Get Your Legs Ready for Shorts Weather: 2 Tricks

March 23rd, 2012
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Get Your Legs Ready for Shorts Weather: 2 Tricks

We turned to Sharecare.com experts for these smart ways to shape up your legs for shorts season.

1. Squats
Here’s a quick way to tone up: a twist on the basic squat—the single-leg version. Follow along as it’s demonstrated here by NASM Elite Trainer Melissa Hatton.

2. Walking lunges
NASM Elite Trainer Laura Marthaler loves this move for leg toning. The proper form is very important in the walking lunge, Marthaler says. “Make sure your front knee doesn’t go too far forward while you’re bending that knee. It should not go farther forward than the toes of that foot.”

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Cathy Poley is a Senior Web Producer at Sharecare. She has managed web and video projects for companies such as Primedia, CNN.com and Turner Broadcasting. Not only is Cathy a Sharecare employee, but she is also an avid Sharecare user, finding that the Q&As she reads inspire her to make better decisions about her health.

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