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laura35

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cathe or anyone,
I have seen great improvement with the lifting of my butt but cant seem to get the sides of it to tone up and come in. Hopefully this makes sense to you all. Its not on the sides of my thighs it is more on the sides of my butt area. I currently do bootcamp2xweek,spin1xweek and run2days week. I do lunges,squats,leg press, tons of kick your butt stuff in bootcamp and I cant believe I still have this pocket of fat that just sits there and wont budge. My diet isnt the best, and I know this I need to work on but still with all this activity I feel It should change some. any advice I can get would be appreciated since this is the #1 problem area for me . thanks laura
 
Hi Laura,

I would add Kick, Punch & Crunch with Legs and Glutes. Targets the lower body a bit differently and helps to tighten up the muscles. Also, floor work helps a lot! (I hate it, but I do it.) You may also consider variations of cardio just to change things up a bit and help shed that "pocket of fat".

Julie
 
My thighs/butt are really taking shape since I added Kick Max to my regimen. I've been doing it at least once per week for the last 5-6 weeks and I've already gone from relaxed fit jeans to regular fit. I haven't been in regular fit jeans in at least 5 years. The leg sculting exercises at the end of Kick Max seriously work the outside of the butt/thighs.
 
Hi Laura, ditto on the advice above. My pilates & Spinning teacher swears that floor work has done wonders for her (it's called side series in Pilates). It hits the smaller glute muscles. You would not believe the moans & groans when we do the floor work.

The isolation work in the Kick Max drills would target the same muscles but hit the floor too.

Debra
 
thanks to all of you for the advice. I have kick, punch and crunch and have done it only once. I do floor work once in a while. I did the firm floor work tape for about a month and never really saw any changes. I did it twice a week too. so I quit doing it. I will have to get kick max. there are so many other cathe tapes i want and will get eventually. I currently have UBP,LBP,super sets,muscle endurance,KP &C, Where can I get exercises from the pilates side series exercises? thanks again, Laura
 
You want to work the gluteus medius and minimus, which kickboxing side kicks and roundhouse kicks will help (as others have mentioned), as well as side leg raises, side lunges, and lying floor leg raises. While these will help 'tone' the area, if there is a pocket of fat, it's more a question of reducing body fat through a good diet (way of eating for life) and cardio/weight workouts (emphasis on high-rep, lower weight lower body workouts, perhaps 3-4 days per week to almost "overtrain" the lower body) to make sure you are burning more calories than you are ingesting.
 
Laura, I'll have to check longer pilates workouts for a good side series. Because I do mat classes, I haven't been using the longer workouts. AM/PM Pilates (Ana Caban does the PM), has a good, but short side series.

Gym Style Legs has a great floor work section.

The floor work in Karen Voight's Great Weighted Workout is very good but I believe it's rather long. I don't know if it's on DVD. I'd use it more if my copy was on DVD.

I'm not familiar with the newer Firms, but the older workouts had some tough floor work.

Debra
 
Winsor Buns and Thighs is a good pilates inspired lower body routine that is about 20 minutes long but very effective. There is also another Windsor Buns and Thighs workout with the resistance band.

Good luck!
 
I was organizing some papers this past weekend and I came across a Shape magazine exercise workout card. For the exercise, you sit on the ground and your legs are outstretched and about 5-6 inches off the ground. There is a dynaband around your mid thighs. You scissor your legs back and forth. I can't remember the reps. I'd just do it until it burns and then some.

Added this to the other stuff you've already been doing.
 
thank you for you guys help. I have windsor buns and thighs. I have only tried it once. The firm video that I used was an older one with tracie long. I did it twice a week for about a month or so and saw no difference at all. maybe I needed to do it longer but I quit doing it ,got frustrated.
thanks again
 
I did windsor hips/buns video lastnight. wow, i could feel the burn right in the side of my butt. i will be doing these 2xweek and will post the results i get. laura
 
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