Baby got back.....too much perhaps?

Question

Check it out, I want to wear a bikini. My butt is so flabby, bouncy, and out of shape as well as the rest of my bod. How hard should I work out? How many times a week? What should I eat? I want to look good when I go back to school also.

Answer 1

To begin with, let?s look at the concept of toning. In actuality, we really misuse the word tone when using it to describe how we want a body part to appear. What we really mean is that we want to build the muscle(s) in that area and decrease the body fat on top of that area.

More muscle and less body fat are what give the ?toned? look. So when speaking of toning the glutes, what we really want to do is develop the gluteal muscles, primarily the gluteus maximus, and simultaneously lose fat on and around the glutes.

Increasing the size of the gluteus maximus will give the butt an appearance of being lifted up and back?what I call the bubble-butt effect.

Besides the small glute medius muscle that lies on the sides of and above the hips, the only real tissue on the sides of the butt and hip is fatty tissue. So for a narrow-looking butt and hips, losing fat should be of utmost importance.

And remember, there is no such thing as spot reduction. So no exercise burns fat from a particular area?you can?t pick where fat goes on or where it comes off. Resistance training builds muscle and diet and cardio burn fat?period! But I digress.

Getting back to tone aspect. The word tone really refers to the degree of contraction of a given muscle at any given time, even at rest. Tone is really more of a neurological (having to do with the nerves) concept than it is a muscular concept.

If a muscle is toned, it simply means that the nerve pathways to that muscle are efficiently developed and that the muscle offers a good strong contraction precisely when it?s supposed to.

No discussion of gluteal tonicity is complete without discussing a phenomenon called Lower Crossed Syndrome (LCS). Considered the ?father of Czech rehabilitation,? Vladimir Janda identified a commonly occurring malady in which the glutes and abs lack tone, while the lower back and hip flexors are tight.

This results in a vicious cycle of pain/tightness/pain/tightness. To stop this cycle and restore normal biomechanics and tonicity to an area, one must first loosen the tight muscles. For example, trying to restore normal tone to the glute maximus before stretching its antagonist, the hip flexors, will simply not work.

This topic could easily be turned into a short book, but the shortened version is as follows: stretch and increase the flexibility of the lower back and hip flexor muscles along with ?toning? the glutes and abdominals. So what is the best way to neurologically tone the glutes? Funny you should ask.

Answer 2

Well, you don't just gain weight in one area of your body...and you don't lose it that way either.

For weight loss, target doing cardio about five times a week. Push yourself...go further, go harder, whatever. Don't get comfortable. Each time you do a little more, you'll burn more calories...more calories burned means you'll be burning off some of your "fat stores", and will lose weight...as long as...
...you're not eating more, or eating the wrong things. Don't starve yourself, but don't eat until you're full either. Avoid fried foods, foods high in fat and EXCESS SUGAR. That should help get rid of some of that flabby butt.

Answer 3

Try the gym (instructor) and watch what you eat.