{"id":14321,"date":"2026-05-14T08:30:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T08:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/?p=14321"},"modified":"2026-05-14T08:30:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T08:30:31","slug":"why-the-idea-of-toning-is-outdated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/why-the-idea-of-toning-is-outdated\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the idea of toning is outdated in the fitness industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Cathy Spencer-Browning discusses why the idea of \u2018toning\u2019 is outdated and explains why there is no such thing as \u2018toning\u2019 a muscle.<\/h2>\n<p>You\u2019ll have heard clients time and time again say they just want to \u2018tone\u2019 up. But what does this really mean? In this popular video by MOSSA\u2019s Cathy Spencer-Browning, she explains succinctly why we need to rip that page out of the dictionary and change the narrative.<\/p>\n<p>Like what Cathy has to say and want to get your hands on some epic On Demand workouts yourself? Head to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mossaondemand.net\/?rfsn=8967500.debad4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.mossaondemand.net\/?rfsn=8967500.debad4<\/a> to start your free 14-day On Demand trial! It\u2019s the perfect complement to your live workouts and current exercise regime.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Trying to Tone Up? Build Muscle Instead.\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/71OD01xxmcc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Get your 14\u00a0 day free On Demand trial here <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mossaondemand.net\/?rfsn=8967500.debad4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.mossaondemand.net\/?rfsn=8967500.debad4<\/a> t<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cathy Spencer-Browning discusses why the idea of \u2018toning\u2019 is outdated and explains why there is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14325,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,58],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-group-exercise","8":"category-mossa"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14321"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14323,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14321\/revisions\/14323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}