Shaping your body.

[xkatex]

My biggest peeve about my body is my hips/thighs, they never seem to be portortionate to the rest of my body. Now, a couple weeks ago, I started doing exercises to tighten up these areas. I dont really consider myself over weight I just would like to tighten up certain parts of my body.

So to help myself (and anyone else who would find this useful) I thought it would be nice if everyone posted the excersies they do to tighten up/shape ANY part of their body.

1.Butt/Thighs-> lay flat on your back with your knees bent upwards and hands by your sides. Thrust your hips upwards and clench your butt cheeks and thighs. Now I do 5 sets of 10 but whatever floats your boat is fine.

2.Stomach-> Simple...crunches. 5 sets of 10 everynight.

Anyone have any excerises you do?!? Would love to here any of them. Especially other ones to tighten/enlarge butt muscles, Tighten up chest area/arm area. Anything would be greatly appreciated.

[sera300]

Butt & Legs (does hips and thighs)? Leg press at the gym with about 420 lbs. Keeps them toned, not muscular! Outdoors? Rollerblading or hiking.

All exercises are "weight" related for me due to our weather here. Outdoor fun stuff is icing on the cake! Winter? Skiing!

[Moezzyondown]

Sex will get and keep you in shape but going to the gym or just walking more do things active play sports anything can become a work out.I walk every where now I refuse to drive anywhere under 10 miles away.
This might sound a bit diffrent but it works:
1 Lay on back & put your feet in the air
2 then w/ feet in air raise your hips off the ground
3 then use your arms as a sort of brace for balance so you are on your shoulders
4 Lower legs down curl up to same pose again then roll up again
Do this once a day 5 days a week in 4 reps of 5 doing push ups in between.
I have a really round butt and this keeps it in place and rally helps to make you feel alert and aware of what is around you. Please do not do any of this if you have a bad back.
Good good good luck with your exercise program and sticking to it.
Hizza for XKATEX : )

[lustforlove]

i herd to tone your back muscels and arms if you squat down next to your bed arms resting behind you aginst it and lift yourself up it tones you pritty well, and for your stomache ab crunches are the way to go.

[sera300]

Also if you want to shape your hips and thighs at home w/exercises and no cost; do squats, lunges, and then put yourself in a ballerina position (toes pointed out) and bring your crotch straight down but do not lock-out your legs (knees) back to a straight position to keep the resistance on them. These will target the muscles you want & with each when you come up squeeze the butt! For calf's, get on a step (from a staircase or a step) hold on, place the ball of your foot (the toes) on the edge & lower your calf's to the max stretch then raise up to tippy toes as if you had stilettos on--repeat in sets of 12 for 3 X. This tightens & defines the calf's. To get the outer thighs do side kicks. As Lustforlove suggested "triceps dips" try the edge of the bath tub or a counter top if a bed gives you too much movement. Move your legs outward placing more pressure on the triceps as you get good. To get the biceps? Get a few 8 oz cans of food around the house and begin doing curls with them, work up to the 16 oz ones! Squeeze tight! Chest? do push ups or modified push ups. Crunches "stink" but they work, be sure to do lower and upper abdominal ones and then work the obliques (cross action style crunches). Always be certain you hold "neutral position" to stabilize your spine--tucking your belly button to your spine is neutral so you do not hurt your back and do not put pressure on your neck, keep a chin to the ceiling position. For back strengthening? Do the "flying nun" get on your belly, raise opposite arm and opposite leg and then switch to the other arm & leg--always keep the abdominal muscles tight & do not hyper-extend the neck. Also look at Pilate's exercises at home with out the machines, look at floor/mat styles! It keep the "core" triggered and works the muscles with minimal exertion. It was developed by J. Pilate while in a concentration camp as a way to keep muscles toned, later used by dancers to avoid injury! These are cheap and do work since mainly you are using your body weight!

And plenty of "sexercise"--female superior works miracle's for the legs!!!

[ItalStall]

Try the Sexercise ideas here - we did, they are fun and work!

[sera300]

Here is the book from Oprah last year. The Author engaged in regular sex w/hubby and lost, toned, and looked great. Meanwhile they had fun!
http://www.oprah.com/tows/booksseen/...ccloskey.jhtml

[Brandye]

I do 150 miles a week on a bike and four days of upper body resistance exercise.

[rdan05]

Jogging works well!

[Cook2b]

wow i realy like this one i dont have any excercises to do i jus do ballet thats a real good one tightens up everything!!