Targets: Butt, inner thighs, and calves

• Stand with feet wider than shoulder-width apart, toes turned out 45 degrees, holding a single dumbbell with both hands in front of hips (or fold arms in front of chest without dumbbell). 
• Lower into plié squat until knees are bent as far as 90 degrees.  You knees should stay behind toes.
• Hold plié squat and lift heels as high as you can off ground for one count. (Make it easier: Lift one heel at a time.)
• Lower heels and rise halfway to standing, then lower.
• Repeat

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This exercise works all the same muscles as a regular squat.  With your arms in a different position it changes your center of gravity so it will have a slightly different feel.

1.  Stand as tall as you can with your feet spread shoulder-width apart, toes pointing forwards (feet parallel). Place your fingers on the back of your head (as if you had just been arrested).
2. Lower your body as far as you can by pushing your hips back and bending your knees. Pause, then slowly push yourself back to the starting position.

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Strengthens: quads, butt, hamstrings, lower back

1: Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart and toes pointed slightly outward.

2: Lower down into the squat position.  (Remember to never let your knees go beyond your toes)

3: Engage your core and jump up explosively.

4: As you land, lower your body back into the squat position to complete one rep. Land as quietly as possible, which requires control.

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1. Hold a pair of dumbbells at your shoulders, standing with your feet hip-width apart. 
2. Push your hips back and lower into a squat, keeping your chest upright and your knees over your toes. 
3. As you push through your heels to return to standing, press the dumbbells overhead. 
4. Lower the weights to return to the starting position.

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1. Stand tall with your feet hip width apart, toes pointed forward (NEVER in toward each other) and your arms down by your side
2. Start to lower your body back as far as you can by pushing your hips back and bending your knees. Put as much body weight as possible into your heels
3. As you are lowering into the squat your arms should raise out in front of you for balance
4. Keep a neutral spine at all times and never let your knees go over your toes
5. The lower body should be parallel with the floor and your chest should be lifted at all times not rounded.
6. Pause then lift back up in a controlled movement to the starting position

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Step 1:Balance on one leg and lift your opposite leg, placing it directly beside the balance leg. 
Step 2: Place your hand that is on the same side as your balance leg onto your hip and hold a dumbbell in your other hand. 
Step 3: Squat on your balance leg, bending at your hip and knee, and reach toward your balance foot with the dumbbell. 
Step 4: Contract your glutes, push through your heel, and stand. 
Step 5: Curl the dumbbell to your chest.
Step 6: Press the dumbbell overhead.
Step 7: Slowly and with control, return to the starting position, and repeat.

Strengthens your butt thighs while engaging your core through balance exercises.

Step 1: Stand with feet hip distance apart, toes pointing forward, and arms bent at sides. 
Step 2: Bend knees and hips into a squat, as if you were sitting in a chair (A), and hold for 3 counts. 
Step 3: As you rise, press right leg back and squeeze glutes (B). Hold for 1 count, then lower. 
Step 4: Repeat with pressing the left leg back.  This completes 1 rep.

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