Having less fat and stronger lower body muscles may give your hips a leaner, more sculpted appearance. Plus, having more muscle and less fat will help you burn calories at a faster pace, making it easier to control your weight.
Once you start losing weight, you can focus on exercises that can help tone the muscles in and around your hips and core.
Read on to learn more about the best ways to drop inches and tone your hip muscles.
When it comes to reducing hip fat, the right diet and exercise may make some difference. However, since it’s difficult to spot-reduce fat in one area of your body, so it’s important to focus on losing overall body fat.
Having less fat and stronger lower body muscles may give your hips a leaner, more sculpted appearance. Plus, having more muscle and less fat will help you burn calories at a faster pace, making it easier to control your weight.
Once you start losing weight, you can focus on exercises that can help tone the muscles in and around your hips and core.
Read on to learn more about the best ways to drop inches and tone your hip muscles.
Exercise and workout options
1. Squats
Squats are a versatile exercise that target many of the muscles in your lower body. You can do squats with just your body weight.
Once you’ve mastered this exercise, you can make it more challenging by holding a dumbbell in each hand, or a kettlebell with both hands, while doing a squat.
To do a squat with good form:
- Stand with your feet a little wider than shoulder-width apart.
- For bodyweight squats, you can put your arms out in front of you for balance.
- Engage your core, keep your back straight, spine tall, and lower yourself until your thighs are parallel with the floor.
- Pause with your knees over, but not beyond, your toes.
- Exhale and stand back up.
- Perform 10 to 15 repetitions.
