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Can you be a runner and still have a rear ?
lizzelspark
Posts: 178 Member
Everyone tells me I need to do more cardio but I don't want a flat one
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That's going to have more to do with genetics and what strength work you do in addition to running.
Strengthening glutes helps running/injury prevention when running, so there's that.3 -
Running made my rear smaller, not flatter.1
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Running made my rear bigger. I didn't have one at all before I started running; my back just slid down into my thighs. Lifting weights has given me a very nice butt indeed.0
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Great so I have to pick one or the other0
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lizzelspark wrote: »Everyone tells me I need to do more cardio but I don't want a flat one
Genetics mostly.3 -
lizzelspark wrote: »Everyone tells me I need to do more cardio but I don't want a flat one
Genetics mostly.
Yep. I have a very ample rear and I run.0 -
VioletRojo wrote: »Running made my rear bigger. I didn't have one at all before I started running; my back just slid down into my thighs. Lifting weights has given me a very nice butt indeed.
Did you do long distance running ?0 -
If you run and also do squats you should have a bangin booty tbh2
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lizzelspark wrote: »Great so I have to pick one or the other
Where do you get this?0 -
When I look at the girls on the treadmill all I see are flat rears0
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lizzelspark wrote: »VioletRojo wrote: »Running made my rear bigger. I didn't have one at all before I started running; my back just slid down into my thighs. Lifting weights has given me a very nice butt indeed.
Did you do long distance running ?
Yes. The shortest distance I run regularly is 6 miles. My area is very hilly though, so my gluts are really working hard.0 -
They probably don't strength train. I don't get why you can't do both. Strength training is extremely beneficial for running.2
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lemurcat12 wrote: »lizzelspark wrote: »Great so I have to pick one or the other
Where do you get this?
I'm thinking my genetics isn't good because as soon as I start doing lots of running it starts to flatten0 -
VioletRojo wrote: »lizzelspark wrote: »VioletRojo wrote: »Running made my rear bigger. I didn't have one at all before I started running; my back just slid down into my thighs. Lifting weights has given me a very nice butt indeed.
Did you do long distance running ?
Yes. The shortest distance I run regularly is 6 miles. My area is very hilly though, so my gluts are really working hard.
I'll try to hit the hills then0 -
I do a lot of cardio, and I do a lot of lifting. Bodyweight and goblet squats are great for making that booty pop.0
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Maybe I need to give it more of a chance0
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gnarlykickflip wrote: »If you run and also do squats you should have a bangin booty tbh
*Nods sagely*
Add some compound leg exercises (squats, dead lifts, lunges) in with your running program and you should be able to maximize your potential.0 -
lizzelspark wrote: »When I look at the girls on the treadmill all I see are flat rears
So pay less attention to the bodies of women on treadmills and pay more attention to your own routine, which should include resistance training for the muscles in your rear.6 -
I'm naturally kinda gifted in the bum department. I'm a natural pear shape, bigger lower stomach, butt and thighs. Running didn't make me lose much of my butt at all, it did reduce the size of my thighs and stomach. But if its something you stress about maybe start some muscle building bum exercises (squats, dead lifts, hip thrusts/bridges, fire hydrants etc)?0
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janejellyroll wrote: »lizzelspark wrote: »When I look at the girls on the treadmill all I see are flat rears
So pay less attention to the bodies of women on treadmills and pay more attention to your own routine, which should include resistance training for the muscles in your rear.
It's hard to not notice that's what scares me away from the treadmills and straight to the squat rack0 -
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lizzelspark wrote: »When I look at the girls on the treadmill all I see are flat rears
Try looking at sprinters.
Actually, don't. It's pointless without knowing how they work beyond the short time sprinting on the track.
If you want to keep or improve your butt, you have to work your butt. Long distance running does this if you've got a good amount of incline. If not, you can add in sprints (assuming you've got the running base for it) or you can add a glute strengthening routine (weights or body weight).
Look up Brett Contreras if you decide to do the weight routine.5 -
I have always had a bad case of "noassatol". Whether I run or not, no *kitten*. If I stop running I can only get a beer gut. So I say yes it's genetics.0
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Can you get the same results from running treadmill at highest incline as running hills ?1
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Strange. I see rears of many kinds at half marathons and full marathons, some seriously great looking ones too. Same as the variations in other areas of physique at these events as well. Yeah, I'm never in front so I see a great many rears. There may have been an occasion or two where people have picked up their pace a bit on a certain stretch just to keep a certain bouncy rear in view. Not that I am saying that is myself, mind you. Maybe treadmills are the problem, and not necessarily running?
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lizzelspark wrote: »janejellyroll wrote: »lizzelspark wrote: »When I look at the girls on the treadmill all I see are flat rears
So pay less attention to the bodies of women on treadmills and pay more attention to your own routine, which should include resistance training for the muscles in your rear.
It's hard to not notice that's what scares me away from the treadmills and straight to the squat rack
I guess I don't have that much to offer you then. . . I am one of those people who minds my own business in the gym. If I want specific results, I research how to get them. I don't assume that I know the diet and routine of people on a specific piece of equipment or that the specific exercise they're going is what gave them the result I may or may not want to accomplish myself.
There are tons of people who do cardio and have rears. If you want to be one, fine. If you want to continue with your assumptions about other women, that's fine too.3 -
lizzelspark wrote: »When I look at the girls on the treadmill all I see are flat rears
Try looking at sprinters.
Actually, don't. It's pointless without knowing how they work beyond the short time sprinting on the track.
If you want to keep or improve your butt, you have to work your butt. Long distance running does this if you've got a good amount of incline. If not, you can add in sprints (assuming you've got the running base for it) or you can add a glute strengthening routine (weights or body weight).
Look up Brett Contreras if you decide to do the weight routine.
Thank you I'll look that up yes I don't know what they do beyond running but I do see them everyday on it0 -
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Really? "Kitten"??? Please replace kitten with A. S. S. and you'll have the correct link.
Jebus...1
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