RIO Fitness Chicago® Exercise & Nutrition Blog

RIO Fitness Chicago® Tip:

Looking to lean & tone the booty & thighs? *You can't reduce a specific area of the body, other than lipo suction,* but keeping it basic with lunges & squats will help you get there.

The key is how you do the lunges/squats. Just doing one set & resting is body building, and the least effective way to get lean & tone (which is what most women want). So for example, do a set of 15 walking lunges holding a moderate weight (2 8lb dumbells) at your sides. Once you've finished the lunges, you need to follow it up with a completely different exercise with no rest in between. So do the set of lunges, then 60sec of jumping jacks or 30sec of side-side pushups. That's how women should resistance train. It's called High Intensity Interval Training.

For inner thigh you can do squats with a really wide legged stance. Again holding a moderate weight at your sides. For outer thigh, your feet need to be completely together and squat holding weights at your side. Then follow the set of squats up with another completely different exercise to get the intensity up.

Do 3sets of each pair of exercises, resting only 60sec in between sets.