No such thing as muscle toning

Muscle tone/definition is a function of body fat percentage. You're not going to be well defined if you have a sizable layer of fat over your muscles. Training the muscles underneath the fat layer isn't going to help your definition (aka the spot reduction phenomena).

Furthermore, the exercises that are usually prescribed for "muscular toning" are usually bodyweight exercises or exercises using very light weights. These methods are not going to produce the sacroplasmic hypertrophy needed to improve your physique nor are they going to improve the definition of the trained area (see above comment regarding spot reduction).

Hence, when people talk about toning exercises, it makes me want to unleash a Cro Cop left high kick.

90% of the game is physical, the other half is mental

I can see why fighters are so concerned with being in the correct frame of mind. I travel down to PG to do my MMA, but I'm mentally not there. Result? Ass-kickings in all aspects of the game (striking, submissions, wrestling). And more so than usual.

Lesson learned: don't go if you're not up for it.