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working thighs.
Ever since I could remember I've been doing hundreds of repititions on my stomach every night. Recently, I tried adding a little bit of thigh work, and got results in just a few days, but I also lost some of my butt. I've always been happy with that, and I don't want to lose it but I'd also like to keep my thighs in better shape. Does anyone have any workouts that wouldn't make my butt shrink down, but could help my thighs be more muscular, or do the two kind of go hand in hand?
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This often happens when trying to build a specific muscle. Every muscle in your body has a counter muscle. For example, Your Biceps and Triceps. Your body will develop out of proportion if you try to over develop a muscle without working its counter muscle as well. Ever notice how guys that are obsessed with nothing but increasing their chest size and Bench press develop almost a hunch back appearance?
In your case, while trying to develop your thies, work the counter muscles the same work out. You want to do Squats and lunges. A great exercise for the glutes is alternating one legged chair squats.
You will need a solid chair or bench for this exercise. This is to increase the useful range of motion of the exercise, which is important for maximizing it's effects. You will also need to have something solid that you can grab onto. This can be a railing or a door frame or a pole, etc. Place the chair immediately in front of this solid object.
Stand on the chair on one leg facing the solid object and hold onto it at about waist level directly in front of you. Your heel should be close to the back edge of the chair.
Lower your body as far down as you can go into a one-legged squat. Your other leg will drop down below the level of the chair seat behind you. You should feel a great stretch in your glute. Make sure you continue to keep a firm grip on whatever you are holding on to.
Push yourself back up using your glute as much as possible. This is most easily accomplished by focusing on pushing with your heel. Also, you can stick your butt out while pushing back up to really maximize the effect.
(p.s. Only do a few of these at first or you wont be sitting down for a while!)
Good luck!
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hmm..it kind've does go hand in hand, because it's the same area if that makes sense. here's a website-
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what you can do is try testing these out & then seeing what gives you the better results you'd like. if you try different exercises, you'll probably be able to tell which ones you like better.
-hope that helped!♥
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