How to Really Strenghthen and Tone Buttocks and Thighs

How to Really Strenghthen and Tone Buttocks and Thighs

You have finally decided to do something about your excess weight and fat. You either accepted doctors advice or your friends advice. Or maybe you are just sick and tired of not being able to get into your pants anymore?

Whatever plan you have chosen it probably consists of carefully planed calorie intake and cardio workouts because by combining the two your goal was to burn more calories than you take. But after a couple of months of extensive training you are stuck at a certain point and you don't know how to continue. Your main concern are buttocks and thighs. Years of physical inactivity and improper diet have taken its toll and now you suffer because of it. Ramping up the cardio workouts and spending additional hours in the gym on fancy machines did not help either.

Fat around your buttocks, thighs, hips and abdominal area is the first place where you will notice excessive fat because it is the natural area where body stores excess of energy. It's also the last area that will go away when you start trimming yourself and putting yourself through extensive workouts. The problem could be that your current workouts do not explicitly target those areas. Running, walking, treadmill and elliptical machine are a good way to burn calories and lose weight but to really tone your buttocks, hips and thighs you will need to add some resistance training to your workout routine. And by this I mean free weights!

Some classical exercises like squats, lunges and deep knee bends are exercises that explicitly target areas around your butts and thighs. You might have already been doing them but without weights. Each of these exercises can be tweaked slightly to include weights like dumbbells or kettle-bells. Adding resistance to your training helps to build muscles even more than you did with the original workout routine. Building muscles is important to burn fat! Everybody knows this. But you might have avoided weights on purpose because you were afraid that your legs and buttocks will grow even larger than before. This is not the case because with building muscles we actually trim down the body and get better shape. Women especially should not be afraid of getting the muscular look with added resistance. Excessive muscle growth is reserved primarily for men because of hormone testosterone. Women do not have that hormone so the muscles will not grow too big but will rather be contained to keep that feminine and sexy look.

Explosive bursts of power are also a major factor in muscle building. Workouts like jogging and treadmill walking for hours will not build muscles. To really build rock hard muscles around your buttocks and thighs your should consider sprinting. Sprinters definitely have the best butt and thighs muscles. You need to focus on slow bursts of power like sprinting followed by slower but steady movements. You perform the workout like this - gradually increase your running speed over the first 10-20 meters until you reach your maximum speed. Hold that pace for about 20 seconds and slow to the walking speed but don't stop. Repeat that process for 8-10 times.

Low intensity and high duration training will maybe do you good for weight loss in the long term but you will not get that firm and sexy appearance. To really tone your body, especially around the buttocks and thighs area you need to add resistance trainings and high intensity interval trainings to your workout routine.

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