exercise for hourglass shape
izabella73
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hi:) can you recomend any special exercise to help ahieve hourgass shape?
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You cannot spot reduce nor change your shape. The best thing to do is to remove the layers of fat and see what is under them. You may have an hour glass shape
Eat less, move more and add a progressive lifting program. You can do this!0 -
It's genetic. Get to your goal weight and discover your shape.0
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There is something that comes to mind, when women talk about getting hourglass shapes in this fashion, but it was, and is still, neither safe nor healthy. ::winces, as if in pain, at the thought:: And it's not exactly an exercise but there is some sort of training involved.0
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thanks girls
I gues I need to be stronger and more patient :X
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If only...0
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Actually, I think there might be a way to achieve this - strength training. It can help you get nice hips and thighs with curves in all the right places, it flattens your stomach and you get a wide, muscular upper back, giving you the illusion of a smaller waist.
If you do a proper training program, it should be safe and with proper nutrition, adapted to your goals, the curves you get should be mainly muscles so it should be healthy too.
This will need lost of time, hard work and dedication, but if this is your dream, don't give up!0 -
Eh, you can optimize your overall look with strength training but a ruler isn't going to turn into an hourglass with it.
Hip and thigh curves -- training can help you have strong and smooth looking hips/thighs. Building muscle will come down to eating more but even then you're not necessarily going to be physically wider when faced head on, to help create an actual hourglass. My hip measurement has increased 1.5" thanks to training but it's all out the back, not side to side across the front, due to how my body distributes fat.
Flat stomach - hello fat loss
Wide back -yes, can be bu I let with training and proper nutrition. Not sure of limits due to one's natural body shape (are pear shaped women apt to build their backs as well as other women, given equivalent nutrition/training?)0 -
Strength training will get you there. If you are concerned about the waist, do exercises that target the obliques.0
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Body shape is genetic. But lose fat and see. You may be very pleased. Strength training helps reduce fat while retaining muscle. But you MUST eat at a calorie deficit to lose weight or fat. It takes time, so be patient.0
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You'll get more fit and conditioned, but exercising an area won't change one's natural shape. If their body is pear shaped, it's still going to be pear shaped regardless of targeting areas.Strength training will get you there. If you are concerned about the waist, do exercises that target the obliques.
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You can only enhance the shape you currently have. If you don't have an hourglass figure, then barring surgery, you're not going to have one by exercising or workouts that help to "target" it.
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What if you have been strength training for 4 year (Do Body Pump 3 days a week) and cycle class and cannot get rid of the new "Tire" that has appeared due to menopause at 38yrs old!0
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Have you been eating at a calorie deficit? No matter how much exercise you do, if you are not eating at a calorie deficit you will not lose weight. I am 55 and menopausal and lose weight steadily if I am eating at a deficit...even around my middle.0
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anitamlang wrote: »What if you have been strength training for 4 year (Do Body Pump 3 days a week) and cycle class and cannot get rid of the new "Tire" that has appeared due to menopause at 38yrs old!
Cut your calories. Your tire is made of fat. Fat doesn't appear out of nowhere. Your body needed the building blocks to make it and those building blocks were excess calories. To get rid of it you need to give your body fewer calories so that it turns to your fat storage for its energy needs.
You don't gain weight directly due to menopause. It is possible that your body's energy needs decreased due to menopause, though, and continuing to give it pre-menopausal levels of energy (food) is what caused fat gain.0 -
Body shapes are a myth. Our bodies aren't designed to carry extra weight on our bottom half, eg, which is what the so-called pear shape is. I used to think I am a pear shape, but after an 8kg weight loss, I realise my hips are much narrower than what I thought.0
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manage your calories and lift weights.. You will love the change!
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Body shapes are a myth. Our bodies aren't designed to carry extra weight on our bottom half, eg, which is what the so-called pear shape is. I used to think I am a pear shape, but after an 8kg weight loss, I realise my hips are much narrower than what I thought.
You're absolutely right. We are all the same shape with the same proportions. All 7 billion of us.0 -
queenliz99 wrote: »You cannot spot reduce nor change your shape. The best thing to do is to remove the layers of fat and see what is under them. You may have an hour glass shape
Eat less, move more and add a progressive lifting program. You can do this!
^This.Body shape is genetic. But lose fat and see. You may be very pleased. Strength training helps reduce fat while retaining muscle. But you MUST eat at a calorie deficit to lose weight or fat. It takes time, so be patient.
^This.
You can stop reading now. They got you covered.0 -
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As someone who likes drawing people and studied a bit of human anatomy to aid in this drawing - some of it can be changed with weight loss and body building. But a lot of it boils down to the shape/proportions of your skeleton which is, as others said, not changeable.0
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Body shapes are a myth. Our bodies aren't designed to carry extra weight on our bottom half, eg, which is what the so-called pear shape is. I used to think I am a pear shape, but after an 8kg weight loss, I realise my hips are much narrower than what I thought.
You're absolutely right. We are all the same shape with the same proportions. All 7 billion of us.
I for instance am the same shape as ninerbuff
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Also Elle McPherson
And Helen Mirren
And Audrey Hepburn
Peas in a pod0 -
izabella73 wrote: »hi:) can you recomend any special exercise to help ahieve hourgass shape?
You won't change your genetics but look at Brett Contreras Strong Curves0 -
Body shapes are a myth. Our bodies aren't designed to carry extra weight on our bottom half, eg, which is what the so-called pear shape is. I used to think I am a pear shape, but after an 8kg weight loss, I realise my hips are much narrower than what I thought.
You're absolutely right. We are all the same shape with the same proportions. All 7 billion of us.
I for instance am the same shape as ninerbuff
:bigsmile:
And I have been mistaken for both Danny Devito and Larry Bird. Plus sometimes Sofia Vergara but that's usually when I wear my hair down.0 -
Body shapes are a myth. Our bodies aren't designed to carry extra weight on our bottom half, eg, which is what the so-called pear shape is. I used to think I am a pear shape, but after an 8kg weight loss, I realise my hips are much narrower than what I thought.
You are welcome to share that 'not built to carry weight on the bottom half' insight with my lower body, because even at BMI 17 my hips remained 1-2 sizes larger than my skinny waist and bony shoulders.
Losing a bit of body fat and focusing on resistance training to help build a bit of muscle below the waist did wonders for how I perceived my pear shape, OP. Trying to make my body as healthy and fit as it could be took away a lot of the feelings of inadequacy and I can now honestly say I'm proud of my proportionately big thighs.0 -
Body shapes are a myth. Our bodies aren't designed to carry extra weight on our bottom half, eg, which is what the so-called pear shape is. I used to think I am a pear shape, but after an 8kg weight loss, I realise my hips are much narrower than what I thought.
Somatotypes are a myth. Genetic differences in body shapes are an entirely different and very real thing.0 -
I'm slightly more pear than hourglass, and I've found building shoulders (deltoids, specifically) pretty effective for making me visually look more like an hourglass. Chest and back are good, too, but shoulders are great.0
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What about for the look of your breasts? Can't all be about dat butt.0
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Body shapes are a myth. Our bodies aren't designed to carry extra weight on our bottom half, eg, which is what the so-called pear shape is. I used to think I am a pear shape, but after an 8kg weight loss, I realise my hips are much narrower than what I thought.
Somatotypes are a myth. Genetic differences in body shapes are an entirely different and very real thing.
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