Sensational Legs in Only 3 Moves

Intermediate Exercises

• Target: glutes, hamstrings
• Begin on the floor, leaning on forearms and knees, your back flat, abs engaged and head even with spine.
• Place a 5-pound dumbbell in the crease of your right knee.
• Lift right leg, knee bent 90 degrees and foot flexed. Pulse up for 12 counts.
• Switch sides; repeat.

• Target: obliques, inner thighs, glutes, hamstrings
• Stand beside chair with feet hip-width apart, abs engaged.
• Lift right leg to hip level and do 12 side kicks, foot flexed: Lean upper body away from leg movement, kicking out to side, then return to center and lower.
• Switch sides and repeat.

• Target: glutes, quads, hamstrings
• Lunge behind you with your right leg, keeping abs engaged, elbows bent, with arms close to sides and left knee aligned directly over heel.
• Stand up, balancing on left leg (keep knee slightly bent) and rock upper body forward while lifting right leg behind you, foot flexed (like a seesaw).
• Lower your right leg back into a lunge position.
• Do 12 times; switch sides and repeat.