“Trouble zones”…You know…those areas we all seem to want to work, but struggle to get to look the way we want.
Areas like…The triceps…”the bra fat”….the glutes…and the inner thighs…to name a few.
And while we know we can’t spot reduce, it doesn’t prevent us from feeling like we’d still really like to work those areas and do all we can to tone and make them look their best.
That is why I wanted to share this Glutes and Inner Thighs “Trouble Zones” Workout.
This workout will activate and strengthen your glutes and inner thighs using a combination of compound and isolation exercises. Not only can it target those “trouble zones” to help your legs look stronger and leaner, BUT it is actually an essential workout if you’ve ever had low back, hip or knee pain.
It is an especially great workout for all of you runners as well!
It will help you build core, glute and inner thigh strength to improve your movement patterns!
While you can’t spot reduce, you can use a combination of compound and isolation moves to really work those areas for the best results possible!
So try this Tone Those Trouble Zones – Glutes And Inner Thigh Workout!
Tone Those Trouble Zones – Glutes And Inner Thigh Workout
WARM UP
Stretch and Roll Out:
Calves
Quads
Groin
Hamstring
Hips/Glutes
Back/Chest
Shoulders/Forearms
WORKOUT
Complete 3-5 rounds of each circuit, resting as needed between rounds. Rest 1-2 minutes between circuits. Focus on adding weight or trying more challenging variations; however, make sure that you use a full range of motion. Don’t add weight at the expense of not completing a full range of motion!
CIRCUIT #1:
20 reps Glute Bridge with Squeeze
6-8 reps per side Cossack Squat
8-12 reps per side Side Plank Bench Lift
CIRCUIT #2:
10 reps per side Side Plank Clams
10-15 reps Sumo Squat
10-15 reps Peek-a-boo
COOL DOWN
Stretch and Roll Out:
Calves
Quads
Groin
Hamstring
Hips/Glutes
Back/Chest
Shoulders/Forearms
NOTES: Modify moves as needed, and add weight to make moves more challenging if you can still work through a full range of motion. This workout should help activate your glutes, strengthen your adductors while also improving your mobility!
For descriptions of each move, see this post 21 Inner Thigh Moves for a video of the moves.
Ready To Strength Your Core And Tone Those Trouble Zones!?!
by Redefining Strength | FHP 041: Dani Almeyda The Co-Owner of Original Strength Joins Us.mp3
ORIGINAL STRENGTH
Dani Almeyda
originalstrength.net
ABOUT:
With more than 10 years in the fitness and health promotion industry, Dani has found her place as a sought after coach and small business owner. With many years of competitive sports behind her, her body was beaten up and she was feeling broken. She opened her eyes to new forms of training outside of her love for volleyball and discovered strength training with a new lens… one that starts where you are and flows with each individual. This brought her into a new world and she helped discover and grow the Original Strength System as well as open the doors of the OS Institute in North Carolina.
Dani is constantly driven with a fierce passion, to make the world a better place through introducing people to movement and hope. She is traveling the world teaching for Original Strength as the only female Master Instructor and currently lives in Fuquay-Varina, NC with her husband, son, daughter, and their dog.
3 KEY POINTS:
1. Lay your ego aside daily.
2. Start where you or your clients are!
3. Keep your one thing, your one thing. Find your passion and what you are good at and rock the crap out of it!
DANI’S FAST FIVE FITNESS FACTS
Q: What’s your favorite exercise?
Farm Work
Q: What exercise do you hate…but love at the same time?
I love and hate social media all at the same time.
And one of the things I hate about it is the fact that so many people are persuaded to do crazy diets because they see some popular fitness competitor looking extra, super lean on Instagram.
Let me tell you one thing here and now….fitness competitor diets are unrealistic and, frankly, generally unhealthy long-term.
They are meant to get people down to extremely unmaintainable low levels of body fat for COMPETITION. They are extreme diets done for a specific reason – to COMPETE.
They aren’t meant to be super healthy OR maintainable long-term.
And most of the people that do them either keep doing them because they do them as part of their JOB or they end up yo-yoing back up and messing up their hormone levels in the process.
Yet all too often when people are trying to lose weight, to get that ELUSIVE 6-pack and look lean, they turn to these fitness competitor diets.
UNREALISTIC, UNMAINTAINABLE DIETS that lead to nothing but yo-yo dieting, starvation, misery and horribleness.
And no…I’m not being overly dramatic.
These images we see often present unrealistic lifestyles. I know. I’ve tried.
I did the extreme diet. I ended up hangry. Super hangry!
And I never…NEVER achieved the leanness I wanted. I ended up skinny. And hungry. And low energy. And every time I would rebound.
They also present ONLY ONE SIDE – ONE PERFECT ANGLE OR VIEW. They are a highlight reel…and that person POSED to get that shot.
And I’m not saying there is anything wrong with that. We all like certain angles of ourselves and tend to take photos from it. I know I do.
Heck, I share with you all my glamour shots from photoshoots. But I now share these because I’ve found a way to MAINTAIN the look I want. To be lean. To have a lifestyle.
But the point is…You can’t base YOUR DIET on some Instagram picture!
GETTING RESULTS ISN’T ABOUT PERFECTION, IT’S ABOUT CONSISTENCY.
And starvation, aka cutting your calories, and deprivation, cutting out all of the foods you love, doesn’t lead to consistency. And often it not only leads to binging but you messing up your metabolism and your hormones so you gain back even more fat each time you rebound.
So stop going for the extreme. Don’t fall for some fitness competitor diet.
Keep things simple and still enjoy the foods you love.
