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Get Lifted: One Arm Mini-Lunge
Looking for a new move to add to your strength training routine? This one will tone your shoulders (just in time for tank top season), and also work your quads, hamstrings, glutes, and calves and just in time for short and skirt season.
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Multitasking Move: Ab Drag With Booty Lift
Here's a fun and easy way to work your abs and booty anywhere. All you need is a hand towel if you're on a wood or linoleum floor, or a plastic bag if you're on carpet.
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Weekend Workout: Three Tush Toners
Having a firm and toned backside makes you feel confident when wearing skirts, skinny jeans, or baring all in a bikini (for those of you vacationing somewhere warm this Winter). Here are three exercises that will target your booty. Repeat all three exercises for a total of three rounds.
Small Workout Window? Focus On Big Muscles
Chances are, if you have time to sneak in a workout over the holidays, you'll have a small window of time in which to do it. So save time by going big — big muscles, that is.
One way to make the most of quick holiday workouts is by focusing on the big muscle groups, including your chest, back, glutes, and quads.
No Equipment Necessary: Wide Squat Steppers
It's time to get off your tush and work it. These walking wide squats will tone your backside, but will also strengthen your quads just in time for ski season.
Music: "Video" by Indie Arie
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Three Ways to Step It Up
If you want to tone your backside and get your heart rate up while doing it, try step ups. The name pretty much says it all; this move works your legs and glutes while making your heart pump like you're walking up a flight of stairs as you step onto a bench at least a foot off the ground. Here are three levels of this basic yet effective exercise for you to work your way through.
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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