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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
For detailed instructions, continue reading.
Get on the Ball: One-Legged Lift
Looking for an effective way to strengthen your core and quads? Then grab your exercise ball and a dumbbell and give this exercise a whirl. This move is deceptive; it's much harder than it looks, since it really challenges your sense of balance.
Get Lifted: Leaning Camel
In yoga, Camel is a pose that increases flexibility in your spine, and also stretches the muscles in the front of your hips, belly, chest, and shoulders. This challenging variation using a weight will strengthen your quads and abs.
To give it a try, read more
Get on the Ball: Side-Leg Lifts
Using an exercise ball when strength training is a great way to add a little bit more challenge to basic exercises. Since you have to work hard to keep the ball in place, you end up using more muscle groups. This exercise will tone your thighs, especially your inner thighs and also your core.
Multitasking Move: Side Lunge to Leg Lift
I love strength training moves that work different areas of the body at once, and if you feel the same, this multitasking move has your name on it. It'll strengthen your quads, tone your outer thighs and bum, and work your upper body and back. Not only that, but this dynamic move will also get your heart rate up.
Multitasking Move: Resistance Band Flutter Kicks
Looking for a way to strengthen your abs and tone your thighs at the same time? Then you're going to love this fun exercise called resistance band flutter kicks.
The picture above shows the easier version.
Multitasking Move: Wide Squat and Biceps
Squats are one of the best exercises you can do to strengthen and tone your quads and glutes. Here's a variation with your legs wide, and it incorporates a bicep curl to get more bang for your buck.
To learn how to do this exercise read more
Back to Basics: Dumbbell Squats
Not everyone shares my love of squats, but strong quads, hamstrings, glutes, and a lower back are essential if you're looking to run or cycle faster, as well as help prevent sports-related injuries. So going back to the basics, I want to review dumbbell squats. They are easy and effective.
Avoid Runner's Knee
If you are new to running you definitely want to be wary of developing runner's knee, an overuse injury that is twice as likely to occur in women than men. Known in the medical world as patellofemoral pain syndrome (PPFS), runner's knee causes pain in and around the knee cap (or patella). The pain is caused by tracking issues with the knee cap that irritate the bony groove the knee cap actually sits in.
Multitasking Move: Balancing Shoulder Press
Lifting weights while balancing on one leg can make an easy lifting move much more challenging. Balancing will also work your abs and lower back, and will also strengthen the quads of your lifted leg. If this move is too hard to do with your leg straight, just bend your lifted leg instead just as in the Balancing Hammer Curls exercise.
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