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I like the idea of you heavy weights just 'toning' !!! ************************************************* Erik Dombroski AIT to be AUT from 2000, School Of Physiotherapy, Email: [log in to unmask] URL: http://www.ait.ac.nz/depts/physio/ ************************************************** >>> <[log in to unmask]> 11/16/99 05:29pm >>> >Would someone kindly explain exactly what the real difference is between >"toning" and muscle or resistance training? It is nothing more than training >with incidental resistance that produces minimal muscle bulk, is it not? So, >why not call it "light resistance training" then? Of course you are correct, but it just comes down to definition. If the fitness industry wishes to remain within the scientific community , then they need to use the term correctly. If they wish to define 'toning' as perhaps you have alluded to then it becomes relative to them and a problem to us (if we wish to make an issue about it). >Does that mean that I and all of my older lifting colleagues are now simply >doing "toning" exercise? An interesting thought, and really points out that strength training doesn't have a linear relationship. Certainly coming to a set of universally agreed definitions and meanings would make the fitness and scientific community more creditable to the man or woman who just wants to get on down to the gym and 'pump iron.' Cheers %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%