Are Squat Butts Real??
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toned_thugs_n_harmony wrote: »NikkiiBaby68 wrote: »Kettlebell kettlebell kettlebell. I am 48. Even though I have been unable to work out for 3 years from having neuro Lyme Disease...my butt is my best asset lol. It is still lifted luscious and round. I am including this link for youtube with varied people doing exercises. I have Lisa Balash Kettlebell bombshell dvd and love it as well as numerous others but hers is great because it is a slow workout with method as opposed to work out like a class. Capiche? If you have any questions at all let me know. I was a personal trainer and group fitness instructor before I got sick and plan on getting back to it. The kettlebell is my second boyfriend.
just commenting to say, as someone who also suffers from lyme disease, you are amazing! it took me years to manage the pain, but i am back to working out all the time now so i know you will be soon too!
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IG/YouTube is full of people posting trying to be famous and/or selling a product. Much like one sees a model using a bowflex or aerobics DVD with muscular body, its just a form of marketing to sell products. Social media is full of bad information and followed by people that believe and follow them/it.
this..
stop cruising social media looking for your "ideal body" type....
LOL It's everywhere
I sometimes wish I could avoid it...lol 0 -
The other thing is that these beauty standards are so arbitrary. When I was 20, I was supposed look waif-like. Then it was broad shoulders/narrow hips. Now I'm supposed to have a flat stomach and a round butt? How about just getting fit and letting your body take its own optimal shape, instead of trying to look like someone else?
/Rant
No kidding! I grew up in fear of "secretary spread." I tried to explain this to a much younger coworker and he was completely dumbfounded. Could not believe there was a time when women wanted small butts!5 -
NYCDutchess wrote: »IG/YouTube is full of people posting trying to be famous and/or selling a product. Much like one sees a model using a bowflex or aerobics DVD with muscular body, its just a form of marketing to sell products. Social media is full of bad information and followed by people that believe and follow them/it.
this..
stop cruising social media looking for your "ideal body" type....
LOL It's everywhere I sometimes wish I could avoid it...lol
just focus on being the best version of yourself that you can be...2 -
I'm kinda late to the party but (lol butt) my two cents...
Women can definetly gain a significant amount of muscle naturally, add a lower body fat on top of that and be prepared to get a few "man" comments from people who don't like that look. As mentioned, it takes a long time though, and from what I seen there's not alot of women who train in a way that will get them supuh-bulky any how.
Some comeptitiors strategically train their bodies to enhance certain features, such as appearing to have a small waist and larger butt (a bigger back/shoulders actually helps with this).
Personally squats do very little for my butt, after a few months of adding some glute isolation work my butt actually looked/felt significantly higher. But for this reason I dislike the term "squat booty." No part of my booty is from squats.
A lot of it comes down to posing and angles though. My butt is pretty whatever during normal life, but get the hip pop angle down and suddenly it's on a whole different level. (I also have a bit on anterior pelvic tilt, which makes it stick out a little further.) I almost feel ridiculous taking a picture where I've purposely made my butt look bigger. Sometimes I think I need to caption like "lol guys this is not real". It is, but it isn't. You know.
I follow a girl who does bikini comps on IG, she's not going to win any shows any time soon, but she can pose well to make her butt appear pretty round. Watch any of her squat videos and you will wonder if she actually has a butt at all though. Seriously. Flat. I've noticed a similar trend with a lot of girls who actually post videos of themselves working out/squatting. They look significantly more "normal" when they aren't posing.
Anyway, not sure what my point is, but there is my ramble.7 -
RavenLibra wrote: »The best butt at the Gym I go to belongs to a young woman, (under 30 I would estimate) who kills it on her "leg day" after her warm up she goes straight for a barbell and a bench to do hip thrusts with some 315 lbs... 3 sets of 15... then the smith machine for lunges ... then it's off to the squat machine and then leg curls, she spends at least 2 hours "working it" what is her diet like? I couldn't say... I do know she takes her workouts a serious as any.
Loved this story, thanks!RavenLibra wrote: »of course it takes time and dedication to work yourself up to weights exceeding 300 lbs... and this young lady has obviously taken the time and dedicated herself to herself... sure there are smoke and mirrors to enhance fitness models... but if you spend anytime at a co-ed gym... you will find women of all ages putting in the effort... just like dudes. Bro's and Brah's ... so, spend less time cruising social media... and become a participant in your life and YOU won't be asking questions like this.IG/YouTube is full of people posting trying to be famous and/or selling a product. Much like one sees a model using a bowflex or aerobics DVD with muscular body, its just a form of marketing to sell products. Social media is full of bad information and followed by people that believe and follow them/it.
this..
stop cruising social media looking for your "ideal body" type....
I'm actually not on much social media currently. I follow that girl's fitness channel on YouTube. (Notice in the one picture I had googled her Instagram and not taken the picture from Instagram.)
I don't keep a serious Facebook account either. Five friends
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Actually... the only thing I'm on regularly is Twitter. Which I use for news. And here.... (Rather funny talking about cruising social media while posting on a forum.)
Besides! Nothing wrong with wondering what's physiologically possible. 2 -
Never too late for you! I love all your pictures. I'd happily have your booty.TresaAswegan wrote: »I'm kinda late to the party but (lol butt) my two cents... 0 -
Lol.... Now I know why some posts have kitten in them! Lmao....
I know Right? I didn't get why people were always saying it in posts till it happened to me.
You can for sure build a squat booty. It takes time, progressive lifting, and a surplus. But it will happen. Glute bridges are definitely the way to go in terms of glute activation, along with lunges. My girlfriend complains about her but size but won't do any workouts I suggest meanwhile my butt keeps getting bigger and stronger.
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Mouse_Potato wrote: »The other thing is that these beauty standards are so arbitrary. When I was 20, I was supposed look waif-like. Then it was broad shoulders/narrow hips. Now I'm supposed to have a flat stomach and a round butt? How about just getting fit and letting your body take its own optimal shape, instead of trying to look like someone else?
/Rant
No kidding! I grew up in fear of "secretary spread." I tried to explain this to a much younger coworker and he was completely dumbfounded. Could not believe there was a time when women wanted small butts!
My mom used to make fun of my big butt lol. It wasn't "big" just super round "apple bottom".
She had a similar shape to what I have now lol... which would have been OBESE back then...smh. 0 -
P.S. I think it's totally acceptable to see something like that and wonder "is this for real?"
We want to set obtainable/realistic goals, and obviously photoshop and surgery isn't something we can accomplish naturally.
I've been told I can never look like Dana Linn Bailey, and maybe I can't, but that doesn't mean I can't be inspired by her to become the best version of myself possible.
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SierraFatToSkinny wrote: »RavenLibra wrote: »The best butt at the Gym I go to belongs to a young woman, (under 30 I would estimate) who kills it on her "leg day" after her warm up she goes straight for a barbell and a bench to do hip thrusts with some 315 lbs... 3 sets of 15... then the smith machine for lunges ... then it's off to the squat machine and then leg curls, she spends at least 2 hours "working it" what is her diet like? I couldn't say... I do know she takes her workouts a serious as any.
Loved this story, thanks!RavenLibra wrote: »of course it takes time and dedication to work yourself up to weights exceeding 300 lbs... and this young lady has obviously taken the time and dedicated herself to herself... sure there are smoke and mirrors to enhance fitness models... but if you spend anytime at a co-ed gym... you will find women of all ages putting in the effort... just like dudes. Bro's and Brah's ... so, spend less time cruising social media... and become a participant in your life and YOU won't be asking questions like this.IG/YouTube is full of people posting trying to be famous and/or selling a product. Much like one sees a model using a bowflex or aerobics DVD with muscular body, its just a form of marketing to sell products. Social media is full of bad information and followed by people that believe and follow them/it.
this..
stop cruising social media looking for your "ideal body" type....
I'm actually not on much social media currently. I follow that girl's fitness channel on YouTube. (Notice in the one picture I had googled her Instagram and not taken the picture from Instagram.)
I don't keep a serious Facebook account either. Five friends .
Actually... the only thing I'm on regularly is Twitter. Which I use for news. And here.... (Rather funny talking about cruising social media while posting on a forum.)
Besides! Nothing wrong with wondering what's physiologically possible.
if you want to know what is physiologically possible then I would suggest reading real articles on health and fitness and not cruising social media for it.3 -
SierraFatToSkinny wrote: »RavenLibra wrote: »The best butt at the Gym I go to belongs to a young woman, (under 30 I would estimate) who kills it on her "leg day" after her warm up she goes straight for a barbell and a bench to do hip thrusts with some 315 lbs... 3 sets of 15... then the smith machine for lunges ... then it's off to the squat machine and then leg curls, she spends at least 2 hours "working it" what is her diet like? I couldn't say... I do know she takes her workouts a serious as any.
Loved this story, thanks!RavenLibra wrote: »of course it takes time and dedication to work yourself up to weights exceeding 300 lbs... and this young lady has obviously taken the time and dedicated herself to herself... sure there are smoke and mirrors to enhance fitness models... but if you spend anytime at a co-ed gym... you will find women of all ages putting in the effort... just like dudes. Bro's and Brah's ... so, spend less time cruising social media... and become a participant in your life and YOU won't be asking questions like this.IG/YouTube is full of people posting trying to be famous and/or selling a product. Much like one sees a model using a bowflex or aerobics DVD with muscular body, its just a form of marketing to sell products. Social media is full of bad information and followed by people that believe and follow them/it.
this..
stop cruising social media looking for your "ideal body" type....
I'm actually not on much social media currently. I follow that girl's fitness channel on YouTube. (Notice in the one picture I had googled her Instagram and not taken the picture from Instagram.)
I don't keep a serious Facebook account either. Five friends .
Actually... the only thing I'm on regularly is Twitter. Which I use for news. And here.... (Rather funny talking about cruising social media while posting on a forum.)
Besides! Nothing wrong with wondering what's physiologically possible.
if you want to know what is physiologically possible then I would suggest reading real articles on health and fitness and not cruising social media for it.
I could be wrong, but I feel like 'physiological' is being used in the wrong context here?0 -
_incogNEATo_ wrote: »SierraFatToSkinny wrote: »RavenLibra wrote: »The best butt at the Gym I go to belongs to a young woman, (under 30 I would estimate) who kills it on her "leg day" after her warm up she goes straight for a barbell and a bench to do hip thrusts with some 315 lbs... 3 sets of 15... then the smith machine for lunges ... then it's off to the squat machine and then leg curls, she spends at least 2 hours "working it" what is her diet like? I couldn't say... I do know she takes her workouts a serious as any.
Loved this story, thanks!RavenLibra wrote: »of course it takes time and dedication to work yourself up to weights exceeding 300 lbs... and this young lady has obviously taken the time and dedicated herself to herself... sure there are smoke and mirrors to enhance fitness models... but if you spend anytime at a co-ed gym... you will find women of all ages putting in the effort... just like dudes. Bro's and Brah's ... so, spend less time cruising social media... and become a participant in your life and YOU won't be asking questions like this.IG/YouTube is full of people posting trying to be famous and/or selling a product. Much like one sees a model using a bowflex or aerobics DVD with muscular body, its just a form of marketing to sell products. Social media is full of bad information and followed by people that believe and follow them/it.
this..
stop cruising social media looking for your "ideal body" type....
I'm actually not on much social media currently. I follow that girl's fitness channel on YouTube. (Notice in the one picture I had googled her Instagram and not taken the picture from Instagram.)
I don't keep a serious Facebook account either. Five friends .
Actually... the only thing I'm on regularly is Twitter. Which I use for news. And here.... (Rather funny talking about cruising social media while posting on a forum.)
Besides! Nothing wrong with wondering what's physiologically possible.
if you want to know what is physiologically possible then I would suggest reading real articles on health and fitness and not cruising social media for it.
I could be wrong, but I feel like 'physiological' is being used in the wrong context here?
crap, yea you might be right...I was speed reading..2 -
I really wish I had some side or back before pictures from before I did Stronglifts the first time three years ago. I have fat butt genes like my aunts and was a gymnast as a child, so I've always been well endowed in the rear. somewhere in my weight gain my butt started getting droopy looking. I started doing Stronglifts while eating in a deficit at about 250 lbs and a month later my butt became crazy perky and round. I don't know if it was the squats or the deads, but it made a huge difference. Like I seriously couldn't stop checking out my rear view in the mirror for weeks. I manged to keep the butt perk through gaining back the weight and then some doing SL off and on through the years.
I added hip thrusts a couple weeks ago, because I'm under the delusion that I'm losing my butt. Logic tells me that is impossible, but a few hip thrusts added to the end of SL won't kill me. I do have pics this time so I'll let you know if I see any difference.
From your photos @SierraFatToSkinny it looks like you have some good lower body fat genes, so I'm sure you will end up with a great butt if you work for it. Having a small waist can also help add to the illusion of a bigger butt. All that hiking you do won't hurt either. In my experience those squats and deads make a difference. Just make sure you are going below parallel in your squats, because that is where I feel it in my glutes, like right at the bottom those glutes fire up and lift me out of the squat. In my case it helped to video myself squatting because I felt like I was getting low when I started but really wasn't.0 -
My squat butt is real...2
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_incogNEATo_ wrote: »SierraFatToSkinny wrote: »RavenLibra wrote: »The best butt at the Gym I go to belongs to a young woman, (under 30 I would estimate) who kills it on her "leg day" after her warm up she goes straight for a barbell and a bench to do hip thrusts with some 315 lbs... 3 sets of 15... then the smith machine for lunges ... then it's off to the squat machine and then leg curls, she spends at least 2 hours "working it" what is her diet like? I couldn't say... I do know she takes her workouts a serious as any.
Loved this story, thanks!RavenLibra wrote: »of course it takes time and dedication to work yourself up to weights exceeding 300 lbs... and this young lady has obviously taken the time and dedicated herself to herself... sure there are smoke and mirrors to enhance fitness models... but if you spend anytime at a co-ed gym... you will find women of all ages putting in the effort... just like dudes. Bro's and Brah's ... so, spend less time cruising social media... and become a participant in your life and YOU won't be asking questions like this.IG/YouTube is full of people posting trying to be famous and/or selling a product. Much like one sees a model using a bowflex or aerobics DVD with muscular body, its just a form of marketing to sell products. Social media is full of bad information and followed by people that believe and follow them/it.
this..
stop cruising social media looking for your "ideal body" type....
I'm actually not on much social media currently. I follow that girl's fitness channel on YouTube. (Notice in the one picture I had googled her Instagram and not taken the picture from Instagram.)
I don't keep a serious Facebook account either. Five friends .
Actually... the only thing I'm on regularly is Twitter. Which I use for news. And here.... (Rather funny talking about cruising social media while posting on a forum.)
Besides! Nothing wrong with wondering what's physiologically possible.
if you want to know what is physiologically possible then I would suggest reading real articles on health and fitness and not cruising social media for it.
I could be wrong, but I feel like 'physiological' is being used in the wrong context here?
Boy... you guys sure know how to nitpick.
Does anatomically work better for you?
Nothing wrong with wondering about what's anatomically possible.
Tbh... my original confusion had to do with the constant drum beat of women not being able to build large muscles and ALSO building large bums by lifting heavy. I'm wondering where on the spectrum reality is.
Edit: You know what... I'm sorry. I've been neglecting all the really helpful information.
I'm inspired. I'm currently in a deficit, so my muscle building won't do much. But I can look ahead and see a future where my butt isn't too saggy from weight loss.0 -
I think women can expect to gain .5-1 lb of muscle per month if eating over maintenance and training consistently. But, you can't just gain in your glutes.
You can target working your glutes if you have something to work with. Everyone has glutes, of course, but some glutes are very underdeveloped.
Bret Conteras' Strong Curves is good.
it is more like .25 muscle to .75 fat for every pond gained...
*kitten*, really? That ain't fair
Remind me to never bulk.2 -
I think some of you are reading into this a little much....
I don't see anywhere that the OP mentioned a desire to look exactly like someone else.
She asked if what you see in some of these pictures is real (and we've determined that a lot of it is just angles), and if women can't build a ton of muscle naturally why do the glutes seem to be an exception.
Why do so many people feel the need to tell her to get off the internet because she had a question?9 -
I think women can expect to gain .5-1 lb of muscle per month if eating over maintenance and training consistently. But, you can't just gain in your glutes.
You can target working your glutes if you have something to work with. Everyone has glutes, of course, but some glutes are very underdeveloped.
Bret Conteras' Strong Curves is good.
it is more like .25 muscle to .75 fat for every pond gained...
*kitten*, really? That ain't fair
Remind me to never bulk.
Hahaha. I read that a couple of years ago when I was considering doing a bulk. It really put me off- I am sticking to my ever so slow recomp and dreaming of bulking when I am not worried about big belly fat gain. I may reach that stage one day.
I was blessed with the pre pubescent hips of a skinny lad. Post menopause I don't think anything is going to change. I just keep working on preventing sag!
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SierraFatToSkinny wrote: »_incogNEATo_ wrote: »SierraFatToSkinny wrote: »RavenLibra wrote: »The best butt at the Gym I go to belongs to a young woman, (under 30 I would estimate) who kills it on her "leg day" after her warm up she goes straight for a barbell and a bench to do hip thrusts with some 315 lbs... 3 sets of 15... then the smith machine for lunges ... then it's off to the squat machine and then leg curls, she spends at least 2 hours "working it" what is her diet like? I couldn't say... I do know she takes her workouts a serious as any.
Loved this story, thanks!RavenLibra wrote: »of course it takes time and dedication to work yourself up to weights exceeding 300 lbs... and this young lady has obviously taken the time and dedicated herself to herself... sure there are smoke and mirrors to enhance fitness models... but if you spend anytime at a co-ed gym... you will find women of all ages putting in the effort... just like dudes. Bro's and Brah's ... so, spend less time cruising social media... and become a participant in your life and YOU won't be asking questions like this.IG/YouTube is full of people posting trying to be famous and/or selling a product. Much like one sees a model using a bowflex or aerobics DVD with muscular body, its just a form of marketing to sell products. Social media is full of bad information and followed by people that believe and follow them/it.
this..
stop cruising social media looking for your "ideal body" type....
I'm actually not on much social media currently. I follow that girl's fitness channel on YouTube. (Notice in the one picture I had googled her Instagram and not taken the picture from Instagram.)
I don't keep a serious Facebook account either. Five friends .
Actually... the only thing I'm on regularly is Twitter. Which I use for news. And here.... (Rather funny talking about cruising social media while posting on a forum.)
Besides! Nothing wrong with wondering what's physiologically possible.
if you want to know what is physiologically possible then I would suggest reading real articles on health and fitness and not cruising social media for it.
I could be wrong, but I feel like 'physiological' is being used in the wrong context here?
Boy... you guys sure know how to nitpick.
Does anatomically work better for you?
Nothing wrong with wondering about what's anatomically possible.
Tbh... my original confusion had to do with the constant drum beat of women not being able to build large muscles and ALSO building large bums by lifting heavy. I'm wondering where on the spectrum reality is.
Edit: You know what... I'm sorry. I've been neglecting all the really helpful information.
I'm inspired. I'm currently in a deficit, so my muscle building won't do much. But I can look ahead and see a future where my butt isn't too saggy from weight loss.
Generally when people talk about women not being able to build large muscles, they're usually talking about getting really big and the context is generally in a discussion where said woman thinks she's going to walk past a rack of dumbbells and turn into the hulk.
Also, a lot is going to depend on genetics. My wife maintains a fair amount of muscle mass and can build muscle mass relatively easy as compared to many other women. One of her girlfriends is really petite and has a pretty rough go of it and genetically will always have a pretty flat *kitten*.
I am genetically gifted with a booty..squatting and whatnot has enhanced that...but I know a lot of guys who squat and have the typical, flat, man *kitten*.
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I think women can expect to gain .5-1 lb of muscle per month if eating over maintenance and training consistently. But, you can't just gain in your glutes.
You can target working your glutes if you have something to work with. Everyone has glutes, of course, but some glutes are very underdeveloped.
Bret Conteras' Strong Curves is good.
it is more like .25 muscle to .75 fat for every pond gained...
*kitten*, really? That ain't fair
Remind me to never bulk.
Don't let that discourage you! I mean, bulking isn't for everyone, but it is such an amazing experience (kind of like a rollercoaster ride sometimes) but watching your body transform before your eyes is really cool. Ya so there is fat gain, but believe me if you go slow and steady and it isn't too bad (at least in my experience!) Obviously you look fantastic so whatever you are doing is working, but if you were considering jumping into the bulk pool it isn't that bad
And OP, no worries.. I often wonder the same thing.. how much is really possible with muscle growth, what is enhanced, what is angle, what is genetics.. I actually admit, I spend too much time on social media (mainly Instagram) it is terrible, and I know I shouldn't do it. I should be focusing on myself but meh, sometimes I like to see what other people are up to and what they did (or say they did) to get where they are.4 -
cwolfman13 wrote: »
I am genetically gifted with a booty..squatting and whatnot has enhanced that...but I know a lot of guys who squat and have the typical, flat, man *kitten*.
Yes! Speaking of genetics...I have two 13yr old boys. One is my biological son, the other is adopted. They have always been the same height, same weight. but one has a booty you could bounce a nickel off of (while the rest of him is skin and bones) and the other has a flat butt, but pecs and a six pack.
Edit* - And if anyone is wondering...the flat butt comes from me.
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Couple of things matter here: building in a surplus and genetics. Your shape is your shape and no amount of exercise will absolutely change your genetic shape, but you can ENHANCE what you already have.
Doing squats and hip thrusts will develop strength and some muscle tone, but actually growing muscle on the current shape you have takes quite a bit of work and again a surplus.
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Posture can make your rear look bigger too, see above pics for reference. Most of the women I've ever known want smaller butts, not bigger ones, lol.0
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I think women can expect to gain .5-1 lb of muscle per month if eating over maintenance and training consistently. But, you can't just gain in your glutes.
You can target working your glutes if you have something to work with. Everyone has glutes, of course, but some glutes are very underdeveloped.
Bret Conteras' Strong Curves is good.
it is more like .25 muscle to .75 fat for every pond gained...
*kitten*, really? That ain't fair
Remind me to never bulk.
Well that purely depends on your surplus. If I eat at a 500 calorie surplus itll be around a 1:1.5 ratio of muscle to fat. If I eat at a 750 calorie surplus it'll be more like a 1:2-2.5 muscle to fat gain ratio.
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The women i see squattin in the gym almost all have really nice butts. Before and after my gf has very noticable improvement from a year and half ago. Not too forget she has probably x3 her leg strength in that time too. Squats appear to get real and nice results2
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Squat Butts are real as long as you don't expect crazy instagram results. I saw this really small change in 6 months of squatting + rear kicks + the behind-the-thigh musculation machine. If somebody here have the real names, I will gladly learn and sound less lame
PS: a lot of running, I lost about 10 pounds between the two photos. As you can see there is really not much of a difference for that much work, so yes, they are real and not real I guess (for me).0
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