Thigh Exercises

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 at 7:37 pm

Choosing The Best Thigh Exercises for Toning Those Thighs

There are ads everywhere promoting all sorts of fancy thigh toning machines and inner thigh blasters. But when it comes to the top thigh exercises you don’t need any of these hyped up gadgets to tone up you thighs.

The best exercises for the thighs come in the form of free-weight or bodyweight exercises. You really need not look any further than various forms of exercises like squats, lunges, step-ups, and deadlifts to get those sexy tight thighs that you desire.

There are a whole lot of variations of these basic exercises that you can choose from, so the truth is that you are really just spending your time unecessarily using these fancy thigh machines and inner-thigh gadgets.

One of the best thigh exercises that you can do is lunges, which I am sure many of you have done in the past, and there are probably a dozen or more variations of this exercise, and they all do the job remarkably well.

One of the popular variations of lunges are walking lunges. Instead of standing in place and either lunging forward or lunging backward one step and coming back, with walking lunges you keep moving forward on each step for a certain distance and then turn around and come back. To make things more challenging you can increase the distance each time or start carrying dumbbells to increase the resistance. If walking lunges are done correctly they are a real thigh-burning exercise.

Exercise Routines

Here are a couple of tips when doing walking lunges:

1) Make sure you step far enough forward so that your front shin stays near enough vertical and your front thigh is about parallel to the ground at the bottom of the step

2) Your trailing leg should have a bend in the knee at the bottom, but your knee should just come short of touching the ground. Do not touch the back knee to the ground during these exercises.

3) Wait for just a moment at the top of each step before lunging forward again.

After you have managed the basic walking lunge down, let me give you a few other variations that change the emphasis just a little for working the inner thighs, outer thighs, and butt slightly differently.

Another variation of the lunge is to step at an angle outward on each step forward, an yet another is to step at a slight angle inward on each step forward. This inward stepping walking lunge is fairly unique and sometimes called a cross-over lunge. It really stretches out the butt and hips.

I am sure that if you give these lunge variations a try you’ll soon be tightening up those thighs in no time at all. Just give all the overated gadgets a miss and use these simple exercise routines and some free-weights and you’re results will be a whole lot better.

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