The 5 Best Butt Exercises for Women

Almost all women wish for a nicely toned and shapely butt. This is a problematic area though, for most women. Women tend to store extra fat in the butt area, especially during their childbearing years. Later, it can be really hard to get rid of these extra fat stores and firm up this area. This article is going to give you information about the 5 best butt exercises for women.

Squats

Doing squats is one of the most popular butt exercises for women. It is also considered to be the best exercise for the purpose of strengthening and toning the thighs and butt. To do this exercise, stand with your feet slightly turned out and a little farther apart than your shoulder with. Pull back your shoulders and make sure that your back is straight. Take a deep breath and hold it. While looking straight ahead, exhale slowly as you start bending your knees in order to slowly lower yourself as you slightly lean your torso forward. You’ll want to lower yourself until you are at about a 90° angle parallel to the floor. Inhale and then use your heels to push yourself back up to an upright position.

Lunges

Lunges, like squats, are good for toning both the leg muscles and the gluteus muscles (buttocks). In order to do lunges, you will start out by standing with your feet straight and about a shoulder width apart with your hands on your hips. Now you will step one foot forward until the knee is positioned at about a 90° angle. Be careful that the knee does not go past the foot. Use your heels to push off instead of your toes for better balance. When going back to the beginning position you will feel some tension in your back leg, but you will want to keep your concentration on your front leg.

Gluteus kickback

This is a very easy exercise that is very good for the gluteus muscles. To start, you will need to get on your hands and knees and contract your stomach muscles. You will raise one leg back and upward while keeping your head up and keeping your knee bent at about a 90° angle, until your foot is higher than your head. It is best to keep your butt and thighs contracted as you do this.

Hamstring curls

Like the gluteus kickback exercises, hamstring curls are also very simple and easy to do. Again, you will need to get down on all fours. Raise one of your legs back and up to about a 90° angle and then curl it in the direction of your butt. Then you go back to the 90° angle and repeat.

Step-ups 

This, the last in the list of the 5 best butt exercises for women, is probably the easiest of all of the butt exercises, but it is also one of the most effective ones. For this exercise, you will need some kind of stool or platform that you can step up on. The higher this platform is, the better results you will get. A height that falls somewhere between your knee and waist level would be the best. All you have to do in order to perform this exercise is put one of your feet up onto the platform and use the strength of your legs and butt to push your body up to where you are standing on the platform.

So there you have it! The five best butt exercises for women. Incorporate these into your exercise routine, and you’ll start your journey toward having a nicely toned and shapely butt in no time!