Have u ALWAYS got to warm up before doing toning??

What is toning?

Tone different parts, like say your belly doing sit ups to tone that area

You can't tone in that sense, if I'm reading you correctly.

Sticking with your example, if you have belly fat, you'd want to do crunches to 'tighten' up that area.

Am I reading you right?

If so, that's not how it works.

Oh, and I'm not trying to avoid your question... just want to make sure you understand a rather important concept before moving on.

Basically i have the debra stephonsons workout dvd and there is different chapters on there to tone different parts of your body, belly, arms, legs etc, but at the start is a warmup, my question is do i always have to do a warmup before doing the toning chapters, or can i just tone without warmup?

I'd do the warmup.

And I noticed you jumped over that part about toning I posted above. I hope you let that sink in.

Ok thanks is see what u mean, what is the best exercise to tone the lower part of the abdomen?

You seem to be missing my point.

You can't tone specific parts or your body. Getting lean in a particular section of your body is a function of low body fat levels. Resistance training works the muscles. Muscle is not fat and vice versa.

While resistance training certainly serves a purpose, one of them is not to magically rid you of your fat in your problem areas such as tummy.

Sorry im no good with this exercise stuff, All i want to do is get slimmer, lose my weight from my 2 kids i had, and get a nice looking body not horrid saggy skin,so can u please tell me how i can acheive this, at the mo i do swimming, dieting and exercise videos, ive lost over a stone in 4 months so must be doing something right?

What are your stats if you don't mind me asking?

Also, you are falling into a trap that gets a lot of people. Your goal is to lose the fat and look good, yet you are only using the metric of what the scale reads when you step on it to determine your level of success.

What you're missing is the simple fact that losing weight is easy. Losing fat and maintaining muscle is a bit trickier. If you're carrying a ton of fat, this isn't quite a concern. If you aren't overly fat, it's something you really need to focus on.

So again, stats please?

Do u mean my weight? If u do then i am now 11st 8lb i was 13st 4 months ago

Can someone convert this to lbs, I'm too lazy to look it up.

1 stone = 14lbs

11stone = 154lbs + 8lbs

so she weights 162lbs

13 stone = 182lb -where she was

Thanks...

To the OP, do you have access to a gym or weights?