Will spin class increase my butt?
sdavis484
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I like spin but I worry about building my gluts even more under my fluff. Thoughts?
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I like spin but I worry about building my gluts even more under my fluff. Thoughts?
Nope...you're dieting. You aren't going to build much of anything in a calorie deficit. You are in a catabolic state and building muscle is anabolic. I spin and road ride and mountain bike...my legs and glutes are probably my best features, but that is largely because I lost fat and cycling keeps my legs nice and firm and "toned". I have a firm bubble butt, but that is largely genetic combined with squats, deadlifts, etc...maybe some cycling, but cycling and spin tends to engage the quads more than anything. My quads are always on fire after a good spin class, especially if we're out of the saddle a lot...my booty not so much.9 -
Nope. I've been spinning - though only twice a week - for over a decade. Lost weight about 5 years ago, turned out that I had a little muscle in other places (from rowing, not much from spin), but totally flat butt still. And that was from spinning at obese maintenance calories, not in a deficit (when, as cwolfman says, adding muscle is a low-probability proposition, especially for a woman). Haven't seen any booty gainz from spin in 4 years of maintenance since weight loss, either. Genetics.
Most women around here seem to want to increase glute size these day. (Me, I don't care one way or the other.)5 -
For a woman eating 1200cals the fear of excessive muscle growth shouldn't be a concern.
Go and look at the butts of serious female cyclists (I do this quite a lot!!
) and I think you will be reassured.
Enjoy your Spinning.12 -
Nope but it will toughen up so the seat doesn't hurt. LOL3
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I build muscle way too easily in my legs and butt! I was nervous. Thanks for the reassurances!3
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There's nothing wrong with a women with nice glutes and quads.4
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I haven't seen many of your posts. But I do enjoy the ones I've seen, and for some reason a lot of people take issue with you only eating 1200 calories.
Arnold Schwarzenegger has a quote where someone said to him that they don't want to lift like him because they don't want to look like him. His response is something to the effect of "don't worry, you never will."
I don't know if spinning will cause muscle gain in your glutes. What I do know is that if you are overweight, and you enjoy spinning as a method to assist you in your weight loss goals you should do it. If, at the end of your weight loss journey you decide your glutes are too strong (which personally would surprise me, but everyone has their own goals) you can simply stop spinning and take up some other activity. I think a lot of people will agree with me that it's not difficult to lose muscle.3 -
I beg to differ. Muscular glutes and thighs, even covered with a layer of fat look different. Firmer, more shapely. Give me a curvy bum over my own flattish bum any day!!! It’s all personal though.8 -
They do look different and they move differently. Embrace strong glutes, they look great! Currently in vogue as well, I'm guessing that's why uplifted bum implants are so popular.
I watch the younger lasses exercising in the gym, they definitely have more curve behind and on the thigh than lasses that don't. A curve is different to 'big'. They look powerful, confident and attractive.
PS I'm not a perve voyeur just observant
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I build muscle way too easily in my legs and butt! I was nervous. Thanks for the reassurances!
It's very doubtful that you build muscle easily. A female on a serious strength and conditioning program (think like a college athletics offseason) with proper nutrition can maybe gain a pound of muscle a month.
Although it's very worthwhile, most would not consider that way too easily.
Good luck.4 -
Spinning definitely has built muscles in my legs, not the butt,(other than sore saddle!) But I also incorporate weight training too.1
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No spin will not build your glutes. It will certainly build your quads! I love my muscular and strong legs and glutes....they take me far!!!3
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As someone who has had both fat and muscular legs and booties, this absolutely isn't true for me. Visually, there's a huge difference.3 -
I have an acquaintance that is really into CrossFit. She's not a thin girl. Her legs have become gigantic. I guess muscular with fat over the top? That is not a look that I personally want but YMMV.0
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Yeap, look like total fatties in those pants:
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Personally, that girls butt is not what I'm striving for. Just a personal opinion. It's ok to be different!2
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I have an acquaintance that is really into CrossFit. She's not a thin girl. Her legs have become gigantic. I guess muscular with fat over the top? That is not a look that I personally want but YMMV.
What does this have to do with spinning or a muscular booty looking exactly the same as a fat one?
Nobody is telling you that you have to want to look like a particular overweight Crossfitter.
But I don't think your plan is to retain your current level of body fat while taking up Crossfit, is it?2 -
Oh, just an example. If you don't lose the fat as quickly as you gain the muscle you could have unintended consequences like her.0
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janejellyroll wrote: »I have an acquaintance that is really into CrossFit. She's not a thin girl. Her legs have become gigantic. I guess muscular with fat over the top? That is not a look that I personally want but YMMV.
What does this have to do with spinning or a muscular booty looking exactly the same as a fat one?
Nobody is telling you that you have to want to look like a particular overweight Crossfitter.
But I don't think your plan is to retain your current level of body fat while taking up Crossfit, is it?
