Exercises to Tone Your Legs

Wearing skirts or short dresses can be embarrassing if your legs are flabby and un-shapely. Some simple leg-toning exercises can help you get rid of this embarrassment. Moreover, you don’t need any special equipment to perform these exercises.


Calf Raise

1) Stand with your feet together and slowly rise on your toes. Hold, at the top for a while and come back to the original position.

2) Stand straight and take one bent leg behind you, raising it slightly off the ground. Then slowly rise on the other toe. All the weight should be on this leg. Come back to the starting position and reverse the legs now.

Hamstring Exercises

1) Go down on all fours with elbows touching the ground and directly under the shoulders. Keep the right knee bent and raise the right leg in the air till the right thigh is parallel to the floor. Don’t take it higher than hip level. Keep your back straight and abs tucked in. Lower your leg and repeat with the left one.

2) Stand facing a waist-high object, with feet together. Hold the object for support, bend your right knee and try touching your buttocks with the right foot. Stay in the position for a while, and then come back to starting position. Repeat with the left leg.

Exercises to tone Thighs

1) Lie down on your left side, with your elbow touching the ground and your hand supporting your head. Bend the right knee and bring it backwards to touch your chest. Then take the leg forward, still a little higher than your left foot and repeat the motion 10 times. Then turn to the other side and repeat the motion with your left leg.

2) Sit on the floor with legs stretched out in front of you. Place your hand on the floor behind you for support. Raise your right leg slightly and move it to the right side, keeping it stretched out. Then take it over your left leg as far as you can, squeeze your inner-thigh. Slowly, come back to the original position and repeat it with the left leg.

Lunges, squats and step- ups are other extremely effective leg-toning exercises. Take a few minutes off for yourself and get your legs in shape.