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No Equipment Necessary: Balancing Windmill
Squats are essential in your strength-training tool belt if you want to tone your booty and thighs. Here's a variation that will also challenge your sense of balance and strengthen your core.
This is a four-part exercise.
No Equipment Necessary: Tabletop Lift
Tabletop may look easy (shown in the photo on the left), but once you hold it for a while, you'll feel your thighs, booty, and triceps burning. It's also a great exercise that will open your shoulders and chest. Here's a variation that will strengthen your core and increase flexibility in your lower back and hamstrings.
Lunge Combo: Side Lunge to Curtsy
When I write that Hannah, my trainer at Equinox, is kicking my behind, I mean that she's really working my glutes. No joke. Here is a move she taught me recently; it's highly effective for toning the backside.
Multitasking Move: Balancing Side Leg Lift Squat
I love combo strength-training moves that target more than one part of the body, and I also love quick moves I can throw in throughout my day, even when I'm not at the gym. This balancing booty- and thigh-toning exercise can be done while blow-drying your hair, waiting for the bus, or talking on the phone.
Music: "Oh, Atlanta," by Alison Krauss
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Get Beach-Ready: Tone Your Backside
If you have been working your abs to get ready for bikini season, I am here to remind you not to forget your booty and the backs of your legs. All styles of suits bare your backside, so tone it with these moves after warming up with five to 10 minutes of cardio. Here is the downloadable PDF of this workout, so you can print it and take it to the gym.
Multitasking Move: Side Leg With Shoulder Press
If you don't have a lot of time to work out, strength-training exercises that target more than one area of the body are essential. Here's one that will work your shoulders and your outer thighs.
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Get on the Ball: Plank Booty Leg Lifts
If you're looking to tone up your rear, but you're tired of doing squats, here's a great exercise that targets your booty and the back of your thighs beautifully. Grab an exercise ball and give this a try.
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Multitasking Move: Walking Squats With Bicep Curls and Overhead Press
If toning your tush and thighs is on your mind, then you've got to get busy doing squats. They target your lower body like no other move, and just after a few repetitions you'll start feeling the burn. Here's a variation on the basic squat.
8 Dynamic Booty Exercises
Many of us are aching for shorts and bathing suit weather to hit permanently, but until it does, you still have some time to tone your tush. Check out these eight exercises that target your glutes, and also work your core, thighs, and upper body.
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Strike a Yoga Pose: Intense East
This next pose called Intense East is the fourth pose in Ashtanga Yoga's Primary Series. It strengthens and stretches your shoulders simultaneously, and also works your bum and hamstrings. If you've done the Pilates move called Reverse Plank, then this will be a cinch.
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