It does seem to me that some posts on the thread verge on questioning OP's personal preferred aesthetics for her own body, which I find . . . oddly traditional, if ya know what I mean.
She's talking about being active, so (I infer) not proposing to waste away in some totally unhealthful way. I can see questioning people who're proposing something that's objectively unhealthy, but I'm not seeing that here. Some people want bigger glutes, and some don't. The former is more common these days among young women, it seems; and that's fine.
I'd argue that it's a good thing for anyone to be reasonably strong, but it seems like there's a space where one can be adequately strong for a long and productive modern life, without being visibly muscular or "big".
(Speaking for myself, I prefer to be strong, and I don't mind if that means being more muscular, irrespective of what body part we're talking about. OP seems to have specific aesthetic preferences in that realm.)3 -
Oh, just an example. If you don't lose the fat as quickly as you gain the muscle you could have unintended consequences like her.
If you're in a deficit, you won't be adding muscle as quickly as you're dropping fat. Adding muscle is hard, especially for women. And building appreciable muscle mass requires excess calories.6 -
Personally, that girls butt is not what I'm striving for. Just a personal opinion. It's ok to be different!
Well on the plus side, you'd have probably 2 to 5 years of progressively increasing resistance volume to stop increasing if you didn't want to be there.
I'm not sure if I'd want to look like a Lee Priest, Lou Ferrigno, or Arnold, but I am sure I would not be willing to do (or more specifically take) what they have to get there. Yet there seems to be this impression people achieve that kind of stuff by touching a weight by accident in the gym or spending 10 minutes longer than intended on a treadmill.5 -
janejellyroll wrote: »I have an acquaintance that is really into CrossFit. She's not a thin girl. Her legs have become gigantic. I guess muscular with fat over the top? That is not a look that I personally want but YMMV.
What does this have to do with spinning or a muscular booty looking exactly the same as a fat one?
Nobody is telling you that you have to want to look like a particular overweight Crossfitter.
But I don't think your plan is to retain your current level of body fat while taking up Crossfit, is it?
It does seem to me that some posts on the thread verge on questioning OP's personal preferred aesthetics for her own body, which I find . . . oddly traditional, if ya know what I mean.
She's talking about being active, so (I infer) not proposing to waste away in some totally unhealthful way. I can see questioning people who're proposing something that's objectively unhealthy, but I'm not seeing that here. Some people want bigger glutes, and some don't. The former is more common these days among young women, it seems; and that's fine.
I'd argue that it's a good thing for anyone to be reasonably strong, but it seems like there's a space where one can be adequately strong for a long and productive modern life, without being visibly muscular or "big".
(Speaking for myself, I prefer to be strong, and I don't mind if that means being more muscular, irrespective of what body part we're talking about. OP seems to have specific aesthetic preferences in that realm.)
Thank you! I have done CrossFit in the past for several years. I was lifting heavy! I know what my lower half looks like muscular and I personally don't prefer it. There is a great divide over whether spin class increases butt size. Just Google it! An experienced, celebrity personal trainer actually advises her clients against it for that very reason. I was hoping to hear some friendly, personal anecdotes from the MFP community.1 -
Oh, just an example. If you don't lose the fat as quickly as you gain the muscle you could have unintended consequences like her.
Under ideal conditions, a woman might gain 1/4 pound a week of new muscle mass - that would be a really good result, for someone's who's trying to do that (without illegal performance-enhancing drugs). Those ideal conditions would include a well-designed progressive weight lifting program, favorable genetics, relative youth, good nutrition, and a calorie surplus, at least. In a calorie deficit, muscle gain results are very, very likely to be less.
On the flip side, half a pound a week is about the slowest reasonably observable rate of weight loss, and even then it wouldn't show up clearly (among most people's normal day to day water weight & digestive system contents' fluctuations on the body weight scale) in anything less than several weeks to a few months, and even then possibly only with a weight-trending app.
Your friend is doing Crossfit, which typically includes a good bit of challenging strength training. Spinning is not challenging strength training. If you've been very inactive in the past, you might find that your body firms up a bit from the spinning over quite a long period of time, but truly . . . you don't need to worry about it.
Muscle gain is very, very unlikely to happen by accident. It's always slow, so if you see it happening, you can back off your workouts (which I predict will be completely unnecessary).
While I was still obese, I gained some muscle at constant weight, by becoming very active. I got smaller, not bigger. That would be normal, at constant weight, for added muscle to make a person smaller. While losing weight, any reasonably likely muscle mass gain will not outpace any reasonable rate of weight loss.1 -
janejellyroll wrote: »I have an acquaintance that is really into CrossFit. She's not a thin girl. Her legs have become gigantic. I guess muscular with fat over the top? That is not a look that I personally want but YMMV.
What does this have to do with spinning or a muscular booty looking exactly the same as a fat one?
