How to Tone Your Whole Body- 13 Exercises + Tips

Whenever we see any fit actress on screen, we always feel how amazingly toned their body is, Well, toning your whole body requires a lot of hard work. Exercising 5 days a week, without missing it, eating healthy food and having a proper lifestyle. You need to do all these things to get your body in shape. To be frank, I don’t feel like getting up early in the morning and working out. But believe me whenever I does, I feel so relieved as it takes out my mental stress and I feel great that I have done something for my body. Now, the question arises how to tone your whole body? Well, to tone your body there is a set of workout which you can do.

Exercising daily in the morning, helps to burn your calories and fat, provides you with more energy, better health and great motivation. So following are the 11 exercises which if you do daily, you will notice a great change in your body. You can mix and match the exercises according to your comfort.

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13 Ways to Tone Your Whole Body

1. Lunges-

We all know how beneficial lunges are for body. It helps to increase the strength of the legs and gluteus. Lunges is one great exercise to tone your whole body especially legs, butts and core. It helps to improve the shape of the body and your posture as well.

How to do them-

• Stand comfortably on both your legs on the yoga mat.
• Bring your left leg forward, in 90-degree angle.
• Your right leg to be back and straight.
• Hands on either side of your stomach.
• Stay in the position for few seconds, then return back to initial position.
• Perform the same with other leg.

2. Push-ups-

Push-ups helps in the workout of your whole body. Doing three sets of it daily will really make a change in your body. Many people think that push ups helps to strengthen your upper body and is necessary for triceps, and shoulders. But Push-ups also strengthen your lower back and core muscles.

How to do them-

• Begin with a normal push-up position
• Hands on the grounds wider than shoulders
• You should form a straight line from top of head to buttocks
• Bend your elbow at a 90-degree angle and let your body come down
• Whole body weight will be on your wrists.
• Do three sets of it, daily.

3. Bending Windmill Stretch-

The windmill is an exercise or a movement that has the ability to stretch certain muscles in the body. It also helps to increase shoulder, core strength and glute.

How to perform:

• Stand comfortably on the yoga mat with your legs hip width apart
• Now with your right hand, touch your left leg thumb
• Doing the above process your left hand will be up in the air
• Then with your left hand touch right leg thumb
• Now, your right hand will be up in the air.

4. Squats-

One of the simplest and effective exercise you can do, to tone up your whole body, strengthen your core muscle, crush calories and boost the immunity in the body. Squats increases the flexibility of your legs and hips.

How to perform:

• Stand with your legs little apart
• Bend your knee as if you are going to sit in a chair
• Your back should be straight and your hands in the front
• Legs will be making a 90-degree angle
• Stay in the position for few seconds

5. 180 Jump-

So, as the name suggest 180 Jump, it means jumping and turning at 180 degrees. This is a plyometric move which engages the whole body and your core muscles. 180 jump builds up the strength, speed and also increases the aerobic fitness.

How to perform:

• Stand comfortably on the yoga mat
• Jump up and turn 180 degree
• Now you are facing the other side where your back was first
• Repeat the process 5 times.

6. Sit-ups-

Many of you might have done this exercise as a punishment in childhood. Now, since you have grown up the exercise form has changed a bit. It is one of the convenient exercise to develop the abdominal muscles. It is the basic yet effective form of exercise.

How to perform:

• Lie down on your back.
• Bend your legs from knee making a 90-dergree angel
• Your hands placed behind your ears.
• Try to come in a sit up position
• While doing this, your belly button will be drawn in and there will be a contract in your stomach.
• There are other ways to do this sit-ups- Twisting crunches, Elevated crunches and Abdominal crunches.

7. Abdominal stretch-

Also known downward facing dog, this is one of the best exercise to tone up your whole body and also strengthen it. Doing this pose for 5 minutes will stretch your whole body.

How to perform:

• Stand on all four of your legs and hand.
• Expand the fingers of your hand
• Stretch your legs, pull your body up and face downward
• Your eyes should try to look at your navel.
• Both your hands and legs should be straight.

8. Burpees-

Burpees is a full-body focus workout, which helps to build strength in the muscles. This exercise helps to strengthen your muscles in your legs, abdomen, buttocks, chest and shoulders.

How to perform:

• Stand comfortably with your legs apart
• Sit down on your toe fingers with your hands in front
• Then go to plank position
• Again come back to second position
• Jump up and come back to first position.

9. Plank-

Have you ever done the plank challenge? Well, plank exercise helps to improve body posture, strengthen your core muscles, improves body flexibility and tone up your whole body.

How to perform:

• Lie down on your mat with your stomach down side
• With the help elbow and foot toes try to pull your body up
• Your body should make a straight line.
• Elbow making 90-degree angle.
• Stay in this plank position for one minute.

10. Boat Pose-

Boat pose helps to strengthen the abdominals, hip flexors and spine. It stimulates the kidneys, intestine and relives in digestion.

How to perform:

• Lie down your back
• Bring your leg and your upper body up simultaneously
• Your body will be making a V-pose and your only your hips will be touching the ground.
• You can feel strain in your abdominal.

11. Jumping Jack-

It is said that doing this exercise for 2 minutes a day, will give immense energy for the day. Jumping jack is a full body workout which targets the major muscle groups, strengthen bones and also improve heart health.

How to perform:

• Stand firmly on the mat with both your legs
• Jump up, expand your legs and your hands above your head
• Then again come back to the initial position
• Do this repeatedly for 2 minutes

12. Stay Hydrated-

Keeping yourself properly hydrated is also necessary to tone your whole body. Water helps in the proper working of the organs and also keep the body clean and clear. It flushes out the toxins from the body and also helps to carry oxygen to all parts of the body.

13. Don’t stop eating-

Many people stop eating in order to keep their body in shape. Well, not eating won’t help you to lose weight. It is always eating healthier, so that your body weight does not increase and you can tone your body.

So, above are 13 ways and tips with which you can tone your whole body. Always remember there is no escape from exercise, until and unless you keep your body fit and active it is not possible to tone your body.

What do you do to tone your body?

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