Nice Ankles, Have You Been Working Out?
Posted by: Catherine Strawn
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9:40AM, Tuesday July 14th 2009
Celebrity trainer Ramona Braganza has helped Jessica Alba, Halle Berry, Jessica Biel, and Anne Hathaway get hot bodies, and now she wants to help you tone your, um, cankles. The LA-based trainer developed a new workout in collaboration with Gold’s Gym to help “turn cankles back into ankles.”
Braganza battled cankles herself when she was a cheerleader with the LA Raiders. “I knew that if I did not find a way to get rid of my problem area, I might not make it back on the squad,” she told Reuters.
It is horrible to be judged based on the part of the body where legs meet feet. But problem area? We thought that, for the most part, some were born with slimmer ankles than others. In fact, the size of your ankle (unless that’s where the fat goes when you gain weight) is what it is. If you really want to do something about the size of your ankles, you could resort to lipo around there, but can flesh and bones be toned?
Besides your ankles, there are a few other body parts we should simply learn to live with as-is: hands, feet, ears, belly buttons, and knees. You can dress them up, apply fancy lotions, or conceal them, but folks, sometimes you need to learn to love what you’ve got. [Reuters]
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bogart4017
wrote on July 14 2009 @ 11:02 am: [report]
Maybe im some kinda freak but cankles always turned me on. Leave them alone.
bumbler
wrote on July 14 2009 @ 11:06 am: [report]
I don’t totally get “cankles.” I guess I can see them on the morbidly obese but when people start saying Katie Holmes or Mischa Barton has cankles I don’t get it. I can see their ankle bones, I see where the calf slims. Do I have cankles? I’ll never be able to tell apparently.
cjmar
wrote on July 14 2009 @ 09:07 pm: [report]
I just have very muscular ankles, which makes em look like canckles. Damn!
julea
wrote on July 15 2009 @ 11:22 am: [report]
I have cankles, but it’s not because they’re excessively fat. I’m german. They are just big. It doesn’t help when I’m on my feel all day at work, but…..
It can’t be helped. I think I’d have to shave off bone to get them to be “normal”. Ladies with normal ankles, you don’t know how good you have it!
codepbeach
wrote on September 25 2009 @ 07:04 am: [report]
We used to call them “piano legs” and Hilary certainly has them! Unfortunately not all “cankles” can be reduced with exercise- so camoflage them and don’t wear “crop pants”!
cymbelene
wrote on September 25 2009 @ 02:52 pm: [report]
this is ridiculous. the way to make your ankles appear smaller is to make you calves more muscular so there is a bigger difference between the two. The reason they are called cankles is the calf and ankle are not defined separately.
So really what this chick has to be doing is working out peoples calves. But if she called it what in fact it actually is, it wouldn’t be the “best new thing” that every woman needs…