It's time to tighten your legs from calves to quads. And you can do it in one workout! Your Best Legs workout.
This workout will hit many muscles in your legs and may even challenge muscles you haven't worked before!
Leg workouts shouldn't scare you. I find that some women don't want to workout their legs because ''it'll make my thighs big'' but then a lot of them ask how they can make their legs smaller. Wellllll, working out your legs can!!
There are many reasons why you shouldn't skip a leg workout. One being that some muscles in your legs are the largest in your body. The larger the muscle you are working, the more calories you are burning. Another being that if strengthen your legs, you'll be able to do more workouts that you may not have been able to do before. And did you know that muscle takes up less room than fat? So yes, you are building muscle but you are burning the fat in your legs.. which will tighten them up!!
So no excuses, try the Your Best Legs workout and see for yourself how working your legs once a week can change your legs for the better!
For best results this workout should be completed twice through, but if you are a beginner going through one round of Your Best Legs is a great start!! Another idea is to combine this workout with one of the other Your Best workouts, like the Your Best Booty workout. If you do combine workouts, make sure you didn't do either of them the day before or plan to work those muscles the next day because they need time to recover. Also, always listen to your body- if your workout seems too tough, either rest for a few minutes or next time set a goal to complete a little more of the workout.
Your Best Legs: (Each group (number 1, 2, 3, & 4) should be completed through with no rest between exercises
Group One: Plie Squats- These are done in turnout which means that your feet are pointing out instead of forward. You are working more of your inner thigh, which can sometimes be a challenge to work. Instead of squatting back like you are sitting in a chair you will squat straight down, being your knees (keeping them behind your toes, of course)
Group Three: Lunges
Group Four: Calf Raises-
For beginners:
If it is still too easy or too difficult.. let me know and I'll give you some more ideas!
Again, don't be afraid to work your legs!! You'll tighten them up in no time giving you, YOUR BEST LEGS.
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. . Be happy and healthy,
This workout will hit many muscles in your legs and may even challenge muscles you haven't worked before!
Leg workouts shouldn't scare you. I find that some women don't want to workout their legs because ''it'll make my thighs big'' but then a lot of them ask how they can make their legs smaller. Wellllll, working out your legs can!!
There are many reasons why you shouldn't skip a leg workout. One being that some muscles in your legs are the largest in your body. The larger the muscle you are working, the more calories you are burning. Another being that if strengthen your legs, you'll be able to do more workouts that you may not have been able to do before. And did you know that muscle takes up less room than fat? So yes, you are building muscle but you are burning the fat in your legs.. which will tighten them up!!
So no excuses, try the Your Best Legs workout and see for yourself how working your legs once a week can change your legs for the better!
For best results this workout should be completed twice through, but if you are a beginner going through one round of Your Best Legs is a great start!! Another idea is to combine this workout with one of the other Your Best workouts, like the Your Best Booty workout. If you do combine workouts, make sure you didn't do either of them the day before or plan to work those muscles the next day because they need time to recover. Also, always listen to your body- if your workout seems too tough, either rest for a few minutes or next time set a goal to complete a little more of the workout.
Your Best Legs: (Each group (number 1, 2, 3, & 4) should be completed through with no rest between exercises
Group One: Plie Squats- These are done in turnout which means that your feet are pointing out instead of forward. You are working more of your inner thigh, which can sometimes be a challenge to work. Instead of squatting back like you are sitting in a chair you will squat straight down, being your knees (keeping them behind your toes, of course)
- 20 Flat (both feet are flat on the ground)
- 15 R raised (your left foot remains flat on the ground and your right foot will be lifted up on the ball of the foot)
- 15 L raised (same as above, just elevate the left foot up onto the ball- everything else about the squat is still the same)
- 20 Flat
- 10 both raised (just like the raised above, but this time with both feet on the balls- If you cannot balance place a chair in front of you or face the wall and place your hands against the wall for balance)
- 50 Pulses (Go about halfway through your squat, stop there, and only move up and down a little bit- do not straighten all the way up)
- 20 Flat (both feet are flat on the ground)
- 20 R deep (Squat deep staying in place with right foot in front)
- 20 L deep (Same as above, with left foot in front)
- 10 L pulses (Squat about halfway through, hold there and pulse 10x)
- 10 R pulses (Same as above, switching to right foot in front)
- 20 R deep (Squat deep staying in place with right foot in front)
Group Three: Lunges
- 15 R step back (starting with both feet next to each other, step back with the right foot into a deep lunge, making 2 90 degree angles with your legs, stepping back to starting point and bringing right knee to chest before stepping back into lunge again)
- 15 L step back (same as above, just step back and raise knee to chest with left leg)
- 10 R lunge leg lefts (basic in place lunge, keeping 2 90 degree angles with legs, squat into lunge and on the way up lift straightened right leg up behind you)
- 10 L lunge leg lifts (Same as above just with left leg)
- 20 lunge switches (Starting in a lunge position, jump and switch legs to bring opposite leg in front)
Group Four: Calf Raises-
- 20 front (with feet slightly less than shoulder width apart facing front)
- 20 turned out (from position above, bring heels closer together, having toes turned out)
- 20 turned in (feels uncomfortable but is working the outside of your calf!.. just turn the toes facing in)
- 20 front (with feet slightly less than shoulder width apart facing front)
For beginners:
- Take out the cardio bursts in between groups and just rest
- Keep the cardio bursts but rest in between exercises when necessary
- Keep a chair out in front of you, and use as support
- Complete curtsy lunges on the balls of feet
- Complete calf raises with weight only in one foot (you can balance the other foot on top of the weighted foot or hold the unused foot up front of you)
- Increase reps
- Increase reps in cardio bursts
- Add hand weights
If it is still too easy or too difficult.. let me know and I'll give you some more ideas!
Again, don't be afraid to work your legs!! You'll tighten them up in no time giving you, YOUR BEST LEGS.
.
. . Be happy and healthy,