Outer Thighs: Seated Arabesque Video

Get beautiful legs by adding this outer thigh workout to your exercise regimen. Learn this outer thigh workout using a seated Arabesque from a professional fitness trainer in this video on health and fitness.

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Muscles worked: outer thigh and gluteals
Keep the chest lifted and core strong
Avoid dumping weight into the shoulders
Gluteals remain strong and engaged at all times
Great backside lifter

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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 everybody, I'm Grace Lazenby and welcome to Outer Thigh. Today we're going to do seated Arabesque. I'm going to use some light weights to prop up my upper body. You can use these or you can just keep your hands lightly on the floor. So you're going to come on to that right hip, good, place your hands lightly on the weights. And you're going to take your left leg straight back. Now from here what you're going to do is straighten that leg, okay. So it may not come off the floor too high, but keep it up there and then you're going to give me tiny little presses, up, up. Excellent. Good, now remember, keep your lower abs in, relax your shoulders, upper body nice and tall. Let all of the energy come from your glutes, you're working right into that outer thigh, and lift up. Good, excellent everybody. Press and lift, tiny little muscle group. Good, let's go, eight more, here we go, for eight, seven, now your outer thigh might be burning a little bit by now, but keep going, four more. And three, and two, and relax. Excellent work. Let's take a nice easy stretch, open up all the way through the hips. And relax from here and let's change to the other side, so come on to the left hip, sit yourself up, right leg goes out, and lift, up. Again you can do this exercise even three, four times a week. Okay, 'cause you're not using any weight. Again you're just toning right through the outer thighs, working into those glutes, those hard areas. And lift. And lift. Now you can keep your toe pointed or you can also try this with a relaxed foot. Good, let's go, eight more everybody. Eight, and seven, keep your body nice and lifted, beautiful, four more. And three. And two. And relax, good, let's take another nice stretch for the right side, sit up nice and tall. And release it. I'm Grace Lazenby and that is your outer thigh workout for the day, we'll see you next time.

Outer Thighs: Seated Arabesque Video

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