Best Exercise for Fat legs and thighs?

[ZZMum]

I know that there is no exercise that can spot reduce fat but I am working out 3 times a week at the gym and it would appear I am able to reduce all the fat from above my waist, leaving me with a new body shape that is beyond pear - I am a triangle...

So what would you recommend - does just running help slim down bottom half - I can not lose any more on top as I am looking like a gaunt prepubescent stuck on the thighs and legs of a hippo..

I am about 1 stone over weight - all of it on thighs so do I need to go a diet first or is there an exercise I could use to specifically work legs and slim them off?

I don't know, you want to avoid building up bulky muscles then I suppose. Can they advise you at the gym?

gym advice turned me from hourglass to triangle so not sure I trust them any more!!

Be very interested to hear as well!

I would talk to the gym

I have similar problem to you. My gym instructor recommended walking on incline ( I don't run ), cross trainer and squats and lunges - lots of squats and lunges.
I am also doing five meals a day and low GI food.
(She seems to think adding a ball or doing then with weights or going to a different area of the gym makes it less boring but they are still sqauts and lunges.... )

OK pagwatch that sounds interesting - and big question is - has it worked?!

a few weeks in and actually yes.

I have lost a few pounds but I am toneing up and it is happening evenly.

But I am hugely pear so I think it will be hard work.

What has the gym advised you to do? Weighted squats, lunges and deadlifts are all fantastic exercises for the lower body. If you are a pear shape then you are pretty much always going to be a pear shape, just a smaller one. I am a pear and by following a functional training programme with lower body exercises like the ones already mentioned and upper body lifts such as bench and shoulder press, cable machines for pull downs, seated row etc and press ups then my shoulders have become far more shapely and broader I suppose and my waist narrower so I appear to be a bit more balanced. My legs and hips are still a size bigger than my top half but much leaner and defined.