The Best P90X Workouts for Women’s Thighs
If you want to get a full-body workout without leaving the comfort of your own home, try P90X. The P90X package comes with 12 DVDs that contain various high-intensity workouts that focus on different major muscle groups. If you are looking to tone your legs and thighs, there are several P90X exercise DVDs that can help you blast overall body fat and specifically help you improve muscle tone in your thighs.
Yoga X
Yoga X is an hour-and-a-half-long DVD that combines stretching, balancing and breathing. The opening sequence includes a variety of traditional yoga poses, but as time passes, the pace of transitions between the postures increases. In addition, you hold postures longer. The exercise builds strength and flexibility and includes a variety of postures including lunges that focus on the thighs. Yoga can strengthen and stretch all the body’s major muscle groups. A 2011 study found that yoga decreases cortisol, a hormone known to increase body fat and muscle loss.
Legs and Back
The legs and back workout is approximately 45 minutes long. To complete it, you will not only need the DVD, but several props, including a chair, pullup bar, dumbbells and a resistance band. This strength-building session engages the muscles in your glutes and thighs using exercises such as squats and lunges. Each exercise is high repetition, requiring 20 to 25 movements per leg. High-repetition exercises are associated with trim, lean muscle rather than a bulkier look.
Kenpo X
Kenpo X is a mixed martial arts exercise DVD. About an hour in length, it mixes cardio endurance exercises with strength training for a full-body workout. Toning through strength training is only half the battle. While you cannot spot reduce fat deposits, women are genetically predisposed to fat collection around the hips and thighs. Cardio burns calories and helps blast overall body fat when a daily calorie deficit is achieved. The jumping jacks, high kicks and running you do in the Kenpo X DVD will elevate your heart rate and burn calories. Since every woman’s body is different, your age and current fitness level will determine exactly how many calories you burn in a Kenpo X session
Plyometrics
Plyometric exercises require a mixture of speed and strength. The plyometric exercise DVD is one hour and includes anaerobic interval exercises and high-intensity interval training, or HIIT. The workout includes exercises that have you moving your body against its own weight, such as jumping and springing, combining the benefits of resistance training with cardio. For the hour in which you’re doing the plyometric exercise, you’re not only burning calories, but you’re also using your leg muscles to develop an overall toned, trim look.
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