Ladies. Want to work your thighs, hips and butt?

Rae6503
Rae6503 Posts: 6,294 Member
edited November 11 in Fitness and Exercise
I encourage you to do heavy squats as deep as you can go. I just pushed myself to go as deep as possible with my squats (had to lower my weight) Monday. The inner thighs, hips and butt are REALLY feeling it today. *kitten* to grass baby!
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  • infamousmk
    infamousmk Posts: 6,033 Member
    And this will help me maintain my round, sexy behind, correct??
  • stacymama5
    stacymama5 Posts: 391 Member
    Good advice! I'll try it until my knees give out.....lol
  • Rae6503
    Rae6503 Posts: 6,294 Member
    And this will help me maintain my round, sexy behind, correct??

    Yes Ma-am. Might even make it rounder AND sexier.
  • addisondisease2
    addisondisease2 Posts: 348 Member
    And this will help me maintain my round, sexy behind, correct??

    You should cos-play as link... or zelda could be good either way
  • Shizzman
    Shizzman Posts: 527 Member
    Not only round/sexy, but lifted too!

    Also the Link/Zelda idea seems solid...
  • Coco_Puff
    Coco_Puff Posts: 823 Member
    Thanks!!! I'm gonna try it!!!! Burn baby burn!!!
  • Picola1984
    Picola1984 Posts: 1,133
    I've been incorporating deep lunges with weights for a couple of weeks now and noticed an improvement that cardio alone never gave me

    I'm too shy to do squats in public though :(

    I always think I look like I'm going to do a poop
  • snkeller24
    snkeller24 Posts: 459
    Squats are the best thing you could do. Make sure you can do a squat with just your body properly. Then start adding a bar then weights.

    Learn to do back and front squats (they work your muscles differently). When you get more advance do overhead squats.
  • xtina
    xtina Posts: 16 Member
    Good idea! I will do this at the gym next time!
  • rammsteinsoldier
    rammsteinsoldier Posts: 1,552 Member
    Two knee surgeries later, there is a limit to how deep I can go. :(
  • arielkaylou
    arielkaylou Posts: 85 Member
    There's a new program out by Beachbody called Brazilian Butt Lift. I am doing Insanity and BBL still kicks my butt and it's really starting to work with my butt, and legs :)
  • IMYarnCraz33
    IMYarnCraz33 Posts: 1,016 Member
    this is all well & fine just remember your knees SHOULD NOT go out past your toes. =]
  • skywa
    skywa Posts: 901 Member
    squats are the way to go :P
  • Ely82010
    Ely82010 Posts: 1,998 Member
    Two knee surgeries later, there is a limit to how deep I can go. :(

    I know the feeling!!

    I didn't have knee surgery but I do have crappy knees so I can't go too low either. My PT and the orthopedic doctor told me to squat like I am going to seat in a chair (sticking the but out), and to lift the toes to put the weight on the heels so the knees will stay behind the toes.

    We do what we can whith what we have.:ohwell:
  • Rae6503
    Rae6503 Posts: 6,294 Member
    "half squating" can be worse for your knees then going deep.

    http://articles.elitefts.com/articles/training-articles/why-the-hell-would-i-want-to-half-squat/
  • k8blujay2
    k8blujay2 Posts: 4,941 Member
    Not really... but if I don't I have the jelly effect and let's face, that just ain't sexy.. :wink:
  • danicamper
    danicamper Posts: 44
    Is anyone brave enough to post a video of proper technique? I'm concerned I'm not doing it properly
  • k8blujay2
    k8blujay2 Posts: 4,941 Member
    "half squating" can be worse for your knees then going deep.

    http://articles.elitefts.com/articles/training-articles/why-the-hell-would-i-want-to-half-squat/

    If I don't do a full squat I don't even feel it in my backside... then the squat is pointless... :ohwell:
  • Rae6503
    Rae6503 Posts: 6,294 Member
    As close to this baby as possible. :happy:

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/505410-bro-you-re-gonna-hurt-your-knees-squatting-that-low
  • Dave198lbs
    Dave198lbs Posts: 8,810 Member
    I encourage you to do heavy squats as deep as you can go.

    if you are new to weight lifitng , take this advice very very cautiously
  • Rae6503
    Rae6503 Posts: 6,294 Member
    I encourage you to do heavy squats as deep as you can go.

    if you are new to weight lifitng , take this advice very very cautiously

    So true. Sometimes I get a little excited. This is probably the best way to do it:
    Squats are the best thing you could do. Make sure you can do a squat with just your body properly. Then start adding a bar then weights.
  • Ely82010
    Ely82010 Posts: 1,998 Member
    "half squating" can be worse for your knees then going deep.

    http://articles.elitefts.com/articles/training-articles/why-the-hell-would-i-want-to-half-squat/

    Thank you, I read the article and I was aware of some of the problems with half squatting. However, the dude in the article is writing about power squatting with heavy weights, which is something that I don't do.

    If I were to squat deep (with or without weight), I would be in that same position until my knees completing give up or a cute paramedic comes to my rescue.
  • Picola1984
    Picola1984 Posts: 1,133
    I did some weighted squats this morning in the gym, and I have felt it all day at work!

    Will definitely carry on now I've plucked up the courage lol
  • mandasimba
    mandasimba Posts: 782 Member
    Love it, and you are one of my mfp idols, rae! Love my squats, alas, I'm painfully unflexible and my big ol belly gets in the way of going atg. I try and get lower every time I do them!
  • EmmaGFree
    EmmaGFree Posts: 19 Member
    Hi Squatters....

    After a year with no exercise except walking (my baby is now 4 months) I went to a circuit training group two days ago. I did all the lowest reps and lowest intensity options, obivously was totally exhausted... but the next day my thighs ACHED (think it was the squats), it is now 48 hours and my thighs are sore to the touch (well gentle squeeze). I have thigh wobble decending stairs and am clutching the bannisters like an eighty year old.

    I'm stretching and stretching, I did warm up beforehand too.

    Now, is this normal healthy pain, I should suck it up, exercise again and work through wobbles? Or should I allow my shocked thighs to recover before slugging them again?
  • secretlobster
    secretlobster Posts: 3,566 Member
    Oh yeah. There is NOTHING that burns quite like a great set of squats and lunges.
  • ninkira1
    ninkira1 Posts: 31 Member
    Yes m'am! Squatts it will be!! :D
  • ninkira1
    ninkira1 Posts: 31 Member
    Emma- I've read in a lot of muscle building/toning articles that you should wait anywhere between a full 24 hours to 48 hours before giving that same muscle grouping another thrashing- enough time for the muscle to recover and start to build up so it isn't in 'recovery' mode all of the time.
  • jskaggs1971
    jskaggs1971 Posts: 371 Member
    Emma:

    That sounds pretty normal. First time I got back under a barbell in a long time, the same thing happened to me. I gave myself a couple of days of light work (I think I ran 5 k one or two of them) until my quads felt mostly recovered, then got back into it.

    The good thing is, if you keep it up, the post-workout soreness goes away pretty quickly.
  • LaviMc
    LaviMc Posts: 355 Member
    How many sets/reps to you guys suggest???
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