If you’re looking for body-weight exercises to strengthen your butt and legs then look no further than your own body-weight to target those powerful posterior muscles.

Let’s check out few exercises

• Donkey Kicks

Donkey kicks, one of the incredible exercise that targets your butt that other compound exercises can miss. They target your gluteus maximus—the largest of your three glutes muscles, and the bulk of your booty. They also work your core and shoulder muscles, since your entire body has to remain stable while your leg lifts.

• Single Leg Lunges

Single leg lunge is a bodyweight exercise that targets your hips, glutes, quads, hamstrings, core, and the hard-to-reach muscles of the inner thigh. Single leg lunge can develop your lower-body strength and endurance including butt and legs, and this exercise is highly effective.

• Bulgarian Split Squat

Bulgarian split squats work the glute muscles as well as the upper leg muscles. The target muscle is the quadriceps with the gluteus maximus, soleus and adductor magnus working to assist. The hamstring, gastrocnemius, gluteus medius and gluteus minimus all act as stabilizers.

• Squat with loop band

The tension of the band increases bodily awareness, creating a mind-muscle connection in those areas. Performing banded squats for reps allows you to strengthen the proper squat form. The band also forces you to open up your hips, which allows you to go deeper into a squat position without rounding your back.

• Hip Extension

Hip extension exercises are important because your hip extensor muscles — the glutes and hamstrings are major movers for your body. Strong glutes are key for pelvic alignment and lower back support. Strong hamstrings help you run, walk, and jump.

• Hydrants With Leg Extension

The fire hydrant is an excellent exercise for strengthening your gluteus maximus. Some variations also work the abdominal muscles, toning and strengthening your core. As the biggest muscle in your pelvis and hip region, your glutes control three major hip movements.

• Barbell Hip Thrust

It is basically an advanced and more effective version of the bridge exercise. Although both help in strengthening the hips, lower back, and thighs, the hip thrust is more challenging as you will do it at an elevation using your body weight or dumbbells, barbells, chains, and bands.

• Step Up

A step-up is a simple body resistance exercise that works muscles in the legs and buttocks. A step-up targets the quadriceps, and hamstrings, here, as well as the gluteal muscles in the buttocks. This is a good general lower body conditioning exercise.

• Barbell Squat

Barbell squats are one of four functional barbell exercises. A stronger squat makes you more efficient at doing these mundane movements. Barbell squats are the only exercise that directly strengthens your posterior chain muscles. These are the hamstrings, glutes, and adductors (groin muscles).

• Hip Hinge

The hip hinge is a movement used in a number of exercises, such as the kettlebell swing, squats, deadlifts, barbell rows, and more. The movement of the hip hinge involves keeping your shins perpendicular to the ground, bending over by swinging at the hips, and keeping your spine aligned.

Legs and butt are composed of many muscles and to add mass to them you need to use a lot of volume, different angles, and a variety of leg exercises to stimulate all the muscles of the legs.Make sure these exercises are performed with proper form.

A bad form will not allow your leg muscles to contract fully and it will lead to stick legs or injury. When training for leg strength, you must make sure you keep your leg workouts simple and focus less on the number of leg exercises and more on the quality of the ones you perform.