Tone Your Butt, Thighs & Legs

Toning Exercises for Your Butt, Legs, and Thighs! Make your booty one of your best assets. Your backside can be one of the most challenging areas to tone and sculpt, but never fear! trengthening your hips, butt, and thighs will help you perform better in gym and in life. A strong lower body helps ward off injuries and will help you set a new PR come race day. Big butt, small butt, round butt or a flat butt – there are many different shapes for a booty. Many of you know already that with the right exercises, your glutes can be shaped full and round. And yes, it involves more than some brisk walking on the treadmill. For a well-trained bum, heavy strength training is needed. But how do you build that perfect toned butt without growing your legs? The gluteus muscles are used for stretching and rotating your hips. They also help to move your legs away from or toward the center of your body, movements that are also used during leg and glute exercises. Think of squats, lunges and romanian deadlifts, exercises which are known and widely used as butt-shaping exercises. However, what these exercises have in common is that the focus of these exercises is primarily on the quadriceps (the muscle on the front of your thigh) and hamstrings (the muscle at the back of your thigh). By doing these exercises, you do not only stimulate your buttocks to grow, but also your legs. So, what if you don’t want to grow your legs? What exercises can you do to grow your booty without increasing your leg size?