Can I build a booty without weights?
Tia98Jade
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Hey! So currently I don't have access to a gym or weights and I want a big booty! I've been doing booty workouts that supposedly will give me a bigger butt but all it's done is toned it and made it rounder, but not bigger.
My worry is that if I keep doing the same workout my body will get used to it and stop any process all together so I've made a new workout to try out this afternoon - but idk if it will give me the booty I want still or just keep it toned??
Any tips, advice or moves? Help!
My worry is that if I keep doing the same workout my body will get used to it and stop any process all together so I've made a new workout to try out this afternoon - but idk if it will give me the booty I want still or just keep it toned??
Any tips, advice or moves? Help!
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No. Resistance training is the only way you can target a specific area of the body. Adding calories, you don't control where the weight will go.7
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Yes, do three hundred body squats every morning. No breaks until the last rep24
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Yes, do three hundred body squats every morning. No breaks until the last rep
That's a great way to damage muscles for a beginner and potentially cause rhabdomyolysis. Building muscle at some point takes increasing difficulty rather than increasing reps. Building glutes takes more than squats.10 -
Are you currently eating in a deficit? To see significant glute growth, you will ideally want to be eating at maintenance or better yet above.
In order to see results, you want to progress over time (progressive overload). You also want to be following a program, Strong Curves has a bodyweight/ home program .. at some point though you may have to invest in weights to progress most optimally.10 -
TeacupsAndToning wrote: »
Yes it's a joke. I don't think you can build muscles without weights or with calories deficiency5 -
If you can't progressively add weights, then there's no way you can build muscles. If you use your own bodyweight, the body will adapt and the muscles have no reasons to grow.4
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You could fill two duffle bags with equal weights of heavy things like books and use the bags as weights. You could do the same with a large back pack. Not hard to pack heavy weight into those and it would give you some weighted options for all the classic glute moves.12
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I wanted to loose some weight, tone & get a nice booty. I was very successful doing incline training on my treadmill. Took me a while but once I got to my goal weight it all came together nicely. My legs matched my butt. My friends all nicknames me 'Legs' afterwards and 6 years later it sticks.
The incline caused me to use different muscle groups in my booty. Let me tell you my butt literally burned for months. Better than any other workout I've ever tried. And a bonus my legs look amazing too. My lower body is solid muscle. My gf though I was 'thick', ya know fat but still look good. One day she tried to pinch my thigh as a joke and was like damn girl I though you were thick, you not you a brick house. Worked for me.
P.S. I tried martial arts, crossfit, weight training, personal trainers before with no results. Incline training on a treadmill helped me break through.4 -
Possibly.
Impossible with calorie surplus.5 -
nakedraygun wrote: »Possibly.
Impossible with calorie surplus.
you mean deficit10 -
I'd like to play devil's advocate here.
I used to be a soccer player.
I have seen many teenage boy soccer players develop pretty massive legs just by playing soccer, which one would think would be impossible considering how many calories sprinting 4-7 miles a game and maybe 4 miles per practice that it requires.
My brother has extremely large thighs from soccer and periodic training running hill repeats -- nothing more.
Now certainly, those are teenage males loaded up on testosterone who might have developed those legs anyway. But it is not uncommon on the soccer field, and I definitely know male cyclists (admittedly young, again) who have developed large legs without weights by bicycling -- hard bicycling, but bicycling alone nonetheless.
Moreover, my wife, a 50-year-old female and a life-long runner, recently took up rowing on a team. She has now been doing it for approximately two years. She has wide hips and she used to have a fairly flat butt. But she's my wife, so I look at her butt quite often and I think it has gained some volume over these two years of rowing. It is hard to say without being able to compare before and after side-by-side. But it definitely seems like it to me.
Sure, lifting weights in ever increasing quantities is, of course, optimal. But it seems quite possible to build muscle with other activities.
There are guys in the park who do nothing but body weight calisthenics -- not to mention gymnasts -- who are absolutely jacked. They may not have the size of a body builder, but they are quite muscular.7 -
@giddyuptim. Agreed. I personally know two people that have never been in a gym. Have never lifted a barbell, but look muscular and fit.
My niece, who had 9 years of dance lessons, is all muscle. Fit like crazy, with an enviable and fit body.
My neighbor, who is in his early 30s, doesn’t drive a car and bikes everywhere. That plus doing laps in his pool and he looks super fit. Unless your goal is to look bigger and muscular, like a body builder, there is more than one way to get there, and they don’t necessarily have to involve a gym or barbells.
Personally, I think most people just want to look fit.2 -
JaydedMiss wrote: »nakedraygun wrote: »Possibly.
Impossible with calorie surplus.
you mean deficit
He means surplus.6 -
Firm up your *kitten* using bands and floor exercises but there'll be no bubble butt...0
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JaydedMiss wrote: »nakedraygun wrote: »Possibly.
Impossible with calorie surplus.
you mean deficit
He means surplus.
Y'all figure this out, ok?3 -
Silkysausage wrote: »Firm up your *kitten* using bands and floor exercises but there'll be no bubble butt...
If you can manage to progressively add resistance in a surplus you can. It is more difficult but not impossible2 -
TeacupsAndToning wrote: »
Yes it's a joke. I don't think you can build muscles without weights or with calories deficiency
yeah you can, one legged squats are a thing for instance.
just like a one arm pull up, if you're able to do them you will have some muscles
it is possible to progressively overload without weights, you just have to get creative.0 -
No, that builds "muscular endurance". To put on muscle size, you need PROGRESSIVE OVERLOAD and doing air squats ain't gonna achieve that.Yes, do three hundred body squats every morning. No breaks until the last rep
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Silkysausage wrote: »Firm up your *kitten* using bands and floor exercises but there'll be no bubble butt...
If you can manage to progressively add resistance in a surplus you can. It is more difficult but not impossibleSilkysausage wrote: »Firm up your *kitten* using bands and floor exercises but there'll be no bubble butt...
If you can manage to progressively add resistance in a surplus you can. It is more difficult but not impossible
You know, I had internalized the whole “you can't build muscle without weights and a surplus” but then I had an aerialist instructor who did nothing but body resistance trapeze and aerial silks. I asked her if she lifted and she laughed out loud. “I don’t need to do that *kitten* with this” she said.
She probably was eating at a surplus at some point, but with no lifting at all she had massive arms/shoulders/back. She was probably 4in shorter than me, 30lbs heavier and much leaner.
Add in her flexibility and I was ridiculously jealous.
Not impossible, but I think a lot of people here on MFP discount the possibility. It just takes a LOT of dedication.1 -
If you're talking sprints and gymnastics, these are exercises that are more ANAEROBIC than aerobic. Look at 100m sprinters versus long distance runners. Big difference in muscularity. And muscular definition has more to do with low body fat than actually having big muscles. Bruce Lee is a good example.GiddyupTim wrote: »I'd like to play devil's advocate here.
I used to be a soccer player.
I have seen many teenage boy soccer players develop pretty massive legs just by playing soccer, which one would think would be impossible considering how many calories sprinting 4-7 miles a game and maybe 4 miles per practice that it requires.
My brother has extremely large thighs from soccer and periodic training running hill repeats -- nothing more.
Now certainly, those are teenage males loaded up on testosterone who might have developed those legs anyway. But it is not uncommon on the soccer field, and I definitely know male cyclists (admittedly young, again) who have developed large legs without weights by bicycling -- hard bicycling, but bicycling alone nonetheless.
Moreover, my wife, a 50-year-old female and a life-long runner, recently took up rowing on a team. She has now been doing it for approximately two years. She has wide hips and she used to have a fairly flat butt. But she's my wife, so I look at her butt quite often and I think it has gained some volume over these two years of rowing. It is hard to say without being able to compare before and after side-by-side. But it definitely seems like it to me.
Sure, lifting weights in ever increasing quantities is, of course, optimal. But it seems quite possible to build muscle with other activities.
There are guys in the park who do nothing but body weight calisthenics -- not to mention gymnasts -- who are absolutely jacked. They may not have the size of a body builder, but they are quite muscular.
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You do realize that if one GAINS weight, they are moving more resistance? That's progressive overload.Silkysausage wrote: »Firm up your *kitten* using bands and floor exercises but there'll be no bubble butt...
If you can manage to progressively add resistance in a surplus you can. It is more difficult but not impossibleSilkysausage wrote: »Firm up your *kitten* using bands and floor exercises but there'll be no bubble butt...
If you can manage to progressively add resistance in a surplus you can. It is more difficult but not impossible
You know, I had internalized the whole “you can't build muscle without weights and a surplus” but then I had an aerialist instructor who did nothing but body resistance trapeze and aerial silks. I asked her if she lifted and she laughed out loud. “I don’t need to do that *kitten* with this” she said.
She probably was eating at a surplus at some point, but with no lifting at all she had massive arms/shoulders/back. She was probably 4in shorter than me, 30lbs heavier and much leaner.
Add in her flexibility and I was ridiculously jealous.
Not impossible, but I think a lot of people here on MFP discount the possibility. It just takes a LOT of dedication.
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You do realize that if one GAINS weight, they are moving more resistance? That's progressive overload.Silkysausage wrote: »Firm up your *kitten* using bands and floor exercises but there'll be no bubble butt...
