Those who have tried to exercise their butts and get it in shape will know that it is an uphill challenge. The sheer effort that is required for getting sustainable gains in your butt area are very big in comparison to other parts of your body. It can be said that the gains are almost disproportional to the results that you gain. Those who are in the know will understand and learn to accept this but many still think they can achieve great results without the hard work.
To make matters worst is how the general public is fed so much disinformation about butt exercises that it is borderline a joke. So many health and fitness magazines and even some accredited health journals will tell you that exercising your butt is something that you can easily do. Some will even try to sell your products or services which can "guarantee" results without as much as a sweat. As you may have imagined, all of this is utter bull crap. We will attempt to list a few of the common myths and misinformation that is floating around and to set your expectations straight below.
As indicated above one of the greatest myths is that you can get good results even if you don't put in a lot of effort, or that you can get good results with little effort if you follow a certain routine or use a certain product that is being marketed to you. The simple truth is that you will not be able to gain any substantial change if you don't put in enough effort. By enough I mean a lot more effort than you think you can muster up even now. The muscles in the butt area are some of the strongest and most resilient muscles in the body. They play a pivotal role in the keeping the body upright and helping us in our mobility. It is because of this strength and resilience that extra effort is required for sustainable change.
Another myth that is commonly heard is that you can "tone" your butt muscles with resistance butt exercise with weights that are very light. For some reason or another there is so much hype about toning muscles or even lengthening muscles while not building bulk by using light weights in your resistance workouts. The problem is that muscles only respond to building themselves when they are subjected to work that they aren't used too. This means that if you continue with light weights even with high reps, you will not get the results you are looking for. The only way that you can build strength, build muscle and increase tone is by progressing to heavier and heavier weights, building resistance continuously over time until you reach a point where you are happy with the strength and tone then maintain that weight to keep the tone intact.
Another terrible myth is that you can actually spot reduce the fat on your butt. There are so many advertisements and products that claim that it can do this; they are all lies. There is no way that you can work your butt muscles in such a way that it will draw the fat from the butt. The two systems are quite independent of each other. The only way you can reduce the amount of fat on your butt is to maintain a caloric deficit so that your body can feed off the fat reserves in your butt to reduce the size.
To combine the two myths above, doing light weights in the hope to tone your muscles will almost always result in sub-par results from the exercise at best. The light weights that you use for resistance will only build your muscles to a certain degree then stop after a while. The increased reps will only help with your aerobic workout but because of the short amount of time spent per set, it is also very inefficient at best. Ultimately, you will gain very little from your efforts and waste your time.
Overall, people who are looking to improve the appearance of their butt have three things in their arsenal to help with the shaping. They can use resistance exercises to build muscle bulk and tone, they can subject themselves to a caloric deficit which lowers fat content around the body and around the butt. The last thing they can do is to tighten the skin around the butt. This is by far the hardest thing to do, how it is done is simply too hard to explain in a simple article. Follow the link in the resource box below to find out how.
To make matters worst is how the general public is fed so much disinformation about butt exercises that it is borderline a joke. So many health and fitness magazines and even some accredited health journals will tell you that exercising your butt is something that you can easily do. Some will even try to sell your products or services which can "guarantee" results without as much as a sweat. As you may have imagined, all of this is utter bull crap. We will attempt to list a few of the common myths and misinformation that is floating around and to set your expectations straight below.
As indicated above one of the greatest myths is that you can get good results even if you don't put in a lot of effort, or that you can get good results with little effort if you follow a certain routine or use a certain product that is being marketed to you. The simple truth is that you will not be able to gain any substantial change if you don't put in enough effort. By enough I mean a lot more effort than you think you can muster up even now. The muscles in the butt area are some of the strongest and most resilient muscles in the body. They play a pivotal role in the keeping the body upright and helping us in our mobility. It is because of this strength and resilience that extra effort is required for sustainable change.
Another myth that is commonly heard is that you can "tone" your butt muscles with resistance butt exercise with weights that are very light. For some reason or another there is so much hype about toning muscles or even lengthening muscles while not building bulk by using light weights in your resistance workouts. The problem is that muscles only respond to building themselves when they are subjected to work that they aren't used too. This means that if you continue with light weights even with high reps, you will not get the results you are looking for. The only way that you can build strength, build muscle and increase tone is by progressing to heavier and heavier weights, building resistance continuously over time until you reach a point where you are happy with the strength and tone then maintain that weight to keep the tone intact.
Another terrible myth is that you can actually spot reduce the fat on your butt. There are so many advertisements and products that claim that it can do this; they are all lies. There is no way that you can work your butt muscles in such a way that it will draw the fat from the butt. The two systems are quite independent of each other. The only way you can reduce the amount of fat on your butt is to maintain a caloric deficit so that your body can feed off the fat reserves in your butt to reduce the size.
To combine the two myths above, doing light weights in the hope to tone your muscles will almost always result in sub-par results from the exercise at best. The light weights that you use for resistance will only build your muscles to a certain degree then stop after a while. The increased reps will only help with your aerobic workout but because of the short amount of time spent per set, it is also very inefficient at best. Ultimately, you will gain very little from your efforts and waste your time.
Overall, people who are looking to improve the appearance of their butt have three things in their arsenal to help with the shaping. They can use resistance exercises to build muscle bulk and tone, they can subject themselves to a caloric deficit which lowers fat content around the body and around the butt. The last thing they can do is to tighten the skin around the butt. This is by far the hardest thing to do, how it is done is simply too hard to explain in a simple article. Follow the link in the resource box below to find out how.
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Why are Butt Exercise Myths propagated by the media? We answer the questions and look at why wrong information is so freely available.
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