The Most Effective Thigh Exercises
Thigh exercises are a great way to target your lower body while still ensuring that you get a challenging workout in. When it comes to slimming your thighs, the name of the game is body fat reduction. In order to reduce your body fat levels and effectively slim your thighs, you need to make sure that you are performing thigh exercises that not only target your lower body, but also help you burn calories and melt fat. While there are a few options that can help you accomplish this goal quickly, your best bet may be to combine thigh exercises with aerobic training for a high intensity high energy workout that’s all but guaranteed to slim your thighs!
Two of the most effective forms of fat burning, thigh slimming exercise are…
- Free weight exercises that incorporate multiple muscle groups
- High intensity aerobics that require you to move your body through space
Each of these styles of thigh slimming exercise requires your body to burn a large amount of calories in a relatively short period of time. When combined with a moderately calorie restricted nutritious balanced diet, the effects of theses thigh exercises alone are immediate and dramatic. By simply incorporating one of these styles of thigh slimming exercise into your everyday life, you will begin to see a difference in the shape of your hips, thighs and buns.
The Power of Combining High Intensity Thigh Exercises
If you really want to turbocharge the progress your making on your lower body workouts, you need to learn how to harness the power of combining multiple thigh exercises with cardiovascular training. This style of lower body training is also know as high intensity interval training.
When you incorporate this style of intense thigh training, your body will burn more calories that either steady state aerobic exercise or free weight workouts alone. Exactly how many more calories your body will burn depends to a large extent on the exact intensity level of your workout, but studies have suggested that your body will burn on average 900% more body fat than traditional thigh slimming workouts alone!
Example High Intensity Interval Thigh Workout
Always begin your lower body workouts with a full body warm up that gets blood pumping through all of the muscles of your body. I suggest a short low intensity 5 minute jog followed by a full body flexibility routine. After you complete your warm-up, it’s time to get on with the thigh exercises.
This interval training workout should be performed without any rest at all between sets. Once you begin, keep working at it until you are finished, then you can rest!
- Start with a 2 minute interval on the treadmill – Jog At a Medium Pace
- Immediately following your 2 minute treadmill interval hop off and perform 15 wall squats.
- Immediately jump back on the treadmill for another 2 minute interval – this time at a brisk pace
- Jump off the treadmill and perform 10 – 15 dumbbell lunges with each leg
- Back to the treadmill for another 2 minute interval
- Jump off the treadmill and perform 15 dumbbell step-ups with each leg
- Hop on the treadmill for another 2 minute interval
If you’ve been training for over a year now and you are in good condition, you may need more of a challenge than this. If this describes you, simply add in 2 sets of each exercise combined with cardio intervals in between!
These basic thigh exercises become even more effective for burning fat ans slimming your thighs when you combine them with intense aerobic intervals. If you’ve been training for awhile now, but your not happy with your progress in the gym, try to add in a few of these high intensity lower body interval workouts to your routine, I guarantee you’ll beg into burn fat faster than you ever thought possible!