If you can manage to progressively add resistance in a surplus you can. It is more difficult but not impossibleSilkysausage wrote: »Firm up your *kitten* using bands and floor exercises but there'll be no bubble butt...
If you can manage to progressively add resistance in a surplus you can. It is more difficult but not impossible
You know, I had internalized the whole “you can't build muscle without weights and a surplus” but then I had an aerialist instructor who did nothing but body resistance trapeze and aerial silks. I asked her if she lifted and she laughed out loud. “I don’t need to do that *kitten* with this” she said.
She probably was eating at a surplus at some point, but with no lifting at all she had massive arms/shoulders/back. She was probably 4in shorter than me, 30lbs heavier and much leaner.
Add in her flexibility and I was ridiculously jealous.
Not impossible, but I think a lot of people here on MFP discount the possibility. It just takes a LOT of dedication.
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Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition
Absolutely. But here most people say you can’t get significant overload to build that much muscle with body weight alone. To the point where I feel like they are discouraging these activities.
Edit: no...gaining weight means they’re eating more regardless of resistance training. I respect you enough to know you know the difference. Gaining muscle is a different story, and she was a brick house that had never lifted a weight. Yes, she had to have had progressive overload, but she did it with body weight alone. That was my point.
Edit again. Oh I see what you’re saying about increased (body) weight...but that doesn’t change the fact that most people on MFP say it’s not possible.1 -
One can do progressive overload with body weight only by manipulating leverage points, but there's a limit. Aerialists do a lot of single arm, single leg and "flag poling", so they've definitely been able to progress not only in strength, but also a little muscle.
You do realize that if one GAINS weight, they are moving more resistance? That's progressive overload.Silkysausage wrote: »Firm up your *kitten* using bands and floor exercises but there'll be no bubble butt...
If you can manage to progressively add resistance in a surplus you can. It is more difficult but not impossibleSilkysausage wrote: »Firm up your *kitten* using bands and floor exercises but there'll be no bubble butt...
If you can manage to progressively add resistance in a surplus you can. It is more difficult but not impossible
You know, I had internalized the whole “you can't build muscle without weights and a surplus” but then I had an aerialist instructor who did nothing but body resistance trapeze and aerial silks. I asked her if she lifted and she laughed out loud. “I don’t need to do that *kitten* with this” she said.
She probably was eating at a surplus at some point, but with no lifting at all she had massive arms/shoulders/back. She was probably 4in shorter than me, 30lbs heavier and much leaner.
Add in her flexibility and I was ridiculously jealous.
Not impossible, but I think a lot of people here on MFP discount the possibility. It just takes a LOT of dedication.
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Absolutely. But here most people say you can’t get significant overload to build that much muscle with body weight alone. To the point where I feel like they are discouraging these activities.
Edit: no...gaining weight means they’re eating more regardless of resistance training. I respect you enough to know you know the difference. Gaining muscle is a different story, and she was a brick house that had never lifted a weight. Yes, she had to have had progressive overload, but she did it with body weight alone. That was my point.
Thing is, most AVERAGE people can't do a lot of gymnastics, aerial work, hard dancing, etc. well without a few years of experience under their belt. And most people WON'T take the time to learn it based on how society today looks for instant gratification. I don't think it dissuades them from trying it. I think it's the DEDICATION to sticking to it that most people may not be able to do (just like any exercise programming) unless they really commit to it.
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You do realize that if one GAINS weight, they are moving more resistance? That's progressive overload.Silkysausage wrote: »Firm up your *kitten* using bands and floor exercises but there'll be no bubble butt...
If you can manage to progressively add resistance in a surplus you can. It is more difficult but not impossibleSilkysausage wrote: »Firm up your *kitten* using bands and floor exercises but there'll be no bubble butt...
If you can manage to progressively add resistance in a surplus you can. It is more difficult but not impossible
You know, I had internalized the whole “you can't build muscle without weights and a surplus” but then I had an aerialist instructor who did nothing but body resistance trapeze and aerial silks. I asked her if she lifted and she laughed out loud. “I don’t need to do that *kitten* with this” she said.
She probably was eating at a surplus at some point, but with no lifting at all she had massive arms/shoulders/back. She was probably 4in shorter than me, 30lbs heavier and much leaner.
Add in her flexibility and I was ridiculously jealous.
Not impossible, but I think a lot of people here on MFP discount the possibility. It just takes a LOT of dedication.
A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
IDEA Fitness member
Kickboxing Certified Instructor
Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition
Absolutely. But here most people say you can’t get significant overload to build that much muscle with body weight alone. To the point where I feel like they are discouraging these activities.
Edit: no...gaining weight means they’re eating more regardless of resistance training. I respect you enough to know you know the difference. Gaining muscle is a different story, and she was a brick house that had never lifted a weight. Yes, she had to have had progressive overload, but she did it with body weight alone. That was my point.
