Home fitness equipment: Slim down your hips
It's natural for us women to store fat around our, hips, waist, thighs and bum. Unfortunately this makes it harder to slim down these areas. The best products to choose are the ones that will give you a fat-burning cardiovascular workout (getting your heart pumping and lungs working), like skipping, hula hooping or aerobics.
Best fitness DVD:
The Firm Ultimate Fat Burning Workout with Alison Davis, £4.77, from Amazon Great fat-burning DVD!
This DVD is great for women of all shapes and fitness levels. The low-impact routines are suitable if you have movement difficulties and will help you lose weight all over, especially from your hips, belly and thighs.
Best fitness equipment:
Reebok Step including DVD, £48.75, from dietandfitnessresources.co.uk Recommended by goodtoknow!
A step workout is one of the best all-round cardio exercises you can do for getting fit, toning muscles, and burning fat from your hips, belly and thighs. You can adjust the height to change the intensity of your workout, or use ankle, wrist or hand weights to tone up quicker.
Gaiam Dance Hoop Kits, £19.99, from Amazon Fun and effective!
Get a fun, low-impact, full-body workout with this weighted hula-hoop and fitness DVD. Hula-hooping burns as many calories as running and is great for loosening joints, strengthening tummy muscles, and slimming down hips, bums and thighs.
TANITA CJ688 Calorie Jump, £9.95, from Amazon Cheap and cheerful!
This skipping rope counts the number of jumps and calculates calories burned. Choose skipping to get a good cardio workout and improve breathing, flexibility and co-ordination too. It's a high-impact exercise, so not great if you have mobility problems, but it slims down hips, thighs and you're bum and you could burn 110kcals in 10 minutes!
Everlast Twist Board, £9.99, from Amazon Great value for money!
This is a great piece of fitness equipment for women of all fitness levels. It does wonders for slimming hips and it's really easy to use. Just stand on the board and twist away. It gets your legs, tummy, hips and arms moving, increases blood circulation and help massage internal organs too.
What else would you like to do?
Lose your bingo wings
Perk up your boobs
Flatten your belly
Reduce your bum
Tighten your thighs
Where to next?
The Figure Fixer Workout
By Jennifer Shepherd
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