Anonymous wrote:pilates & ballet did it for me
esp during covid

i love maria khoreva's workouts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfxWBCRTPcs

she has them for all parts of the body. some in 9 minute modules

I’m a NP and did this today for the first time.
Or rather I tried to. It was extremely hard!!

I am 48 with a great butt. Definitely heavy weights. You need to build out the bigger muscles to give definition.I squat my body weight.

I also do Pilates - that is good for refining shape but won’t address the flatness.

Yoga is nice but it won’t do much for you if done on its own

You can split the difference. I use dumbbells at home (20-35 lbs each). No need for a gym. Maybe a trainer once, but online videos are easy to follow.

I like these exercises:

1) sumo squats. With your legs spread wider, I fell less strain on my knees. Working lower into the squat gets better results

2) single-leg dead lifts. This one takes some balance, but it really isolates the butt. No need for a gym and weight bar. I use one 35 lb dumbbell

3) weighted glute bridges/hip thrusts. This is the single best exercise for butt. I also use a balance ball and do them single-legged.

I like MBF (muscle burns fat) on Beachbody.

My favorite online trainer is Kelsey Wells. He Facebook page gives tons of at home workouts.

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Anonymous wrote:Do not listen to the Pilates and barre people. Light resistance and body weight cannot help your aging butt. You need WEIGHTS. Anyone telling you otherwise is either not in a fight with gravity yet or has an old saggy butt and is in denial

Op. My question though is that even increasing my muscle mass does not seem like it is going to help the fat redistribution problem that is causing sides, which are fat not muscle, to slide down.

Building the muscle mass under the fat will lift it

I also recommend yoga.

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Anonymous wrote:Do not listen to the Pilates and barre people. Light resistance and body weight cannot help your aging butt. You need WEIGHTS. Anyone telling you otherwise is either not in a fight with gravity yet or has an old saggy butt and is in denial

PP here. You've never taken a barre class, trust me you wouldn't last 5 mins. FWIW, we use weights and resistance bands till the point of fatigue.

Your 3 lb weights and resistance bands are not building muscle, sorry to tell you. OP needs to actually build out the muscle if she wants lift and roundness

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Again, you've never taken a barre class. I've lifted weights for years. YEARS! And nothing has transformed my body (and butt) the way barre has. To each their own.

Ditto for Bikram yoga. I also did PT for months but Bikram fixed my plantar fasciitis.

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Anonymous wrote:Are squats hard on your knees?

yes

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

OP and although I fabulous lean perfect legs my butt has never been on the bubbly side, always white-girl flatter, even when I was running marathons ten years ago. Can Barre and squats really change this? I mean I’ll try but is it like how stretching won’t make you taller?

Im doing 10 min glutes with my Peleton app 3x a week and I have seen a big difference... for a 50 year old.

I hope in 6 months to be able to do the 20 min glutes.

I'll never have my 28 year old butt but that is okay, because it's really about health. If you don't have muscles it's bad, bad walking, sitting, trying to stand.

As RGB's trainer said, when she asked why do I have to do squats, because you want to be able to get off the toilet all by yourself until the day you die. No truer words have been spoken.

Anonymous wrote:Do not listen to the Pilates and barre people. Light resistance and body weight cannot help your aging butt. You need WEIGHTS. Anyone telling you otherwise is either not in a fight with gravity yet or has an old saggy butt and is in denial

Op. My question though is that even increasing my muscle mass does not seem like it is going to help the fat redistribution problem that is causing sides, which are fat not muscle, to slide down.

Anonymous wrote:Are squats hard on your knees?

yes

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Anonymous wrote:Do not listen to the Pilates and barre people. Light resistance and body weight cannot help your aging butt. You need WEIGHTS. Anyone telling you otherwise is either not in a fight with gravity yet or has an old saggy butt and is in denial

PP here. You've never taken a barre class, trust me you wouldn't last 5 mins. FWIW, we use weights and resistance bands till the point of fatigue.

Your 3 lb weights and resistance bands are not building muscle, sorry to tell you. OP needs to actually build out the muscle if she wants lift and roundness

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Again, you've never taken a barre class. I've lifted weights for years. YEARS! And nothing has transformed my body (and butt) the way barre has. To each their own.

not the OP here, but it is tough for the 50 plus crowd. Especially if you have not been an athlete your whole life and have some chronic pain issues.

I try to focus on keeping a normal weight, getting some cardio and some balance and strength. Adding in a program that focuses heavily on butt muscle with a trainer just sounds exhausting.

I will start with some squats and see how it goes.

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Anonymous wrote:Do not listen to the Pilates and barre people. Light resistance and body weight cannot help your aging butt. You need WEIGHTS. Anyone telling you otherwise is either not in a fight with gravity yet or has an old saggy butt and is in denial

PP here. You've never taken a barre class, trust me you wouldn't last 5 mins. FWIW, we use weights and resistance bands till the point of fatigue.

Your 3 lb weights and resistance bands are not building muscle, sorry to tell you. OP needs to actually build out the muscle if she wants lift and roundness

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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.

Be realistic. No one is expecting a 50 yo woman to look good naked.

I remember being in a Scandinavian gym* some years ago, and all these 60 year old ladies were walking around naked. They looked REALLY GOOD, all fit/slim (not skinny) and confident. Don't fall for the "can't look good any more" trap.

*locker room!