Women who balanced out Apple shape with lifting?

Pics would be awesome because I am Apple shaped

I am also Apple shaped - but I thought to balance yourself out by lifting you would need to build your upper body more - then hips and thighs would be more in proportion??

It can make a change. Lets ignore skeleton, ok? Some people preferably store fat in their tummy region, others on their hips and thighs. But if they lose weight they also lose weight there. It might take longer as there's more to lose, but they lose. Hey, I always thought it was a pear. Once I lost weight it turned out I'm more of a y as I have naturally wide shoulders, and suddenly my hips were narrower than the shoulders. It will be slow, but if you build muscles on your shoulders, thighs and bum then this might even out a bit, but fat loss is the key if you're not happy with not a very visible waist.

callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »

your body shape is its shape. If there is excess fat creating a bigger shape, eat at a deficit to lose that fat. bone structure and how you carry weight can not be changed. Lifting weights can make a LITTLE difference, but unless you go into heavy competitive body building, its not going to make MAJOR differences, in and of itself.

While where someone carries weight (fat) cannot be changed, a person definitely has more control over their shape than you think, and no, it doesn’t require “heavy competitive body building.” It simply requires recomposition by progressively overloading the muscles you wish to grow in order to accentuate certain parts of your body. For example, you can broaden your shoulders/lats and build your quads/glutes/hamstrings to make your waist appear smaller. Look up some transformations just from lifting, there are some pretty amazing ones. Losing weight and ending up unhappy with your body shape doesn’t have to be the end all be all.

callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »

your body shape is its shape. If there is excess fat creating a bigger shape, eat at a deficit to lose that fat. bone structure and how you carry weight can not be changed. Lifting weights can make a LITTLE difference, but unless you go into heavy competitive body building, its not going to make MAJOR differences, in and of itself.

dissagree. Im a pear shape, i carry all my fat on my large hips, bum and thighs. Almost zero on upper body so for me, building some muscle on the top half has really helped to balance out the look of my body. I only do body weight exercise too, i dont lift heavy. Its made a really big difference

I'm apple shaped and lift. It has helped me to better my physique but it's never going to lead my fat distribution to change--any fat gains tend to mean my abdominal fat increases more than fat elsewhere. Lifting isn't going to make your hips noticeably wider as the muscles on the sides of your glutes are smaller and less easy to grow in comparison to those on your backside. If you can get past the idea of wanting to actually change the shape that your body tends toward, you can improve and maximize what you have--build nice glutes, take advantage of what is already a likely tendency toward nice legs, strong shoulders, etc. Keep in mind that all of that is within the context of being at a healthy/reasonable body fat level (i.e., not overfat but you also don't need to be extremely lean.)