I've been doing these as part of knee therapy, and I read that they are only glute activators. The definition of that seems to be turn on the muscles so that you can then use/build them with more rigorous activity or lunges or squats etc--but does that mean that there are no toning/strengthening benefits to these two? Because the leg/butt toning routines I've seen certainly make use of them. (I will continue to do them as therapy, just a bit disappointed that I may not see any other results.)