Can I build a booty without weights?

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!
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  • fb47
    fb47 Posts: 1,058 Member
    edited February 2018
    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.
  • hotmamma2016
    hotmamma2016 Posts: 5 Member
    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.
  • frankiesgirlie
    frankiesgirlie Posts: 669 Member
    @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.
  • Silkysausage
    Silkysausage Posts: 502 Member
    Firm up your *kitten* using bands and floor exercises but there'll be no bubble butt...
  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,179 Member
    bbell1985 wrote: »
    JaydedMiss wrote: »
    Possibly.
    Impossible with calorie surplus.

    you mean deficit

    He means surplus.

    Y'all figure this out, ok?
  • sardelsa
    sardelsa Posts: 9,812 Member
    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
  • J_Fairfax
    J_Fairfax Posts: 57 Member
    edited February 2018
    timj2018 wrote: »
    timj2018 wrote: »
    Yes, do three hundred body squats every morning. No breaks until the last rep

    Is this a joke

    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.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,988 Member
    timj2018 wrote: »
    Yes, do three hundred body squats every morning. No breaks until the last rep
    No, that builds "muscular endurance". To put on muscle size, you need PROGRESSIVE OVERLOAD and doing air squats ain't gonna achieve that.

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  • klrenn
    klrenn Posts: 245 Member
    sardelsa 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
    sardelsa 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.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,988 Member
    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.
    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.


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  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,988 Member
    klrenn wrote: »
    sardelsa 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
    sardelsa 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.
    You do realize that if one GAINS weight, they are moving more resistance? That's progressive overload.

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  • klrenn
    klrenn Posts: 245 Member
    edited February 2018
    ninerbuff wrote: »
    klrenn wrote: »
    sardelsa 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
    sardelsa 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.
    You do realize that if one GAINS weight, they are moving more resistance? That's progressive overload.

    A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
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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.

    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.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,988 Member
    klrenn wrote: »
    ninerbuff wrote: »
    klrenn wrote: »
    sardelsa 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
    sardelsa 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.
    You do realize that if one GAINS weight, they are moving more resistance? That's progressive overload.

    A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
    IDEA Fitness member
    Kickboxing Certified Instructor
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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.
    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.
    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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  • mom23mangos
    mom23mangos Posts: 3,069 Member
    klrenn wrote: »
    ninerbuff wrote: »
    klrenn wrote: »
    sardelsa 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
    sardelsa 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.
    You do realize that if one GAINS weight, they are moving more resistance? That's progressive overload.

    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

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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.

    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.

  • 1961dnance1961
    1961dnance1961 Posts: 3 Member
    Tia98Jade wrote: »
    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 Bridges
  • 1961dnance1961
    1961dnance1961 Posts: 3 Member
    Try glute Bridges
  • Atmc1
    Atmc1 Posts: 18 Member
    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.
  • GiddyupTim
    GiddyupTim Posts: 2,819 Member
    ninerbuff wrote: »
    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.
    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.


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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!
  • AnvilHead
    AnvilHead Posts: 18,343 Member
    GiddyupTim wrote: »
    ninerbuff wrote: »
    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.
    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.


    A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
    IDEA Fitness member
    Kickboxing Certified Instructor
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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!

    And you honestly believe those gymnasts don't spend any time in the weight room?