You can do squats with ease to tone your hips. For this, you need a chain and stand with your feet hips to shoulder width apart. Then, squat with your back straight and abs tucked in and the knees behind the toes. Repeating squats for two or three sets is sufficient for hip toning.

Other hip toning exercise is the Step Ups in which you need to stand behind a 10-inch step. Place your right foot on the step and transfer the weight towards the heel and push in the heel to come on the step. Try to use the left leg to balance and then step back down. Repeat this exercise on the other leg. Three sets of this exercise is more than enough.

Walking briskly and biking are other great hip toning exercises that help you to tone your butts.

Want to have those perfect abs and hips? Then, try out the Hip Lift exercise this week. It is a two-in-one exercise for those toned and strong abs and hips. Just add this exercise in your routine and strengthen your rectus abdominis and the oblique.

• Lie on your back with your arms side by side and plans facing the roof.
• Now, raise your legs straight so high towards the ceiling to make it look perpendicular to your torso.
• Then, try to pull your navel towards your spine and lift up your hips to a few inches above the floor.
• Try to stay in this position for a few seconds.
• Now, slowly lower the hips back to the ground.

Repeat this hip lift exercise in two sets of 10 to 12 repetitions. You can do this exercise along with other abs exercises.

1. Lie down on a mat such that you face faces the ground and head parallel to the ceiling i.e. in the reverse position.
2. Now rest your body on the hands and knees keeping your abs tight.
3. Raise your left leg keeping the knee at a 90 degree angle.
4. Don’t bend your back and keep the neck straight.
5. Now lower the back and repeat the above steps.
6. For more intensity you can hold a weight as shown in the figure.