If you are keen on making the lower half of your body your better half, you will need to put in some extra effort.
However before you head off to the gym and spend a few hundred dollars on membership, consider investing in a pair of toning shoes.
Toning shoes offer a much cheaper way to sculpt your legs and buttocks into the svelte, curvaceous figure you have always dreamt of.
Will toning shoes provide a butt crunching workout akin to a lengthy session on the Stairmaster? No.
Will they give you the legs of your dreams in a month? No.
Will they offer incredible comfort, turn all walking into a toning session, correct your posture and ease or prevent pain from troublesome joints? Oh yes! There is, unfortunately, no substitute for the hard work at the gym, however toning shoes are the next best thing.
They will help you to get a much better lower body, and will reduce the time you need to exercise to reach your goals, toning your butt in a third of the time of standard trainers.
They will give you a comprehensive workout throughout the lower body, creating better definition in the calves and hamstrings, with some models helping to tone the abdomen as well.
The low impact exercise gained from toning shoes is the only option for many men and women who suffer from troublesome knees which have taken a battering over the years from high-impact sports.
However muscle toning shoes offer much more than an increased leg workout, with many models helping to adjust the posture of the body to develop a much healthier walking gait.
They ease the stress on the joints in the feet, legs, knees, hips and lower back for pain free walking.
Many models also have much more wide reaching benefits, easing tension in the back and shoulders, improving blood circulation to help reduce varicose vein formation, and even giving a diet a huge boost by increasing fat burning and even boosting cellulite removal.
You would think that with their pain relief properties, the muscle toning benefits and posture correction that these would be the driving factors for many to purchase the shoes, and whilst this is definitely the case, many people choose the shoes purely for the style and comfort they offer.
Although the shoes were designed to tone the legs and buttocks, the shoes are actually amongst the most comfortable on the market.
Soft linings, super soft foam underfoot, seamless designs and lightweight materials all add up to an incredibly comfortable walk, far better than most shoes on the market.
The rapid explosion of styles and designs, most notably from Skechers Tone ups, Skechers Shape ups, FitFlop and the Reebok Easytone, means that toning shoes can actually be a style and comfort choice, rather than purely an exercise option.