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| The Best Inner Thigh Exercises for Toned Firm Thigh Muscles |
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Mike Geary |
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Do you want to know what the best thigh exercise is to get those toned firm thigh muscles?
These days, you can find a lot of ads promoting all of these fancy so-called thigh-toning machines, and thigh squeezers, and inner-thigh blasters, and so on. Trust me when I tell you that in reality you don't need any of these ridiculous "thigh-blasting" machines to strengthen and tone-up your legs and your butt for good.
The best exercises for your thighs come in the form of free-weight or bodyweight exercises. You don't have to look any further than various types of exercises like squats, step-ups, lunges, and deadlifts to get toned and firm thighs that you desire. There are even dozens of variations of these basic workouts that you can pick, so the simple truth is that you are in actuality just wasting your time with all of these extravagant thigh machines and inner-thigh gadgets.
Allow me to give you an example of one of the best thigh exercises you can do. You have probably done some form of lunges before. There's actually about a dozen sorts of variations that you can carry out and they are quite knockouts!
Walking lunges is one of my favorite 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. Experiment on getting yourself an extra distance each time or start carrying weights to increase the resistance. Walking lunges are a real thigh-burning exercise when you do them right!
Here are some helpful hints to keep in mind when you are doing walking lunges:
1) Step far enough forward so that your front shin stays approximately vertical and your front thigh is about parallel to the ground at the bottom of the step
2) The leg that is trailing you 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) Before lunging forward again, pause for a split second at the top of each step.
Now that you understand the basic walking lunge down, here are a couple of ideas for alternatives that change the emphasis just a little bit for working your inner thighs, outer thighs, and butt in a somewhat different manner.
One variant is that you can step at an angle outward on each step forward. Another alternative is that you can step at a slight angle inward on each step forward. This inward stepping walking lunge is somewhat different and is sometimes called a cross-over lunge. It really stretches out the hips and the butt.
Experiment with these lunge variations and see yourself tightening up those thighs in no time flat. Don't bother using those fancy machines. Instead, use these usual bodyweight exercises and some free weights and I tell you, you'll be much better off.
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About the Author
Mike Geary is a Certified Nutrition Specialist; Certified Personal Trainer and Author of the world famous The Truth About Six Pack Abs. If you're interested in discovering the best techniques for getting a flat sexy belly, learn about how to get a six pack fast, how to get abs fast, six pack exercises and many more. |
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