Nobody is telling you that you have to want to look like a particular overweight Crossfitter.
But I don't think your plan is to retain your current level of body fat while taking up Crossfit, is it?
It does seem to me that some posts on the thread verge on questioning OP's personal preferred aesthetics for her own body, which I find . . . oddly traditional, if ya know what I mean.
She's talking about being active, so (I infer) not proposing to waste away in some totally unhealthful way. I can see questioning people who're proposing something that's objectively unhealthy, but I'm not seeing that here. Some people want bigger glutes, and some don't. The former is more common these days among young women, it seems; and that's fine.
I'd argue that it's a good thing for anyone to be reasonably strong, but it seems like there's a space where one can be adequately strong for a long and productive modern life, without being visibly muscular or "big".
(Speaking for myself, I prefer to be strong, and I don't mind if that means being more muscular, irrespective of what body part we're talking about. OP seems to have specific aesthetic preferences in that realm.)
Thank you! I have done CrossFit in the past for several years. I was lifting heavy! I know what my lower half looks like muscular and I personally don't prefer it. There is a great divide over whether spin class increases butt size. Just Google it! An experienced, celebrity personal trainer actually advises her clients against it for that very reason. I was hoping to hear some friendly, personal anecdotes from the MFP community.
Don't worry you wont accidentally gain a booty. 🙄🙄4 -
Chef_Barbell wrote: »janejellyroll wrote: »I have an acquaintance that is really into CrossFit. She's not a thin girl. Her legs have become gigantic. I guess muscular with fat over the top? That is not a look that I personally want but YMMV.
What does this have to do with spinning or a muscular booty looking exactly the same as a fat one?
Nobody is telling you that you have to want to look like a particular overweight Crossfitter.
But I don't think your plan is to retain your current level of body fat while taking up Crossfit, is it?
It does seem to me that some posts on the thread verge on questioning OP's personal preferred aesthetics for her own body, which I find . . . oddly traditional, if ya know what I mean.
She's talking about being active, so (I infer) not proposing to waste away in some totally unhealthful way. I can see questioning people who're proposing something that's objectively unhealthy, but I'm not seeing that here. Some people want bigger glutes, and some don't. The former is more common these days among young women, it seems; and that's fine.
I'd argue that it's a good thing for anyone to be reasonably strong, but it seems like there's a space where one can be adequately strong for a long and productive modern life, without being visibly muscular or "big".
(Speaking for myself, I prefer to be strong, and I don't mind if that means being more muscular, irrespective of what body part we're talking about. OP seems to have specific aesthetic preferences in that realm.)
Thank you! I have done CrossFit in the past for several years. I was lifting heavy! I know what my lower half looks like muscular and I personally don't prefer it. There is a great divide over whether spin class increases butt size. Just Google it! An experienced, celebrity personal trainer actually advises her clients against it for that very reason. I was hoping to hear some friendly, personal anecdotes from the MFP community.
Don't worry you wont accidentally gain a booty. 🙄🙄
I don't need to do it by accident! I already have one and I hate it!0 -
Chef_Barbell wrote: »janejellyroll wrote: »I have an acquaintance that is really into CrossFit. She's not a thin girl. Her legs have become gigantic. I guess muscular with fat over the top? That is not a look that I personally want but YMMV.
What does this have to do with spinning or a muscular booty looking exactly the same as a fat one?
Nobody is telling you that you have to want to look like a particular overweight Crossfitter.
But I don't think your plan is to retain your current level of body fat while taking up Crossfit, is it?
It does seem to me that some posts on the thread verge on questioning OP's personal preferred aesthetics for her own body, which I find . . . oddly traditional, if ya know what I mean.
She's talking about being active, so (I infer) not proposing to waste away in some totally unhealthful way. I can see questioning people who're proposing something that's objectively unhealthy, but I'm not seeing that here. Some people want bigger glutes, and some don't. The former is more common these days among young women, it seems; and that's fine.
I'd argue that it's a good thing for anyone to be reasonably strong, but it seems like there's a space where one can be adequately strong for a long and productive modern life, without being visibly muscular or "big".
(Speaking for myself, I prefer to be strong, and I don't mind if that means being more muscular, irrespective of what body part we're talking about. OP seems to have specific aesthetic preferences in that realm.)
Thank you! I have done CrossFit in the past for several years. I was lifting heavy! I know what my lower half looks like muscular and I personally don't prefer it. There is a great divide over whether spin class increases butt size. Just Google it! An experienced, celebrity personal trainer actually advises her clients against it for that very reason. I was hoping to hear some friendly, personal anecdotes from the MFP community.
Don't worry you wont accidentally gain a booty. 🙄🙄
I don't need to do it by accident! I already have one and I hate it!
Atrophy is a thing. 🤷🏼♀️
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Lol, won't happen if I'm doing spin I guess 😋2
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