With hot temperatures on the rise, many friends are scurrying along their quick-fix regimens to get "toned" for the arrival of swim suit season. Some are even flooding my facebook newsfeed with invites to get my skinny on at an It Works Ultimate Wrap launch party--claiming the detoxification wrap will tighten and "tone" my problem regions. I'm not opposed to shedding a few. However, I must toss my two cents into the first-day-of-summer breeze. All in the name of science, of course."Tone" is a physiological reference to sensory adaptation regarding nerve impulse energy, and it describes the involuntary state of muscles. Every living human has tonic receptors that feed off external stimuli to prevent them from being an immovable heap of muscle and bone tissue.
One can certainly build, define, strengthen, and even change the composition of muscle (increase lean tissue), but any attempt to improve the "tone" of muscle would be impractical and most likely result in uncontrollable spasms/tremors.
For now, I'll pass on the wraps and just don my vintage Supertramp-fashion striped tube socks. They're just as tight, almost as effective...and nearly as logical.
