5 Leg Toning Exercises You Can Do At Home

Want toner legs? Five exercise routines you can do at home

Want toner legs — but don’t have hours of free time to spend at the gym? Tony Beck from Fitness Together joins FOX6 WakeUp with five exercises that target the areas we worry most about. Best of all, you can do this routine at home!


Get you ready for shorts weather. Watch their full video here:

http://fox6now.com/2014/05/29/want-toner-legs-five-exercise-routines-you-can-do-at-home/

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KIM: I’m here with Tony Becker of Fitness Together. We are here with 5 exercises that target the areas we worry about most. Best of all you can do them at home. Thanks for coming in here Tony.

TONY: Absolutely! Thanks for having me, Kim.

KIM: So we all want toner legs, and all of a sudden, shorts weather is here and we realize we aren’t ready.

TONY: Exactly. So, I’ll show you a couple exercises that will get your legs in shape here as well. I see you have your workout clothes. So are you ready to do this?

KIM: Yes, so how do we do this? How do we start?

TONY: The first 2 exercises are going to be plyometric maneuvers. There is going to be some jumping involved.   The key for plyometrics is to be explosive with the movement. The key is to use force. You don’t really need to focus on holding any weights. You are just going to use your body weight as the resistance. The first exercise is going to be a “speedskater”. You are going to start on one leg and slowly go to the opposite side. What you are going to focus on is distance. You are going to try and explode as far as you can. You are pushing off with your left leg and going in a right direction. You push off with your right leg and push yourself to the left.

KIM: I look like a giant grasshopper.

TONY: Exactly! And that is pretty good balance you have Kim! And what you are working there, since it is an explosive movement; you are working your glutes, hamstrings and quads there. So that is good just like that. Perfect. So you can start off a routine like that because it will elevate your heart rate a little bit.

KIM: So when you are doing it, you are supposed to feel it in the upper thigh and feel it in the abs.

TONY: Exactly. Keep you core nice and tight. The goal is to get further and further so you are more explosive.

KIM: How many of those?

TONY: I’d say about 20 each side.

KIM: What’s next?

TONY: Then we are going o go right to this… I got you this tall chair for a little bit of stability. The last leg exercise was a lateral movement. This leg exercise is a linear movement.

KIM: What is this working and toning?

TONY: This is going to be working the same things: quads, hamstrings and glutes, but it is going to be a plyometric movement again, so you are going to be leaving the ground.
So this is going o be a split squat jump. You are going to start in a lunge position, and you are just going to split squat and you are going to explode up and the goal of this one is eventually do it without holding on to stability.

KIM: What if you’ve got bad knees? Is this something that you would do?

TONY: No. Then you would not do the jumping. You would just stay and give it a forward lean and go straight up and straight down, focusing on the isometric movement here. Make sure that your knee does not go over your toe. Hold it right there. Go down as far as you can and then push straight back up and you should feel it in the quads glutes and hamstrings.

KIM: I d! I don’t think I’d be ready for the jump quite yet.  So how many of these?

TONY: Do about 15 each side. Make sure that you are getting each side toned.

KIM: What’s the next exercise?

TONY: The next one is a rear foot elevate. Similar to what you are doing there. You can hold the weights to counterbalance and work the core and the legs. So I am going to hold it in my opposite hand and put my right foot on top of the Bosu.

Put most of the weight on the front leg, holding on to the weight. I am going to go straight down and straight back up. We are going to just work a little more of the stability aspect, which is sometimes forgotten when you do larger muscle exercises like squats.  

KIM: SO what is this ball? The Bosu is going to work on stability. This exercise focuses on smaller stabilizer muscles.

TONY: Try it without the weight. Just go straight down and drive up here. You are going to try and push straight up without putting too much weight on the Bosu.

KIM: Which I am!

TONY: There you go!

KIM: Alright, I feel it! We were going to do 5 exercises, but I think we are going to end it right here. Oh my gosh! Whoa!

TONY: Yes, those are pretty intense exercises, but you are getting a full leg exercise.

KIM: Thanks to Tony Becker from Fitness Together