Bodyweight Squats For Building And Toning Thigh Muscles And Burning Fat

Bodyweight squats are a great exercise for building and strengthening your thigh muscles. There are so many different variations of squats you can do and the best thing about bodyweight exercises is that you do not need any equipment and can pretty much do them anywhere.

1. Start by placing feet shoulder width apart and holding your arms out in front of you.

2. Proceed to squat down like you are going to sit in a chair. Your upper body will lean forward slightly and your hips will shift backwards while going down.

3. Remember to keep your knees from going out in front of your toes while squatting.

4. Repeat according to your required repetitions. If you want to make the exercise more challenging hold your arms at your sides or behind your head.

By changing the speed that you do the repetitions you can change the intensity of the workout. By going quickly you will soon notice that you get out of breath and this places a greater demand on your cardiovascular system. This in turn creates oxygen deprivation which causes you to breath heavily, increase metabolic rate and burn fat.

By doing the bodyweight squats really slowly you will hit the muscles and start to feel the pump and burning feeling which is usually associated with lifting weights. If you do the exercise super slow you may find that you are only able to do a few reps using this method.

You can experiment with bodyweight squats by changing your foot positions and widening your stance so you hit the muscles on different parts of your thigh muscles.

Bodyweight Exercise Circuit

Try this circuit involving bodyweight exercises including the squat and other great bodyweight exercises. This circuit is designed to promote fat loss and increase fitness levels by placing a demand on your cardiovascular system.

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The bodyweight routine can be used as a standalone workout if you are new to training or as a warm up. To change the intensity you can add more exercises, decrease the rest period or increase the amount of time each exercise is done for.

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