Exercises; Pear shaped women? Anybody?

Strength training can help tone your bottom half. Diet and exercise in general will help reduce the size. Genetics will also play a role. I'm pear shaped and even when I was 125 pounds and exercised every day and dieted.. I still had chunky butt and thighs.

Calorie deficits help you lose weight. Exercises help make you strong and healthy. Take advantage of being a pear--I'm one (as you can see in my pics) and my lower body strength training is coming along way faster than upper body. Don't neglect your upper body.

This! I can squat and deadlift more than twice as much as I can bench and overhead press.

Running hills, hiit and strength training have evened out my pear shape quite a bit. Before/Later pic in profile.

I'm currently 32, 27, 37. Being a pear can be very frustrating. My small upper body bone frame and proclivity to gain weight in my lower half makes me feel like I look disproportionate. Especially since women's fashion (especially stuff geared towards 20-somethings) seems to be made for ladies with a more boyish figure (read: small hip-to-waist ratio.)

I will probably always be pear-shaped, given that I have a wide pelvis. I have learned to accept this shape (in fact, apparently having wide hips makes you more attractive to men on a biological level!) and work with what I can change (body fat % and muscle tone.)

I didn't start dropping weight in my lower half (especially my much hated muffin tops) until I completely changed my diet and started doing yoga, cardio and weight training. I think the diet aspect is super important. I cut out soda, empty calories and drastically reduced my sugar intake. I also try to actually cook my own food instead of eating processed junk. I've recently seen a lot of success with eating at a calorie deficit (1200/day.)

As far as workouts, I highly suggest p90x or p90x3 (only 30 minutes a day!). It kind of covers all of your bases with cardio, strength training and yoga. If you are more of a gym person, definitely don't neglect weights! I made the mistake before of only focusing on cardio to combat the lower body fat. You will see the fastest results when you do a combination of cardio and weights. It's also worth noting that I found working on my upper body helped draw attention away from my hips and gave me a more balanced look.

I do zumba, walking, and eating foods that are not processed. Foods that are processed seem to go straight to fat because the body doesn't recognize it so it stores it. I keep an eye on my heart rate during exercise to make sure I stay in the fat burn zone. Hope this helps. "Nothing dared, nothing gained. Never give up. EACH day is a new day.

I do zumba, walking, and eating foods that are not processed. Foods that are processed seem to go straight to fat because the body doesn't recognize it so it stores it. I keep an eye on my heart rate during exercise to make sure I stay in the fat burn zone. Hope this helps. "Nothing dared, nothing gained. Never give up. EACH day is a new day.

The bolder sentence above is absolutely not true. Furthermore there's little reason to keep your heart rate in the "fat burn zone". At the end of the day, overall calories burned is what matter for fat loss, not what heart rate you exercise in.

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I suggest focusing on cardio and building muscle on your upper body. Building more muscle on your arms/shoulders/etc will help visually balance out your lower body, and cardio will help you slim overall.

I can only speak for myself but I do the same workouts as women of all the other shapes. No special pear workouts are needed.

My grandmother weighed 75 pounds when she died and she was still pear shaped. A little tiny shriveled pear, but still a pear. Alas, I inherited her body type. I decided years ago that pears are lovely fruits and I'm going to be the juiciest, most delicious damn pear I can be!