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8 exercises for a Brazilian butt!

Want a gorgeous, toned bum?

Here are the best exercises for your glutes and thighs.

Donkey kicks

Starting on your hands and knees, keeping your core tight and back flat, raise 1 leg and keeping knee at 90 degrees.

Push that leg as high as you can in the air and lower back down, repeat for 12 reps, then switch legs.Aim for 4 sets of 12 reps.

Adductor squats

WH&F Head Trainer Nikki Fogden-Moore demonstrates adductor squats with single dumbbell.

Start: Feet stance is wider than hip width; keep your back straight and arms locked with the dumbbell in the middle.

Lower your body weight into a squat then hold before your rise back to the start position.

Aim for 10 to 12 reps.

Glute bridges

Reps: 12 reps each exercise

A two-part exercise, starting with glute bridges.Lying on your back with your knees bent and feet flat on the floor, place the weight on your pelvic area.

Keeping your core tight, rise your hips up off the floor and thrust them as high into the air as you can, squeezing your butt at the top. Keep shoulders on the ground.

Lower hips back down, but do not touch butt to the floor. That is one rep.Perform one set of 12 reps, then immediately switch positions for Donkey Kicks.

Kettlebell mountain climbers

How to: Get in push-up position with each hand on a kettlebell, feet hip-distance apart.

Bracing your core and keeping hips down in line with the rest of your body, drive one knee as high as you can in towards your chest.

Return, switch legs and repeat for number of reps.

 

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