Grace Lazenby is a celebrity trainer and co-founder of iTRAIN.com. Grace has a degree in exercise physiology and she is certified with the Physical Mind Institute. iTRAIN.com is your own "Hollywood personal trainer right in your pocket." Each audio and video workout consists of an elite Hollywood Trainer or World Champion Athlete mixed with original music to satisfy your workout needs. iTRAIN provides more than 275 workouts in its library ranging from treadmill to elliptical, cycling, strength training, and many more.
Hi. I'm Grace Lazenby and welcome to Shapely Legs. Today, I'm going to give you two ballet barre exercises to lift your glutes and shape your legs. We're going to do attitude and arabesque. So, come on to, if you have a ballet barre, fantastic; if not, you can just balance with a chair or a body bar. So, you're going to balance on your right leg. You're going to lift your left leg up and bend your knee and you're going to come in to what's called attitude. Keep your hips nice and stable. You can keep your left hand on your waist or if you want to add a little bit of balance, take it out to the side. From here, all you going to do is lift it up and lower. Now, you want to keep a slight bend in the right leg, and then stabilize your whole body. So your abs are in. Your chest is nice and lifted and open. Squeeze and back and you want to keep the tension in your glutes the whole time. Again, I love this exercise because it works all the smaller muscle groups, which are also getting a little extra work on that right leg. Good. Now, you're going to hold, hold. Now, you're going to straighten the leg. Now, this is called an arabesque. From here, again, you're just going to lift and lower and lift. Now, you can keep these single time or you can also take a little bit up to tempo and press, and press. Good. Excellent! And squeeze, and squeeze. Good. Nice long legs, chest up. Nice. eight. Good! And six, and four, and two, and hold. Beautiful. Slide it on in. Shake your legs out. Let's do the other side. So, even yourself out again, this time balancing your left leg. Good. Legs back into attitude, hold, wrap those hips. Here we go, and lift, and lift. Again, you want to keep your chest open but keep your shoulder really relaxed, and lift, and lower. So, you can do this exercise about two or three times a week. Good. How about four more? Good. Three, two. Good. From here again, extend that right leg and you're going to take it into an arabesque. Slow and controlled, let the energy come from your glutes. Point that toe, nice long legs. Two more. Let's add a little tempo. Here we go, and lift, and lift, and lift, four, three, two, hold. Beautiful work. Take it down, shake it out a little bit, and that was your shapely leg workout for the day. I'm Grace Lazenby. We'll see you next time.
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