Edit again. Oh I see what you’re saying about increased (body) weight...but that doesn’t change the fact that most people on MFP say it’s not possible.
Do you know what she looked like before she started aerial? Chances are she was a big girl who gained significant muscles from carrying around extra weight. Then she lost body fat and became a brick house. I'm around a lot of aerialists. While you can build some nice upper body muscle, you're not going to turn into a brick house doing it. Like climbers, most are very thin and lean with a lot of strength.
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Hey! So currently I don't have access to a gym or weights and I want a big booty! I've been doing booty workouts that supposedly will give me a bigger butt but all it's done is toned it and made it rounder, but not bigger.
My worry is that if I keep doing the same workout my body will get used to it and stop any process all together so I've made a new workout to try out this afternoon - but idk if it will give me the booty I want still or just keep it toned??
Any tips, advice or moves? Help!
Try glute Bridges0 -
Try glute Bridges0
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Eating enough and lifting consistently will make ur glutes grow but u have to have the mind muscle connection while doing the exercise and not just going thro the motions, also hip thrusts are great for glute growth.0
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If you're talking sprints and gymnastics, these are exercises that are more ANAEROBIC than aerobic. Look at 100m sprinters versus long distance runners. Big difference in muscularity. And muscular definition has more to do with low body fat than actually having big muscles. Bruce Lee is a good example.GiddyupTim wrote: »I'd like to play devil's advocate here.
I used to be a soccer player.
I have seen many teenage boy soccer players develop pretty massive legs just by playing soccer, which one would think would be impossible considering how many calories sprinting 4-7 miles a game and maybe 4 miles per practice that it requires.
My brother has extremely large thighs from soccer and periodic training running hill repeats -- nothing more.
Now certainly, those are teenage males loaded up on testosterone who might have developed those legs anyway. But it is not uncommon on the soccer field, and I definitely know male cyclists (admittedly young, again) who have developed large legs without weights by bicycling -- hard bicycling, but bicycling alone nonetheless.
Moreover, my wife, a 50-year-old female and a life-long runner, recently took up rowing on a team. She has now been doing it for approximately two years. She has wide hips and she used to have a fairly flat butt. But she's my wife, so I look at her butt quite often and I think it has gained some volume over these two years of rowing. It is hard to say without being able to compare before and after side-by-side. But it definitely seems like it to me.
Sure, lifting weights in ever increasing quantities is, of course, optimal. But it seems quite possible to build muscle with other activities.
There are guys in the park who do nothing but body weight calisthenics -- not to mention gymnasts -- who are absolutely jacked. They may not have the size of a body builder, but they are quite muscular.
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Um.......Whatever......They are bodyweight exercises and many people doing those activities get big, not just low body fat.
Look at the arms on those gymnasts!1 -
GiddyupTim wrote: »
If you're talking sprints and gymnastics, these are exercises that are more ANAEROBIC than aerobic. Look at 100m sprinters versus long distance runners. Big difference in muscularity. And muscular definition has more to do with low body fat than actually having big muscles. Bruce Lee is a good example.GiddyupTim wrote: »I'd like to play devil's advocate here.
I used to be a soccer player.
I have seen many teenage boy soccer players develop pretty massive legs just by playing soccer, which one would think would be impossible considering how many calories sprinting 4-7 miles a game and maybe 4 miles per practice that it requires.
My brother has extremely large thighs from soccer and periodic training running hill repeats -- nothing more.
Now certainly, those are teenage males loaded up on testosterone who might have developed those legs anyway. But it is not uncommon on the soccer field, and I definitely know male cyclists (admittedly young, again) who have developed large legs without weights by bicycling -- hard bicycling, but bicycling alone nonetheless.
Moreover, my wife, a 50-year-old female and a life-long runner, recently took up rowing on a team. She has now been doing it for approximately two years. She has wide hips and she used to have a fairly flat butt. But she's my wife, so I look at her butt quite often and I think it has gained some volume over these two years of rowing. It is hard to say without being able to compare before and after side-by-side. But it definitely seems like it to me.
Sure, lifting weights in ever increasing quantities is, of course, optimal. But it seems quite possible to build muscle with other activities.
There are guys in the park who do nothing but body weight calisthenics -- not to mention gymnasts -- who are absolutely jacked. They may not have the size of a body builder, but they are quite muscular.
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IDEA Fitness member
Kickboxing Certified Instructor
Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition
Um.......Whatever......They are bodyweight exercises and many people doing those activities get big, not just low body fat.
Look at the arms on those gymnasts!
And you honestly believe those gymnasts don't spend any time in the weight room?3
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