Do this post cardio workout to push up your tush

June 21, 2018 Ashley 0 Comments

Been slaving away at squats for that beach booty?

Only to earn a duo of deflated looking beach balls on your behind?

Yes, toning up our “assets” is an aspect of our weight loss paths many’ve us are worried about. (Especially if you’ve gotta job where you’ve gotta sit on it all day.) And, while squats are a great way to get a wonderful bum, there are other ways to get a devastating derriere. What’s more – it can even save you time. See, you’ve probably been making extra time for training that booty on your non-cardio days. But, really, you can get your daily dose of tush push up right after hitting the treadmill. No extra gym visit required.

And how’s that?

Simple: by strutting up an incline.

(Actual excerpt from my latest novel: “Love Letters to my Future Rump”)

Yep. Right after your run, you take up that treadmill incline (significantly) and spend an extended cool down sesh scaling that badboy. And why’s it work? Well, in order to lift your butt, you’ve gotta increase the mass of its muscle. And, to increase your azz’s muscle mass, you’ve gotta actually work that muscle. