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    Can you be a runner and still have a rear ?

    Posts: 178 Member
    edited December 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
    Everyone tells me I need to do more cardio but I don't want a flat one

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    • Posts: 30,886 Member
      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.
    • Posts: 25,763 Member
      Running made my rear smaller, not flatter.
    • Posts: 597 Member
      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.
    • Posts: 178 Member
      Great so I have to pick one or the other
    • Posts: 13,049 Member
      lizzelspark wrote: »
      Everyone tells me I need to do more cardio but I don't want a flat one

      Genetics mostly.
    • Posts: 35,719 Member
      _Waffle_ wrote: »
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      Genetics mostly.

      Yep. I have a very ample rear and I run.
    • Posts: 178 Member
      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 ?
    • Posts: 49 Member
      If you run and also do squats you should have a bangin booty tbh
    • Posts: 30,886 Member
      lizzelspark wrote: »
      Great so I have to pick one or the other

      Where do you get this?
    • Posts: 178 Member
      When I look at the girls on the treadmill all I see are flat rears
    • Posts: 597 Member
      lizzelspark wrote: »
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      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.
    • Posts: 30,886 Member
      They probably don't strength train. I don't get why you can't do both. Strength training is extremely beneficial for running.
    • Posts: 178 Member
      lemurcat12 wrote: »
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      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 flatten
    • Posts: 178 Member
      VioletRojo wrote: »
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      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 then
    • Posts: 1,639 Member
      I do a lot of cardio, and I do a lot of lifting. Bodyweight and goblet squats are great for making that booty pop.
    • Posts: 178 Member
      Maybe I need to give it more of a chance
    • Posts: 13,049 Member
      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.
    • Posts: 119 Member
      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)?
    • Posts: 178 Member
      janejellyroll wrote: »
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      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
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    • Posts: 3,103 Member
      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.
    • Posts: 178 Member
      Can you get the same results from running treadmill at highest incline as running hills ?
    • Posts: 3,538 Member
      edited May 2016
      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? :lol:
    • Posts: 25,763 Member
      lizzelspark wrote: »
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      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.
    • Posts: 178 Member
      stealthq wrote: »
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      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 it
    • Posts: 178 Member
      rsclause wrote: »
      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.

      I have worked to get it don't want to lose it over trying to drop body fat faster
    • Posts: 1,791 Member
      I love this article:

      http://www.xojane.com/healthy/the-treadmill-ate-my-*kitten*-or-how-to-avoid-treadmill-*kitten*-syndrome
    • Posts: 1,791 Member
      Really? "Kitten"??? Please replace kitten with A. S. S. and you'll have the correct link.

      Jebus...
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