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    Saddlebags

    Posts: 7
    edited September 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
    Help! I am only 4 pounds from my goal weight of 125 but I am not happy at all with my outer thighs/saddlebag area. Any tips?

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    • Posts: 1,496 Member
      squats/lunges running ????
    • Posts: 1,134 Member
      lateral movement!
    • Posts: 444 Member
      Try some strength training to build up your muscles and tone your thighs. Squats, lunges, deadlifts and hip raises should help.
    • Posts: 383 Member
      Congrats on your weight loss. Tone, tone, tone. There are DVDs that have 12 - 15 minute lower body workout. Running of course will usually do it. I like to use exercise band and tie one end to a pole, the other end to my ankle and do lateral moves. This helped me on my saddlebags.
    • Posts: 7
      Thank you for all your tips:) At the risk of sounding dumb, can someone explain what lateral moves are?
    • Posts: 383 Member
      Leg lifts that tone outer thighs. Variety is always best so that all muscles are supported.
    • Posts: 1,741 Member
      There is a Pilates workout by Mari Winsor that is perfect for toning and strengthening that area without bulking up. I can't think of the name of it off the top of my head, but I think it was part of her original infomercial set.

      Other then that, I would recommend Firewalkers (stepping side to side with a band tied around your ankles), Fire Hydrants (on all fours and lifting the leg like a dog at a fire hydrant), Donkey Kicks (again on all fours but kicking to the back instead of lifting to the side. You can also do those with the knee bent as if you were trying to touch the bottom of the food to the ceiling.), and the abductor and adductor machines at the gym. Squats, lunges, and deadlifts are all going to work the backside more then the saddlebag area, so do them, but don't focus the majority of your workout on them.
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