Butt Exercise Common Myths
August 1st, 2009Those 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.
An extension to the above myth is that you can spot reduce the fat that is on your butt. Again there are so many advertisements and products that claim to be able to do this but the science of it is simply flawed. There is no way that you can do a butt exercise which will then draw all its energy from the fat around the butt, the human body simply doesn’t function that way. The only way to reduce is to keep your body functioning under a strict calorie restriction. The body will then decide to take the fat from wherever it is genetically predisposed to do so. There is no way you can tell your body to loose fat in a certain area even if you work the muscles there to fatique everyday. Exercises around the butt will only result in muscle tone improvement and never help with the reduction of fat.
The net result of people doing light weights multiple times is a mixture of poor resistance training and even worst cardio exercise. This means that your muscles will have are substandard anaerobic exercises while you also get a poor aerobic exercise from the many repetitions that you do. The net result is you wasting time doing something that really isn’t going to make a difference to the size and tone of your butt. If you keep doing it you will get gradually decreasing results but ultimately there are much better ways to spend your time in developing your butt.
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.
