Maybe you ladies can help me. I keep hearing two conflicting things about doing squats- that it will make your butt bigger and more firm, or that it will make your butt shrink. Are either of these things true in anyones experience?
Maybe you ladies can help me. I keep hearing two conflicting things about doing squats- that it will make your butt bigger and more firm, or that it will make your butt shrink. Are either of these things true in anyones experience?
Squats can tone the muscles or increase their size, depending on the positioning, weights, and reps. Building lean muscle mass increases your metabolism, and the body's fat burning ability. Also, genetic predisposition has a lot to do with it.
For me personally, my ass shrinks initially, then begins to appear higher, and more rounded. But its smaller all around. So, there is no exact answer here, it can be either, or both.
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Originally Posted by Mia M




My butt is the same size, but much rounder and firmer as a result of squats.
When I started dong squats and lunges my butt got tighter and higher...but not really smaller. It LOOKED smaller because it wasnt so saggy and flabby anymore though
It really depends.
Weight lifting burns fat. If your butt is BIG (fat-wise) then when you do squats, it will burn fat, but make the butt higher and rounder. (So it will look smaller, but better)
If you have a small butt, building the muscle will make it rounder and make it look more plump.
Make sense?





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My butt gets smaller but rounder and higher! it also depends on how much weight and reps your doing. If you want to increase size, squat with heavy weights and low reps.
Squats and hard work will not give you a big ass they will devlop it into a firm and tight thing to be nibbled on.
Sitting on a treadmill walking and consuming krispy kreames will give you a big ass.
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Common misconception.
To produce hypertrophy (growth) you need to cause as much protein degradation in the muscle as possible this is done through a pay off between load (weight) and volume (reps) and is typically in weights that you can perform for 8-12 reps (70-85% 1RM).
For ladies you need to watch the volume and quick rest periods because lactate has been shown to be the main trigger for Human Growth Hormone (HGH) and it is HGH that is the main endocrine marker for increased muscle gorwth in women.
So in essence no low reps and high weights do not lead to bigger muscles higher loads tend to lead to neuromuscular adaptations and any structural changes tend to be in the myosin (contractile proteins) that lead to a smaller increase in size than sacromere hypertrophy (think high volume training).
Need an example look at the bodies of olympic weight lifters and gymnasts who train at extremely high loads and low volume and contrast them to bodybuilders who train at high volume and moderate intensity.
"To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy."
^^^ Can you put that in laymen's terms?
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Hypertrophy: growth in cross-sectional size (area) of a muscle. Generally, this involves heavier weights with moderate repetitions (i.e. 8-12). Rest periods are short (30-60 seconds between sets) and the total amount of weight lifted is high.
1RM: One Repetition Maximum. The highest amount of weight you can safely lift and complete the exercise through a full range of motion.
ladies: what 1940's mobsters from New Jersey call women.
lactate: a byproduct that builds up when you exert yourself to the point where your cells can't get enough oxygen for consuming sugars. Usually the main source of acute muscle soreness (quick onset, goes away in a day or two) and a stimulus that promotes the development of muscles and the blood vessels needed to support them. (That's a huge simplification, but close enough for people who don't need to have the 3D structure of Glyceraldehyde 3-Phosphate memorized)
gorwth: Giant Monster Attacking Tokyo in "Destroy All Monsters".
Neuromuscular Adaptations: Part of getting stronger is teaching your brain how to lift that freakin' heavy thing. This part of adaptation usually occurs within the first 4-6 weeks of a training program. Once your brain gets that down, then your muscles start adapting to the exercise, leading to greater endurance and hypertrophy.
Myosin: Your muscles are just squishy cables that do one thing- contract. The cables are made of bundles of cells that are filled with two proteins, actin and myosin, which work together to make things contract.
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Hope this helps.





he said that to make your muscles get bigger, you should max out by about 12 reps. Increase your weight load accordingly so you max out at about 8-12 reps. Don't rest for too long in between sets. This allows lactate to accumulate which stimulates human growth hormone which in turn --> increased muscle size. Then he starts going into the intracellular workings of the muscle fibers which describes the theory of hypertrophy - that the existing cells get bigger (not to be confused with muscle hyperplasia - that new cells are created)
I have been concentrating on my butt and upper legs for the past 3 weeks and I can tell you that from *my* experience the lunges and squats that I've been doing have made it bigger. I can barely get my fave pair of jeans on now. Both the butt and thighs are really really tight, and one of my coworkers told me this morning that I have a butt now hehe. I've also been doing a lot more intensive cardio that targets that area as well and it's a lot firmer than it was before I started doing them hard and heavy. I like having my butt back up where it belongs though so I'm not complaining![]()
^^^ what cardio are you doing?
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I'm gonna try the treadmill walking and krispy kreme donut method. I'm glad I read this before doing those squats! Lol.
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my booty has its own personality. I does what ever it wants whether I loose or gain weight. I have no control over it.
Sorry, haven't been able to get on in a few days. I use the eliptical all the time but the program I'm using now on it is for weight loss but it targets the quads and glutes. It goes for 4 minutes at 4 incline and 1 tension then jumps to 10 incline and 8 tension for 4 minutes of hell, then back and forth for 28 minutes. I keep the strides per minute at 200 on the easy part and between 180 and 190 for the hard part. Butt hurts bad afterwards![]()





My friend told me she got a butt (she was originally flat) by doing 40 squats on her tip toes. I tried it..and boy was my ass sore for like 3 days straight. Last night, I wasn't in the mood to be on my tip toes, so I put on my 7in heels and did my 40 squats. I literally had parts of my ass hurting that I'd NEVER felt before..
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YAY for squats! My ass got bigger and rounder since I first started doing them over 3 years ago.I seriously had almost no ass before. Asian-Flat-Ass-Syndrome.
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