There is something that many health junkies or even professional “workout-holics” overlook when it comes to their full body work-outs. As you might have realized, most training regimes pay very little attention to the butt. The reason that the butt is so often overlooked is probably because of the many trainers and fitness magazines that put emphasis on body parts and neglect the butt. This is a big mistake as we will explain to you shortly.
One of the reasons for the neglect of the butt in most of our workouts is that the butt is almost always classified wrongly. Instead of being its own specialized set of muscles, most health professionals and even health journals will classify the butt muscles as either a part of the legs or the back. It is because of this that the butt will often get a substandard workout together with either the butt or the back. To make matters worst the butt muscles are some of the strongest muscles in the body. They are used everyday for your daily activities thus sub-standard workouts that only tough the butt muscles will simply not get you the results that you are looking for. Instead of mixing up the exercises, we recommend that the butt has its own specific workout.
The exercises that you use to train the butt muscles are similar to the ones that you use to train your thighs and legs but are slightly different in that they focus a lot of the strength development on the butt muscles rather than on the thigh and leg. We are not going to cover the different exercises that follow focus on the butt here, for that you have to visit my website http://www.butt-up.net, link available after the article. It is only by concentrating on the butt muscles that you can effectively carve out your butt to the shape that you desire.
If you have had the time to flip through the current edition of any of the popular fitness magazines out there you will see that they will generally focus their attention on muscle groups that are easier to train and can show their results quicker. There is a distinct lack of focus on any of the muscles in the butt area. For the majority of us health enthusiasts, we get our information from these magazines or even from trainers who in-turn also obtain their information from these health publications. The thing is that there is little said about the whole concept of body shaping. Much is told about the different part of the body and how you can shape these but very little space is provided for those looking to build their entire body making it look good.
It is only at the higher end of the health and fitness spectrum that people know the concept of body shaping. The concept of body shaping is that there is no one single component or part of the body that can be considered beautiful. It is how all the components and parts of the body come together that defines it as beautiful. Basically the beauty of the entire body is greater than the sum of all its components or parts put together. The two very simple elements that will define this beauty are symmetry and balance. It is only with these two components that a body can be called beautiful. Symmetry is when the length or sizes of your body is proportional to everything else. For example, the size of your feet have to symmetrical to the length of your shin, the size of your arm must be proportional to the width of you shoulders etc. If any of these are “off-ratio” then you will have to work on it to get the symmetry back. Balance on the other hand deals with how centered your body is and how different you are from left to right. If you have an arm that is longer than the other then you aren’t balanced and thus aren’t beautiful. From this you can easily see that the importance is having your entire package look good. Your butt being a part of the package means that you have to get your butt looking good too!
We think that the butt is not given enough attention when looking at body beauty as a package. Some people are gifted in that they are born with butts that are somehow proportional to their body even if they only pay attention to the rest of their body and neglecting their butts in exercise regimes. For the vast majority of us, our butts need an equal amount of attention as the rest of our bodies. There is no sense in building all the different components of your body into perfection but keeping your butt looking the same. It is far better to think of your entire body image and build your butt appropriately so that you are more beautiful because of it.
