Tone Your Thighs & Butt With This Weight Lifting Exercise

To get a toned butt & thighs, most women turn to pilates or yoga or some other program that doesn't involve weights

. These types of exercises can help you, but you'll get faster results from lifting weights, not to mention the huge fat burning benefits there are. This one lifting exercise can help strengthen your lower back, hamstrings, and buttocks while helping your body fight fat.

The exercise I'm going to talk about are called Romanian Deadlifts. They are also called straight leg deadlifts, but I don't like to call them that because they give the wrong impression. You should never straighten (and lock) your legs when you're exercising.

Romanian Deadlifts

To do this exercise, you will need a barbell or dumbbells that you can easily lift. As with any weight lifting exercise, you'll want to start out light until you get the form down perfect, then work up in weight to get a better workout.

Standing straight up, hold the weights with straight arms right in front of your thighs (you arms will be loose & hanging). Keep your knees slightly bent through the whole exercise. Bend at the waist until your back is about parallel with the ground.

Throughout this exercise you should keep your back as straight as possible. If you can't tell do it in front of a mirror or have a friend spot you to make sure you have good form. You can hurt your back if you hunch it and try to lift too much weight.

It's a relatively short movement, and you'll find that you can do a lot of weight once you get the form down and practice a few times. You'll feel it mainly in your hamstrings, butt, and lower back.

by: Katie Faulkner

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