4 Exercises To Get Long Tonned Legs Like Deepika Padukone

There is nothing like walking into a room when you have powerful and sculpted legs. Here is a great workout to keep your butt lifted, your quads strong and your hamstrings singing with delight.The best way to turn your body into a fat burning machine is to strengthen the largest muscle groups within the body, which are all conveniently found in the legs. With strong legs your metabolism will be running on optimal performance and you can burn fat anywhere, anytime.

* 30 Prisoner Squats

- Place your hands behind your ears and stand with your feet wide, slightly larger than hip width apart.

- Keep your knees behind your toes as you slowly lower your rear towards the ground – stop when you reach a low squat position.

- Then use your upper leg strength to push through your heels and propel yourself upwards to jump, then return back down into squatted position and repeat.

- If this exercise is too easy for you, try wearing a weighted belt for extra resistance.

* 30 Spider Legs

- Get down on the ground into a Downward Dog position with your feet more than hip width apart and your butt high in the air.

- Proceed to slowly raise your left leg up to the sky and then lower the left leg back down as you bend your left knee into the chest and aim to land your left foot beside your right hand.

- Repeat with the right foot, raising your leg up to the sky and then bringing it back down underneath the body to touch the ground beside your left hand. This is one repetition.

- Make sure to breath deeply and keep your upper body strong during the leg swing.

* 1 Minute Skip Rope + 5 Single Leg Dead Lift (Each side)

- After you jump rope for 1 minute, grab a weighted object (watermelons work great) and begin your single leg dead lift.

- Stand on one leg and while you hold the watermelon or weighted object (tight!) start to bend forward. Your lifted leg can stay bent or hold it straight out behind you.

- Try to lightly touch the watermelon or weighted object to the floor, then use your leg strength to lift you back up into one legged standing position.

- Repeat 5 times, jump rope again for 1 minute then switch to the opposite leg lifting side.

* 30 Stationary Frog Jumps

- Start in forward bend pose however, put your hands on the ground (shoulder length apart) and place your feet beside the exterior of each hand. The most important warning for this move is to avoid jumping on your fingers.

- Bend your legs even more then jump them backwards into plank position.

- Once you obtain balance jump back up to wide leg forward bend.

- This is a simple alteration of the age old frog jumps, and jet it is amazing for strength training the leg muscles.