10-Minute Hips Workout

5. Leg Raise

Targets: Outer thighs, glutes, hip flexors

• Get on all fours, weight evenly balanced between your hands and knees.
• Lift your left leg out to the side, keeping knee bent 90 degrees and inner thigh facing the floor.
• Quickly kick your leg diagonally behind you, bringing your heel toward the ceiling.
• Return your left knee to the floor and do 10 times; switch sides.

Originally published in FITNESS magazine, February 2006.

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