For work your glutes at the pool, you can swim or choose to make exercises specific.
The best exercises to tone your butt are leg kicks and the leg raises.
Follow this article to find out the 5 best exercises to be carried out in pool For shape your butt !
How to strengthen your glutes in water?
The answer is yes. In addition to keeping you in shape, it engages almost all muscle groups. When you make leg kicks, you will mainly work on glutes, thighs and calves.
For accentuate the work of your glutes, we advise you to concentrate only on the movements of your legs. And for this you can use a board or a pull-buoy that you will hold with your arms.
Which swim for beautiful buttocks?
To have beautiful buttocks, the best stroke to practice is breaststroke. Scissor leg movements will work your glutes more than crawl leg kicks, for example.
But that doesn't mean that when you swim crawl you don't strengthen your glutes!
And if in addition to swimming you want further strengthen your glutes, you can also make different water exercises.
5 exercises to do in the pool to tone your butt
1. Kicks with plank
The aim of this exercise is to focus on your legs, hence the use of a board. SO, take a board and hold it out in front of you.
Then you just have to make lengths using your legs. Whether for beats or some undulations.
The movements must from your hips and not from your knees. keep them legs stretched and make wide movements to properly exercise your buttocks.
You can swim from back, of side or face. And to strengthen your butt even better, you can put on fins!
2. Side and Back Leg Raises
Dive into a basin Or you have foot and where the water reaches you roughly up to the waist.
Stand up straight, standing in the swimming pool, THE legs parallel, but a little bent. To be more stable, you can hold on to the edges of the pool.
Raise one leg to the side the highest possible. If, for example, you raise your right leg, your toe should be stretched to the right.
Bring the leg back And perform the same movement, but rearward. Push your leg and do it climb as high as possible.
You can also try a variant of this exercise which consists of make circles with your leg.
Once you have done the movement several times with the same leg, change legs.
3. Leg raises with heel-buttocks
Sit in the same pool as for the previous exercise. Do back to the edge and press yourself against it.
keep them straight legs, parallel And a little bent. Do raise one leg in front of you until you stretch it with your toe almost out of the water.
Then, make a knee flexion For bring your heel up to your butt. Straighten your leg again And bring her back to the ground.
After doing several repetitions for the same leg, move on to the other.
4. Mountain Climber against the pelvis
Hold on facing the edge of the pool and grab it with your hands to hold on to it.
Then, let your body rise almost to the surface. Push your feet back And bring them up to your chest as if you were doing mountain climbers.
Perform this movement one leg after the other to concentrate on execution. It's a bit as if you were go up floors, but being parallel to the pool floor.
5. Scissors with feet together against the pelvis
For this exercise, as for the previous one, stand on the edge of the pool facing you.
Leave your legs almost rise to the surface, stretch them and keep them feet together. Bring your feet at the level of your buttocks keeping them together.
When you bring your feet back, your legs must form a diamond. Afterwards, push your feet back to straighten your legs again.
The movement of this exercise looks a bit like breaststroke scissors, but keeping the feet together.
In conclusion
Strengthening your glutes in water is not complicated! With or without equipment, make leg kicks, of the undulations and leg raises in the swimming pool.
By practicing regularly these exercises, with 2 minimum sessions per week and one good Alimentation, you will see your buttocks will quickly tone up !
Other exercises to try to tone your glutes in the water
Swimming with fins
To work your glutes even more, you can swim with fins. These add resistance, in addition to that of water.
They also force you to concentrate more on your leg movements.
For more information, come read our article on how to swim with fins. 👀
Aquajogging or aquatic jogging
Aquajogging is a water sport that will strengthen lower body muscles, including your glutes.
You reproduce the running movements in water without touching the bottom using a flotation belt.
To find out more about this practice, we invite you to take a look at our article on aqua jogging. 👀
And even more…
And if you want even more ideas for strengthen your muscles in the water you can also watch our article on THE exercises to do in the pool ! 👀
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The aquabike is also a water sport. YOU pedal a bike immersed in a pool. You go work all the muscles of the lower body and your abs.
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