Tone the Jelly: 5 Moves Toward Terrific Thighs

The chilly, Winter weather often makes us gravitate toward warm, creamy comfort foods, and baggy, fuzzy sweaters are an easy way to hide the extra poundage in your midsection. Unfortunately, skinny jeans are all the rage making toned thighs the star attraction of wintry fashion. So step it up and incorporate these moves – from easy to difficult – into your gym routine to keep your inner and outer thigh muscles toned up.

Step-Ups

When completing step-ups, be sure to have weight in your heel to your thigh rather than your calf muscle. Here's a step-by-step explanation of step-ups for even more helpful deets on the move.

  

Seated Sweeping Leg Lift

Seated sweeping leg lifts work your inner and outer thigh muscles as well as the top of your quads, and here's how to do this seated, multitasking move.

 

 

 

Balancing Side Leg Lift Squat

Even if you can't lift your leg to 90 degrees when doing the squat with leg lift, over time your legs will become stronger and more flexible. Watch this video to learn how we like to combine squats with left lifts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Platypus Walks

Holding a medicine ball over your head in a squat position will work your entire body. Here's how to do the platypus walk — you will feel the burn mostly in your quads and buns — but your inner and outer thighs will be working too.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Curtsy Lunge With Biceps Curl

Cameron Diaz loves curtsy lunges and NYC trainer David Kirsch is a fan too — it tones the legs and glutes nicely. Here's how David explains how to master the curtsy lunge with the added bonus of biceps curls


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