Aging butt

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If you need heavy weights to tone your body, it means you're holding significant fat and not seeing your muscles under the fat layer.

In which case, it might be easier to lose fat instead of increasing how much weight you lift.

Toning is usually achieved easily by using one's body weight. Easily, meaning no particular suffering, but just time and repetition.

As you age, remember that stretching isn't an afterthought tacked on to the end of a workout. It's a entire activity, otherwise you WILL get hurt. Do not rush the stretch. You relax, breathe into it, and then relax once more. You will feel your muscles relaxing significantly after the breath. That moment when you feel yourself relaxing a muscle while it's stretched, is the goal you're looking for. People usually contract their muscles while stretching because they're distracted, and as a result, do not get the anti-soreness and joint-defending benefits of stretching.

“Toning” is not a thing. You build muscle mass. Sure, that can be done via one’s body weight, but lifting heavy weights is both more effective and has the added benefit of maintaining bone density.

As for body fat, people need it to live. It’s not realistic to expect visible muscle definition on most people through minimizing body fat (which isn’t necessarily healthy) and doing body weight strength training alone, unless it’s particularly rigorous.

I’m OP and I’m extremely lean naturally. My legs don’t touch and my arms are toothpicks. Any increased muscle tone is usually visible on me. But all my life, I have had visible toned thighs and no butt.

PP you’re directly replying to, and right, because bodies are different in many ways, including where they build muscle more easily.

Heavy weights are still going to be the most efficient way to build muscle.

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Anonymous wrote:How does it look in jeans? How does it look in panties? Does your significant other still find it attractive? Like PP said, it won’t happen overnight but it will eventually.

I’m mostly concerned with how it looks naked.

Why?

Is this a serious question? Why do you think?

Are you single? I can't imagine a married woman caring to this degree.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How does it look in jeans? How does it look in panties? Does your significant other still find it attractive? Like PP said, it won’t happen overnight but it will eventually.

I’m mostly concerned with how it looks naked.

Why?

Is this a serious question? Why do you think?

Are you single? I can't imagine a married woman caring to this degree.

Yes I am.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m 50 with a great butt. I still get checked out for the butt and it can pass the pencil test. Google the pencil test if you don’t know what it is.
What I do:
-Indoor bike rides to the Peleton app. I don’t have a Peleton bike, but I love their workouts.
-Lots of sumo squats. I always do squats whenever I workout. I loathe lunges, so squats are pretty much what I do.
-A mini stepper from Amazon. It is small in size, but much more intense than it looks.

I googled the pencil test - Doesn’t it drop to the floor for everyone? Like, how much fat would there need to be for it to stay there?!!
I feel like that’s not a test of a good butt. I feel like it should be… if you bounce a quarter off the butt, how far does it bounce — that would be a better test.

Are you kidding? A quarter would just lie there.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How does it look in jeans? How does it look in panties? Does your significant other still find it attractive? Like PP said, it won’t happen overnight but it will eventually.

I’m mostly concerned with how it looks naked.

Why?

Is this a serious question? Why do you think?

Are you single? I can't imagine a married woman caring to this degree.

NP
One has to be single to care about this?

[Anonymous]

DP. To answer OP’s earlier question about whether doing squats and lunges will build a good butt — YES. Marathon training does not engage the glutes efficiently. Squats and lunges with proper form give you the best results. I am another former college athlete poster. I had never really lifted weights before freshman year. I came home for thanksgiving break that year and my sister was like “whoa you have a butt”. It is basically the same now because I have kept up with the weight training. Another really good exercise is glute bridges with a resistance band around your thighs a few inches above the knees. You will get a really good burn. Like everything you need to be consistent and you will see a difference. A big round butt is from having developed glutes. There’s no secret.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
If you need heavy weights to tone your body, it means you're holding significant fat and not seeing your muscles under the fat layer.

In which case, it might be easier to lose fat instead of increasing how much weight you lift.

Toning is usually achieved easily by using one's body weight. Easily, meaning no particular suffering, but just time and repetition.

