Leaner Legs and Hips Without the Bulk: Spot Reduction Scored Zero Across 37 Comparisons, and the Exercises That Shape the Hip Are the Loaded Ones You Were Told to Avoid
3 days ago
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"I want leaner legs and hips, not bigger ones" is one of the most common requests a coach hears, and it usually comes with a plan to avoid heavy lifting and do endless high-repetition work instead. The evidence says the plan has the mechanism backwards. What makes a leg look leaner is less fat over the muscle and a firmer, better-developed muscle under it, and neither of those is delivered by the exercises people choose for "toning".
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