It’s hard to find an athletic activity that doesn’t involve your thighs. The large muscle groups in your thighs -- the quadriceps and hamstrings -- are primarily responsible for moving your knees. A series of small upper-thigh muscles, including the hip flexors, are involved in numerous hip movements. Perform exercises for all these muscles, large and small, in a simple but complete thigh workout. Even a simple workout requires a good warm-up. Jog in place or take a brisk walk to raise your ...

At first glance, touching your toes doesn’t seem that challenging. After all, babies reach out and grab their feet regularly. Try to perform the task with straight legs, however, and you’ll find out how flexible you are in the core and thigh areas. You can perform toe-touching exercises from a variety of positions. The toe-touching technique you employ determines exactly which parts of your body will benefit. Toe-touching exercises stretch your hamstrings and back muscles. The classic, stand...

Jumping jacks is a calisthenics workout where you have to jump up widen your leg, either hands up or in a clapping position return back and repeat. Sounds pretty cinch right? But the rigorous calisthenic moves do beget your muscles to endure high pain and contraction, because summer bodies are always build in the winter. There are numerous benefits of doing jumping jacks. The jumping jacks exercise may sounds easy breezy, but it is important to do it in the right way to boost up your health in t...

Exercising is very important if you want to have a healthy body. Push ups are an excellent way to strengthen the muscles in your arms, shoulders, and chest, but Standard Push Ups off the floor are too difficult/strenuous for many people. Wall pushups are the first step required for complete mastery of the pushup family of movements. This technique represents the easiest version of the pushup. Using the wall instead of the floor makes it easier to lower and lift yourself, allowing you to build mu...

Stand with your feet just outside shoulder-width apart, toes turned slightly out. Squat down with your weight in your heels, proud chest, knees tracking over toes, and a neutral spine. When you hit the bottom of your squat, squeeze your butt tight and drive hard through your legs and heels as you launch straight up, pelvis forward, pushing off your toes at the last moment of contact with the floor. Land softly, then use the momentum from landing to go right into your next squat. That's one rep. ...

Before trying Walking Lunges, you need to master the Split Squat and Forward Lunge. The Split Squat keeps you in one steady position, while the Forward Lunge begins to incorporate movement. Walking Lunge progresses to continuous motion from one leg to the next requiring great balance and stability. The Walking Lunge is not an exercise that trains absolute strength as it makes absolutely no sense to train it heavy for less than five steps. Instead, it is used for strength endurance, hypertrophy, ...