You don’t need to go to a gym to get great looking, strong, sculpted legs. All you need is your fabulous self and these 5 body-weight exercises to sculpt some lean, sexy pins.
1. Body-Weight Squats
Don’t underestimate the humble body-weight squat as a great functional exercise for strength and sculpting your legs.
Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart with your toes pointed slightly forward or slightly outward. Engage your core muscles by drawing your belly button towards your spine and keep your chest lifted, by pulling back your shoulders, as you bend your knees and push your butt out, as if you were sitting down carefully. Keep your weight in your heels, then come down until your thighs are as far down as you can get them.
2. Jump Squats
Jump Squats will get the heart pumping and the legs burning in no time at all!
Squat down until your knees are at about a 90 degree angle or lower if you can. Keep your chest up and shoulders pulled back. When you reach the bottom of the squat, powerfully and quickly jump to a straight body position. Lower quickly back down to land in the squat and immediately jump again.
3. Pistol Squats
Pistol Squats are an advanced body-weight exercise; so can be quite difficult to do at first. They are well worth you persevering to master them, as the benefits are strong, lean, shapely legs.
Hold up one leg straight out in front of you and squat down pushing your hips back and sit down as far as you can. Once there lift yourself back up to standing. When you start out doing pistol squats, try holding on to help your balance and then work your way up to not holding on at all and getting down lower.
4. Jump Lunges
Jump lunges are an effective exercise to get the heart pumping and the legs burning and are one of the best exercises to build shapely, sexy legs.
Start in a lunge position with your front leg bent, knee directly over your heel and the back leg bent close to the floor. Centre your weight over both legs and then drive up explosively from your front leg, switching positions in the air and land with the opposite leg forward.
5. Walking lunges
Walking lunges are an excellent exercise to shape and firm those legs and your butt!
Start feet together step one leg forward and without pausing, alternate legs, bringing your opposite leg forward into a lunge position. Keep your upper body tall and shoulders pulled back. Keep alternating legs and moving forward until you run out of room wherever you are, then turn and lunge back.
Incorporate these exercises into your training routine for damn fine looking, strong legs. If you need any help, motivation and instruction check out the Online Gym, we use these exercises in our HIIT workouts plus many more. Check it out..
