Exercises like pelvic thrusts and hip rotations are key to getting a bigger, rounder butt and tighter inner thighs. Learn how to strengthen hip flexors to alleviate back pain and explore movements that can help you eliminate saddlebags.
If you experience lingering back pain following a squat workout, see a physician. Residual soreness remains part of training, and will go away with a proper diet and adequate rest. Sharp pain in your back lets you know that something is wrong -- and it may be something that you did.
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The vertical jump is a test that directly measures power output by seeing how high you can leap in one explosive movement. It is an important assessment for sports such as basketball, volleyball and even football. Getting started on the vertical jump test at a young age helps aspiring athletes track their progress.
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Piriformis syndrome is a condition in which you suffer severe pain starting in the center of your buttocks and, often, radiating down the back of your leg.
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Regularly riding a stationary bicycle offers the same benefits as any cardiovascular exercise. It can help you lose or maintain weight, improve circulation, elevate energy levels and reduce risk for several conditions and diseases.
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The muscles of your butt include the gluteus maximus, gluteus minimus and gluteus medius. As a group, these muscles allow for extension and rotation of your hip joints. They also are engaged when you abduct your hip, which means to lift your leg sideways away from your body.
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The muscles of hip extension, which include the gluteus maximus and the hamstring muscles, are involved in standing, walking, running, jumping, swimming and many other activities.
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Having a higher vertical leap is an asset in nearly every sport. The ability to jump higher will help you catch more passes in football, get more rebounds in basketball, jump above the crowd in soccer for a header and help you make a leaping catch over the outfield fence in baseball.
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Sports, such as basketball, require the ability to jump vertically. Vertical jumping requires powerful contraction and extension of all the leg muscles and the back muscles.
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Hip abduction is when the upper-leg bone, the femur, is moved out to the side and away from the body. Hip abduction exercises are important because they strengthen the muscles that stabilize the femur into the hip joint. To work the hip abductor muscles, perform the hip abduction exercises one to three times a week.
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The hip abductors are located on the outer portion of the hips and they lift your legs away from your mid-line. The abductors, in conjunction with the glutes, support the pelvis.
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While heavy barbell squats are, arguably, the single best way to build dense, hard leg muscles, not everyone has ready access to a gym or weightlifting equipment. Fortunately, generations of military personnel have proven that it’s possible to build muscular legs without the use of weights.
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Performing countless squats and lunges in a group fitness class may not be enough stimulation to produce massive gluteal muscles. While you may not want the monster pecs or thighs of a bodybuilder, you must build big glutes to fill out the back of your jeans and shorts.
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The lower legs are a part of the body often forgotten in strength training, and less popular than calf workouts, is shin strengthening. Your tibialis anterior runs along the front of your lower legs, and strengthening this muscle can make the difference between skinny lower legs and strong, shapely lower legs.
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If your thighs are larger than you’d like, this can be a result of excess body fat or accumulated muscle tissue. Getting trim, slender thighs is a common desire for men and woman alike. Although you can’t spot-target fat in this, or any other, specific area of your body, you can use diet and exercise to get results.
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A high butt, also known as a tight or firm rear end, can be achieved through exercise and possibly diet. While even thin people can have saggy butts, if you are carrying a few extra pounds, you'll first need to eliminate excess fat that covers the muscles in your tush. Then you need to exercise to tone it up.
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Exercise burns calories -- so why does your waistline expand after working out? Exercising also causes hunger and bulks up muscles. Your abdominal muscles are no exception to this rule. Do not stop exercising. Instead, learn how to moderate your eating habits.
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Squatting increases your leg strength and power while burning fat. Like all forms of intense resistance training, the strain of squatting actually increases your bone strength, with no negative effects on growth.
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The gluteal muscles make up the largest muscle group of the body and are one of the most frequently exercised muscle groups of the body, according to Mark Anders of "ACE Fitness Matters."
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Injuries to your thigh and hip muscles can affect not only how you exercise but also simple activities like walking, bending down and overall movement. A torn, strained or damaged tensor fasciae latae muscle can be properly healed and strengthened through directed exercise.
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The buttocks are made up primarily of the gluteus maximus muscles, which are the largest and strongest muscles not only in the butt but also in the entire human body.
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