Is it bro-science that you have to roll your glutes side to side instead of up and down?

serapel
serapel Posts: 502 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
A PT came up to me and told me that if I roll my glutes up and down, it will just make them longer and they won't look as big?

PT told me to instead roll side to side to make the glute appear bigger.

Bro-science?

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  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
    edited October 2016
    Your profile says you are on a glute mission? Does you PT work with you on your pelvic issues and has he advised this method to help with that?
  • serapel
    serapel Posts: 502 Member
    RoxieDawn wrote: »
    Your profile says you are on a glute mission? Does you PT work with you on your pelvic issues and has he advised this method to help with that?

    I don't have a PT anymore unfortunately. Wish I did.

    Yes, it was to loosen up my tight muscles to fix my pelvis.

    It was a different PT who told me of the foam rolling and I immediately thought "bro-science" in my head.
  • serapel
    serapel Posts: 502 Member
    rileyes wrote: »
    Is his name Willy? Because that sounds silly.

    lol...to his face? dare me???
  • ew_david
    ew_david Posts: 3,473 Member
    For clarification: do you mean a Personal Trainer or a Physical Therapist?
  • jemhh
    jemhh Posts: 14,261 Member
    _dracarys_ wrote: »
    For clarification: do you mean a Personal Trainer or a Physical Therapist?

    I am *kitten*uming she means personal trainer because I can't imagine a physical therapist walking up to tell somebody how to get her butt to look bigger. But I could be totally wrong about that.
  • ew_david
    ew_david Posts: 3,473 Member
    jemhh wrote: »
    _dracarys_ wrote: »
    For clarification: do you mean a Personal Trainer or a Physical Therapist?

    I am *kitten*uming she means personal trainer because I can't imagine a physical therapist walking up to tell somebody how to get her butt to look bigger. But I could be totally wrong about that.

    Agree. I would hope no physical therapist actually said that.
  • upoffthemat
    upoffthemat Posts: 679 Member
    jemhh wrote: »
    I'm trying to wrap my mind around the idea and just cannot do it. I keep thinking of rolling out dough and the fact that the more you roll it out, the thinner and flatter it gets. I'm going to start telling people that I have big muscles but they aren't visible because I rolled them too much.

    Love the way you think
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    Yes, yes that's exactly the way it works
  • JoRocka
    JoRocka Posts: 17,525 Member
    Sued0nim wrote: »
    Yes, yes that's exactly the way it works

    oh noes Sued- what happened- you're behind bars!!! WTF
  • GiddyupTim
    GiddyupTim Posts: 2,819 Member
    Does this mean that if I shave those light, vellous hairs that I have high up on my cheeks that they will grow back darker?
    Ask that PT for me when you see him/her again. K?
  • serapel
    serapel Posts: 502 Member
    yeah...thought it was bro-science. sounded ridiculous.

    dang...and I thought I had a valid reason for my flat glutes haha
  • jdhcm2006
    jdhcm2006 Posts: 2,254 Member
    Sued0nim wrote: »
    JoRocka wrote: »
    Sued0nim wrote: »
    Yes, yes that's exactly the way it works

    oh noes Sued- what happened- you're behind bars!!! WTF

    It's ok

    I will roll my way out of them

    LMAO!!! But make sure you roll from side to side and NOT up and down or else the PT will come and get you.
  • JoRocka
    JoRocka Posts: 17,525 Member
    Sued0nim wrote: »
    JoRocka wrote: »
    Sued0nim wrote: »
    Yes, yes that's exactly the way it works

    oh noes Sued- what happened- you're behind bars!!! WTF

    It's ok

    I will roll my way out of them
    make sure you roll the right direction so you get long and skinny so you can slip between the bars.
  • jolive7
    jolive7 Posts: 283 Member
    Maybe they were playing with you haha!
  • serapel
    serapel Posts: 502 Member
    jolive7 wrote: »
    Maybe they were playing with you haha!

    well judging by your profile picture, you definitely roll sideways with those glutes :)
  • Elise4270
    Elise4270 Posts: 8,375 Member
    Geez I was confused for a sec. Though "rolling" was some new form of twerking. Was really an odd image I had in my head, like a playdoh rump.
  • esjones12
    esjones12 Posts: 1,363 Member
    You know what makes them really big? Laying them on an LAX ball and working out the knots everyone rolls right over.

    </sarcasm>

    But seriously. Try it.
  • Wheelhouse15
    Wheelhouse15 Posts: 5,575 Member
    JoRocka wrote: »
    that's the dumbest *kitten* thing I've heard recently- and I work in state government.
    so I hear dumb *kitten* all the time.

    no.

    just.


    no

    /end thread. That is so laughable it reminds me of when my mother used to say not to pout because my face would freeze like that. Actually, there isn't even a lot of research showing much of any substantial benefit to rolling other than it does provide temporary pain relief but so do a lot of other things.

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