Tone Your Legs in 7 Days -- Yes, It’s Possible!

Jessica Smith

Your week-long action plan for short-skirt ready legs: Tone them with these easy workouts that exercise your calves, hamstrings, quads, glutes and inner thighs.

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Photo by: Vanessa Rogers Photography
Lower Body Toner #4: Elevator Plie
Muscles worked: hips, thighs, butt
Repetitions: 15

Stand with your feet about three feet apart, toes turned out about 45 degrees, hands on hips. Quickly, bend your knees and lower your hips down to the floor as low as you can, keeping your knees pointing over your toes [as shown in photo A]. Slowly rise up, pausing like an a elevator stopping at each floor, three times on ... more
Photo by: Vanessa Rogers Photography
Lower Body Toner #4: Elevator Plie
Muscles worked: hips, thighs, butt
Repetitions: 15

Stand with your feet about three feet apart, toes turned out about 45 degrees, hands on hips. Quickly, bend your knees and lower your hips down to the floor as low as you can, keeping your knees pointing over your toes [as shown in photo A]. Slowly rise up, pausing like an a elevator stopping at each floor, three times on the way back up (think of lowering on count 1, and then slowly come up counting 2, 3, 4) [as shown in photo B]. That's one rep. less

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