Pear/Hour Glass Shape Workouts

emuff7715

I'm a 5'9" with 38-31-49.5 measurements. I love my pear shape (which more like an hour glass as I have wide shoulders). I'm a trail runner who lifts (5-10 lb), squats, and jumps rope occasionally. I try to limit the jump rope as it's such high impact to pair with the running, and I want to spare my joints as much as I can. I want to keep my shape because it's distinct and I feel healthy, strong, and beautiful with it. What other workouts should I incorporate into my lifestyle to better emphasize my shape?

smarieallen85

I don't know. I'm a pear too, though it's less extreme now since I only lost an inch in my waist and 3 in my hips. Your shape will stay with you. I suggest heavier weight (barbell) squats and deadlifts to keep the booty you will always have and want looking toned.

k8eekins

emuff7715: I'm a 5'9" with 38-31-49.5 measurements. I love my pear shape (which more like an hour glass as I have wide shoulders). I'm a trail runner who lifts (5-10 lb), squats, and jumps rope occasionally. I try to limit the jump rope as it's such high impact to pair with the running, and I want to spare my joints as much as I can. I want to keep my shape because it's distinct and I feel healthy, strong, and beautiful with it. What other workouts should I incorporate into my lifestyle to better emphasize my shape?

Your workout combos look okay but I'd be lying if I didn't share that I do have an issue with your cited 5 -10 lb weights. If I were you, in your shoes, i would be vigilant with how i'd adhere to my calories-in, at a deficit, to maintain a steady weight loss, regardless of exercise.

So when you say, your desire is to retain your curves, how much smaller would you ideally like your waist, hips/buttocks to be? You're tall so when you look at your buttocks, how much of it - a percentage do you think is excess fat?

To emphasise your shape I can only recommend http://bretcontreras.com/category/glute-training/ and possibly http://stronglifts.com/5x5/ or http://www.thenewrulesoflifting.com/nrol-for-women

Best of luck!

ana3067

You do the same exercises/workouts that someone who is an apple, ruler, hourglass, triangle, octagon, whatever other effing shape they come up with, will do. You can't spot reduce, and unless you are trying to build up muscle in a specific area then there is no need to try and tailor exercise to your body shape.

Since you're working on losing weight, simply lift heavy (5-10lbs doesn't cut it unless that is literally all you can lift for 5 reps max and it's actually a lot of work to get to 5 reps) and eat lots of protein, do a proper compound full-body workout (can do it 3x a week or have an upper and lower body day split for 4x a week workouts - upper, lower, rest, upper, lower, rest, rest). Assuming your shape is due to your bone structure and muscular build, it will still be there when you lose fat. If it's a shape due to carrying too much body fat, then simply embrace what you wind up with and work on increasing msucular size once you're in a caloric surplus and doing hypertrophy training (alone or with strength training)