Butt Exercises | 6 Minutes To A Tighter Butt

1. Length: 6 minutes / 6 Exercises
2. Equipment: Body weight and mats
3. Type of Workout: Toning the butt
4. Muscles Worked: Butt
5. Fitness Level: Beginner to advanced
6. Impact: Low-impact
7. Workout: A mat will help cushion your body on the floor. These exercises will work your butt muscles to fatigue so rest at least 1-2 days before doing additional butt exercises. Only complete as many exercises as you can, take a break as needed. As you progress, try to finish the entire workout.

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This workout will be performed on your hands and knees the entire time. To start, make sure your hands are directly under your shoulders and your knees directly underneath your hips. Your spine should be nice and neutral and your abs should be pulled in nice and tight.

Lets start with the left leg. Place your left leg out with a slight bend at the joint. Keep your toes pointing down towards the floor. Now exhale and lift your leg up until your thigh is parallel with the floor. Lower your leg until you toe touches the floor. Make sure you are breathing steady through this exercise and please take it at your own pace.

Tip: Remember to keep your toe pointed down towards the floor as your heel reaches up towards the ceiling. Your spine should also remain in a nice neutral position and keep your head facing down.

Perform 12 reps on the left leg and hold the last rep up for one second. From this position, with small movements, continue to lift your leg up reaching your heel towards the ceiling for 8 reps. Slowly lower your left leg to the floor and move quickly over to the right leg and perform the same routine.

Tip: With this entire workout stay on your hands, but if your wrists start to bother you or you shoulders start getting tired you can always lower yourself onto your elbows giving your arms and wrists a rest.

Lets start with our left leg first again. Remember to keep your knees aligned with your hips in the starting position. You will remain in this position throughout this exercise. Exhale and lift your leg up with the sole of your sneaker facing the ceiling. Now inhale and lower your leg back to the starting position. You will perform 12 reps of this exercise with your left leg. Hold the last rep up for one full second with your theigh parallel to the floor. From this position, lift your thigh up a little bit higher and perform 8 mini lifts. Quickly switch over to the right leg and perform the same routine.

Tip: Your knee will stay bent at this same angel during entire exercise. Try to lift your thigh until it is parallel with the floor. Go at your own pace and remember to keep your abs tight.

Back in your starting position with your hands and knees on the floor, lift your left leg up (this will look like a dog relieving himself on a fire hydrant), and then exhale and lower your leg back to your starting position. Try and get your whole leg up and parallel to the floor and remember to keep your knee bent at an 90 degree angel. You can drop to your elbow to the mat at any point if you feel a little exhausted. Perform 12 reps of this exercise and hold the last rep up for a full second.

Tip: Hinge from the hip and keep knee bent as you lift your thigh up to the side, bringing leg parallel to the floor.

This exercise will be finished up a little differently. With your left leg still in the up position, kick your leg out and then bring your knee into your shoulder. Do this for 8 slow reps and then 8 fast reps. Try to keep your leg as high (parallel) to the ground as you can take it. Remember to work at your own pace. Make a quick transition over to your right leg and perform this exercise the same way.

Tip: Keep your abs in, hands under shoulders, and leg lifted like in previous exercise. Bring your knee in towards the shoulder, then extend leg in a kicking motion while keeping leg lifted parallel to the floor. Exhale to extend and inhale to bend.

This is a stretching exercise. In your starting position with hands and knees on the floor, push your weight down onto your heels and extend your arms forward. If you want to shake your hips side to side a little bit that is fine. Hold this stretch for 10 to 30 seconds.

Tip: Turn your toes under and shift your body weight back, over your heels. Extend arms forward, relax through your shoulders and neck, and reach through fingertips. Breathe deeply.

Push yourself back onto hands and knees. Slowly lower your hips down towards the floor and slightly extend your legs. Pull your shoulders down and look up towards the ceiling. After holding this stretch for 10 to 30 seconds, bring your body back up to your original starting neutral position.

Congratulations, you are now finished with your butt exercises!

Try to do these butt exercises at least 3 times per week. You WILL see a difference!

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