stimulated will grow.

So for you, you want to stay in a calorie deficit, and exercise on the bike. The overall reduction of body fat will make your legs appear more toned.

To make sure you don't gain any muscle, eat less than 1g of protein per lb of body weight.

GL

Yay thanks, that's exactly what I need!

[HFerguson]

If you don't change your diet, cycling will not "tone" anything.

(Original post by Joe909)

If you are in a calorie surplus and exercise, the muscles you stimulated will grow.

GL

So close, yet so far mate. It's not really that simple. The stimulus has to be intense enough to stimulate muscle growth. As the body begins to adapt to a stimulus, a greater stimulus is needed to stimulate further growth. It is incredibly unlikely that aerobic exercise, such as cycling will stimulate muscles to grow at all. If someone was to cycle for an hour everyday and still ate enough to be in caloric surplus, 99% of the weight they gain will be fat.

This is also why cardio will NEVER bulk anyone up, unless it's resistance cardio, like rowing, but that will only provide a stimulus for so long (a few weeks at BEST), and once the body is adapted, it will no longer stimulate muscle growth. Girls have so little testosterone, gaining muscle from doing anything is unlikely, and therefore their fear of it is entirely illogical. (unless they're really hitting the weights hard, and I mean at least 75% RM for reps).

To the OP, if you want to "tone up", and by that I mean get leaner and improve muscle definition and lose the flab, the primary caveat you must appease is CALORIC DEFICIT. Burn more calories than you eat (by increasing expenditure (exercise) or reducing intake (diet) or both). Exercise wise, resistance exercise (machines or weights) is equally as important as cardio. Intensity and consistency of training are key - high intensity interval cardio is the dogs *******s and is way more fun than slow boring cardio. Resistance-exercise wise, free-weights are king. Read the stickies, especially the ones aimed at females.

[Joe909]

(Original post by HFerguson)
If you don't change your diet, cycling will not "tone" anything.




So close, yet so far mate. It's not really that simple. The stimulus has to be intense enough to stimulate muscle growth. As the body begins to adapt to a stimulus, a greater stimulus is needed to stimulate further growth. It is incredibly unlikely that aerobic exercise, such as cycling will stimulate muscles to grow at all. If someone was to cycle for an hour everyday and still ate enough to be in caloric surplus, 99% of the weight they gain will be fat.

This is also why cardio will NEVER bulk anyone up, unless it's resistance cardio, like rowing, but that will only provide a stimulus for so long (a few weeks at BEST), and once the body is adapted, it will no longer stimulate muscle growth. Girls have so little testosterone, gaining muscle from doing anything is unlikely, and therefore their fear of it is entirely illogical. (unless they're really hitting the weights hard, and I mean at least 75% RM for reps).

To the OP, if you want to "tone up", and by that I mean get leaner and improve muscle definition and lose the flab, the primary caveat you must appease is CALORIC DEFICIT. Burn more calories than you eat (by increasing expenditure (exercise) or reducing intake (diet) or both). Exercise wise, resistance exercise (machines or weights) is equally as important as cardio. Intensity and consistency of training are key - high intensity interval cardio is the dogs *******s and is way more fun than slow boring cardio. Resistance-exercise wise, free-weights are king. Read the stickies, especially the ones aimed at females.

That's essentially what I was saying my entire post.

Logic fail ?

[Joe909]

(Original post by HFerguson)
If you don't change your diet, cycling will not "tone" anything.




So close, yet so far mate. It's not really that simple. The stimulus has to be intense enough to stimulate muscle growth. As the body begins to adapt to a stimulus, a greater stimulus is needed to stimulate further growth. It is incredibly unlikely that aerobic exercise, such as cycling will stimulate muscles to grow at all. If someone was to cycle for an hour everyday and still ate enough to be in caloric surplus, 99% of the weight they gain will be fat.

This is also why cardio will NEVER bulk anyone up, unless it's resistance cardio, like rowing, but that will only provide a stimulus for so long (a few weeks at BEST), and once the body is adapted, it will no longer stimulate muscle growth. Girls have so little testosterone, gaining muscle from doing anything is unlikely, and therefore their fear of it is entirely illogical. (unless they're really hitting the weights hard, and I mean at least 75% RM for reps).

To the OP, if you want to "tone up", and by that I mean get leaner and improve muscle definition and lose the flab, the primary caveat you must appease is CALORIC DEFICIT. Burn more calories than you eat (by increasing expenditure (exercise) or reducing intake (diet) or both). Exercise wise, resistance exercise (machines or weights) is equally as important as cardio. Intensity and consistency of training are key - high intensity interval cardio is the dogs *******s and is way more fun than slow boring cardio. Resistance-exercise wise, free-weights are king. Read the stickies, especially the ones aimed at females.

My last post was immature.

If you cycle in the Tour de France in a 500 kcal surplus, eating 1g of protein per pound of body weight... YOU WILL GAIN MUSCLE. It might be tiny, but you will.

I agree with you, its a silly fear of "getting wedge", never going to happen.

[HFerguson]

(Original post by Joe909)
That's essentially what I was saying my entire post.

Logic fail ?

"To make sure you don't gain any muscle, eat less than 1g of protein per lb of body weight."

Did you even read my post? Cycling will not make anyone gain any muscle, let alone women. She should eat as much protein as possible, it's a more satiating nutrient than carbohydrate, so helps reduce hunger, and has a greater TEF. Protein intake is not the difference between gaining muscle and not gaining muscle.

edit: fair play. Guys cyclking the tour de france won't have time to eat 500kcal surplus. If they did, 1% of weight gain might be muscle. Those guys are so well conditioned, that hundreds of miles on a bike is not a big stimulus to them.

[SLWright01]

Thank you everyone, I'm now completely lost as everyone is giving conflicting ideas but thank you none the less :L

[Illidan_Stormrage]

(Original post by SLWright01)
Thank you everyone, I'm now completely lost as everyone is giving conflicting ideas but thank you none the less :L

welcome to the fitness section

[tooosh]

(Original post by SLWright01)
Thank you everyone, I'm now completely lost as everyone is giving conflicting ideas but thank you none the less :L

The underlying principle behind what everyone is telling you (and arguing about) is eat less and do the exercise

[SLWright01]

(Original post by tooosh)
The underlying principle behind what everyone is telling you (and arguing about) is eat less and do the exercise

Yeah I kind of knew that already :L, I was just curious to know if my healthy diet and only doing bike work would cause me to get nice slim legs or defined legs... :L

[bergmanterrie]

If you exercise regularly, it will definitely help you reduce weight. Running in early morning will help you remain fit all day and will also burn some fats out of your body. Also maintaining a proper diet is equally important.