"Love Your Legs" Valentine's Day Workout

10 Inner Thigh Lifts

• Lie on your left side, flat against the floor.Rest your head on your left upper arm.
• Bend your right (top) leg at the knee and cross over in front of left leg. Rest your right arm on your right hip.
• Keep your left leg straight. Using inner thigh muscle (adductor), lift left leg 6 inches off floor. Keep left toe in flexed position (not a pointed position). Exhale (breathe out) as you lift your leg.
• Using resistance with the inner thigh muscle (not gravity), slowly lower your leg. Inhale (breathe in) as you lower your leg.
• Repeat entire sequence on your right side.

20 Skater Lunges

• Perform a reverse lunge with your back leg slightly at an angle.
• Leap to the side and bring the opposite leg behind you, only tapping your toe to the ground.
• Immediately jump back the other direction and continue alternating until you feel the burn.
• Form check: Keep your knees bent and stay as low as possible to really work your quads.

30 Side Lying Scissor Kicks

• Lie on your left side with your legs extended and on top of each other.
• Bend your left arm and place it under your head for support and place your right hand on the floor in front of you.
• Engage your abdominals and glutes and raise your right leg up about 30 degrees and hold it in this position.
• Lift your left leg off the floor and bring it up toward your right leg.
• Pause two seconds and slowly return both legs to the starting position.
• Switch sides.

15 Fire Hydrants

• Place your body on an all-fours position. Elbows should be slightly bent.
• Back should be parallel to the ground, not arched or swayed downward.
• Keeping the kneeling position raise left leg out to the side, parallel to the ground. Maintain for a second and slowly return to the initial position.
• Repeat movement with same leg until set is finished. Repeat the exercise using the right leg.

30 Step Ups

• Stand with dumbbells grasped to sides facing side of bench.
• Place foot of first leg on bench. Stand on bench by extending hip and knee of first leg and place foot of second leg on bench.
• Step down with second leg by flexing hip and knee of first leg.
• Return to original standing position by placing foot of first leg to floor.
• Repeat first step with opposite leg alternating first steps between legs