As you age, remember that stretching isn't an afterthought tacked on to the end of a workout. It's a entire activity, otherwise you WILL get hurt. Do not rush the stretch. You relax, breathe into it, and then relax once more. You will feel your muscles relaxing significantly after the breath. That moment when you feel yourself relaxing a muscle while it's stretched, is the goal you're looking for. People usually contract their muscles while stretching because they're distracted, and as a result, do not get the anti-soreness and joint-defending benefits of stretching.

“Toning” is not a thing. You build muscle mass. Sure, that can be done via one’s body weight, but lifting heavy weights is both more effective and has the added benefit of maintaining bone density.

As for body fat, people need it to live. It’s not realistic to expect visible muscle definition on most people through minimizing body fat (which isn’t necessarily healthy) and doing body weight strength training alone, unless it’s particularly rigorous.

I’m OP and I’m extremely lean naturally. My legs don’t touch and my arms are toothpicks. Any increased muscle tone is usually visible on me. But all my life, I have had visible toned thighs and no butt.

This might be a cause of the aging. I noticed extremely thin women tend to age horribly and look bodily (and facially) much older than their plumper counterparts

[Anonymous]

Another believer in squats and bridges here. My butt was a bit saggy and jiggly before, now it looks awesome (to me) in jeans and naked. DH loves it too, although he always complimented it before, too.

It’s probably just the two of us who notice, but lifting really did begin up make my whole body more youthful. I’m a convert.

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OP, definitely lift weights. There is no other course of action here, outside of butt implants. If you have had no butt your whole life, than you will have some structural challenges but there are plenty of resources out there to maximize the workouts of the butt-disadvantaged.

Weights - heavy ones.

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Anonymous wrote:How does it look in jeans? How does it look in panties? Does your significant other still find it attractive? Like PP said, it won’t happen overnight but it will eventually.

I’m mostly concerned with how it looks naked.

Why?

Is this a serious question? Why do you think?

Are you single? I can't imagine a married woman caring to this degree.

Yes I am.

Wait until you see what the butt of naked 50 yr old men look like. YouLl feel great about yourself

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How does it look in jeans? How does it look in panties? Does your significant other still find it attractive? Like PP said, it won’t happen overnight but it will eventually.

I’m mostly concerned with how it looks naked.

Why?

Is this a serious question? Why do you think?

Are you single? I can't imagine a married woman caring to this degree.

Yes I am.

Wait until you see what the butt of naked 50 yr old men look like. YouLl feel great about yourself

This!

OP why are you so insecure?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are squats hard on your knees?

yes

Not if done correctly. You can also wear knee support straps

+1

I follow the directions and never have had a knee problem. If you do them incorrectly, you will have problems.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are squats hard on your knees?

yes

Not if done correctly. You can also wear knee support straps

+1

I follow the directions and never have had a knee problem. If you do them incorrectly, you will have problems.

Me too. Squats are the way to go.

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Anonymous wrote:How does it look in jeans? How does it look in panties? Does your significant other still find it attractive? Like PP said, it won’t happen overnight but it will eventually.

I’m mostly concerned with how it looks naked.

Why?

Is this a serious question? Why do you think?

Are you single? I can't imagine a married woman caring to this degree.

NP. I’m married and care a lot! I like looking good and feeling good. I do weights and cardio before work, plus simple beauty routines. As long as I’m alive I will care about being fit and looking nice.

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Anonymous wrote:How does it look in jeans? How does it look in panties? Does your significant other still find it attractive? Like PP said, it won’t happen overnight but it will eventually.

I’m mostly concerned with how it looks naked.

Why?

Is this a serious question? Why do you think?

Are you single? I can't imagine a married woman caring to this degree.

Yes I am.

Wait until you see what the butt of naked 50 yr old men look like. YouLl feel great about yourself

My husband’s is a rock. High and tight. Looks amazing in boxer briefs and naked.

I was a college athlete and still lift weights, squat and exercise and my butt is defying gravity.