Tone Your Thighs With These 5 Exercises

!±8± Tone Your Thighs With These 5 Exercises

Thighs form a very important part of the human body. Thighs are the main controlling units of locomotion. The shape of your thighs greatly determines your walking style, walking speed, etc. Chubby thighs not only reduce your walking speed, they even distort your way of walking. In order to maintain the fitness of the thighs, let us have a look at some of the exercises.

1. Leg Press- For this exercises you need a leg press machine. Sit on it and place your feet at about shoulder distance against the footrest. Point the toes slightly outward and grab the handles or the seat for support. Next bend your knees and try to lower the weights as much as possible without changing the position of your hips. Hold this position for 5 seconds and then bring the weights back to their original position using your heels.

2. Barbell Squats- Place a barbell on the upper part of the shoulder. Firmly grip the bar with your hands and place your feet on a heel raise. Remember to place your feet at shoulder distance. Keeping your back straight and chin up bend your knees thereby lowering your hips so that your thighs are in line with the floor. After reaching the bottom position, use your heels to press the weight up. Ensure that you do not bend your back.

3. Ski Squats- Again, place your feet at shoulder distance and two feet out from the wall. Next lean your back to the wall and bend your knees to a half squat position. After about 10 seconds, lower your knees by 2 inches. Again after 10 seconds, lower the knees by another 2 inches. This completes one cycle. Repeat the cycles around 20 times.

4. Straight Leg Dead-lifts- For this exercise hold a barbell with your hands and feet both at a shoulder distance. Next bend yourself in such a way that your back is straight and parallel with the floor and your eyes are looking straight ahead. Always make your sure that there is no hunch formed with your back. Hold the position for 15 seconds and then come back to the original position.

5. Lying Leg Curls- Place yourself on a leg curl machine with your face down and the back of your ankles tightly locked on the roller pad. Grab onto the handles and curl your legs till the time your hamstring is fully contracted. After 10 seconds, slowly release the weight and bring yourself back to the original position.

Thus, following the above five exercises will strengthen your thighs for sure. But one important thing to note is continuity. Breakage in the exercise regime will not yield any results.