Building up the Booty

iluvprettyshoes
iluvprettyshoes Posts: 605 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Any advice for building up the booty muscles to make it bigger? I thought I'd seen something on it here recently but now I can't find it so I apologize if it's a repeat.

I'm doing squats, lunges, hamstring curls. Needing some others- Thank you!

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  • MoveTheMountain
    MoveTheMountain Posts: 764
    There are a few yoga poses that might help, but you seem to have the major glute exercises covered. Lunges (and reverse lunges, single leg lunges/squats) are the big ones. I can't think of anything that will work those muscles harder than what you're doing now... But anything that lifts the leg to the rear will help with that - you'll often see downward dog (yoga) modified by pushing one of the legs back and up toward the sky - that will also help get you there.

    Honestly, I doub the hamstring curls are doing much for you in this regard, but the lunges, deadlifts, and squats, absolutely.

    Best of luck!
  • row_rivers
    row_rivers Posts: 92 Member
    add some deadlifts in there! i found that my butt measurements have gone up while my tummy measurements have gone down due to some squats, deadlifts, and bridges. i started all of them at the same time, so i don't actually know which one to blame!

    oh and don't afraid to go heavy (once you have the technique down) for the squats and deadlifts. start off with just the bar for maybe 3x15 for a week or two, and from there keep increasing the weight and go for lower reps. and really challenge yourself!
  • meshashesha2012
    meshashesha2012 Posts: 8,329 Member
    squats, deadlifts and lunges should be good. make sure on the squats you are going post parallel. the lower you go the more you work the butt hips and hams
  • up2me2lose20
    up2me2lose20 Posts: 360 Member
    All the suggested exercises are great. Throw in some split squats or bulgarian split squats with the rear leg elevated. Try some jump lunges. Single leg squats are great too as are single leg deadlifts and single leg ball curl in's. Just concentrate on squeezing the glutes and hamstrings. Add weights to make everything mean that much more!
  • MoveTheMountain
    MoveTheMountain Posts: 764
    add some deadlifts in there! i found that my butt measurements have gone up while my tummy measurements have gone down due to some squats, deadlifts, and bridges. i started all of them at the same time, so i don't actually know which one to blame!

    oh and don't afraid to go heavy (once you have the technique down) for the squats and deadlifts. start off with just the bar for maybe 3x15 for a week or two, and from there keep increasing the weight and go for lower reps. and really challenge yourself!

    How did I forget Bridge pose in yoga? Sheesh! Also Wheel/upward Bow. Split squats, too - I saw someone else mentioned them above.
  • iluvprettyshoes
    iluvprettyshoes Posts: 605 Member
    thank you for all the info! I am doing deadlifts too and love them! The majority of the rest of the exercises mentioned I will have to google! Not familiar with some of them!
  • MoveTheMountain
    MoveTheMountain Posts: 764
    thank you for all the info! I am doing deadlifts too and love them! The majority of the rest of the exercises mentioned I will have to google! Not familiar with some of them!

    For the yoga poses, this is the best place to start:

    http://www.yogajournal.com/poses/finder/browse_categories

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