Outer Thigh: Incline Leg Lift Video

An incline leg lift is an outer thigh exercise that works the gluteus muscles, the external obliques and the outer thighs. Do a set of 25 incline leg lifts to work out the thighs with tips from a gymnast in this video on exercises and training.

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Muscle groups: Outer thigh & gluteals
Perfect exercise for shrinking the hips
Vary reps & sets for cross training
Exercise can be performed 3-4X a week
Stretch the hips when sets are completed

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Mimi Saraiva is a former gymnast for the Brazil national team. Mimi moved to Los Angeles 10 years ago and is now a certified and licensed personal trainer and a trainer for iTRAIN.com. iTRAIN provides more than 275 workouts in its library ranging from treadmill to elliptical, cycling, strength training, and many more.

Hi welcome to Core Training. My name is Joseph and in this segment we are going to do a plank position on the ball with a pike. So grab your swiss ball and put it in the back of the mat. One of the things I do want you to notice is how you place your feet on the ball. Don't go right on the top of the feet, go just a little above the ankle and it will give you more stability. With that being said place your hands shoulder width apart, do this entire exercise always focus on the hands, keeping the hands as flat as possible. With that being said take a nice strong plank position and hold it lifting up through the core, not dropping, keep the hips up as high as your shoulders. Take a full breath in and exhale, lift, those hips up as high as you can pulling from the core and inhale to lower. Exhale, lift, and inhale lower, and again, lift and lower. Two more. Last one, exhale all the way up and pushing into those hands and release it down like push ups, you are going to lower down, chest in front of the hands and push up straight, one, two, three, four, five and let's go on that one more time, inhale the hips up and exhale lower, inhale the hips up and exhale lower, breath, two, and one. One more set of push ups here we go, lower, two, three, inhale, exhale, nice one and release. Now slowly step up the ball, good job everybody. That was a plank position with a pike. My name is Joseph and this is core training.

Outer Thigh: Incline Leg Lift Video

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