Hip Blaster Workout – How To Tone And Strengthen Your Hips

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Looking for curves in all the right places? Forget skinny – get the muscles to get the shape that gets you noticed!

When thinking about strengthening your hips, I usually think of them as 4 walls holding up your core: the front, two sides, and the back. It’s important that you train all of these to maximize strength; the thing is that’s also the way to sculpt, tone and tighten the midline curves. Here are 5 of my favorite moves to get you noticed in your swimsuit, your skinny jeans, that new skirt, etc, etc, etc…

Side Lunges

Get away from straight lunges by taking them sideways! Great for the outer stabilizer muscles in your legs

15 to each side

Lunge Walks with Hip Extension

Take lunges to a new level by adding some hip extension with your trailing leg (when you come up from the lunge lift your trailing foot towards the ceiling). That, my friends, is your gluteus maximus.

15 on each leg

Heel Touch –> Hip Hike

One of my favorites for the outside of the hips. Stand sideways on the edge of a stair on your right foot. Slowly lower your body until your left heel touches the ground. Return to a standing position but then raise your left hip up towards the ceiling as high as you can. This counts as one rep.

10 on each leg

Marching Plank

Like planking isn’t tough enough! Add a march to reintroduce those glutes we talked about earlier.

15 marches each leg

Side Plank with Leg Lift

Like side planking isn’t tough enough! To finish things off we’re getting into a side plank then “scissoring” (abducting) your top leg towards the ceiling.

10 times each leg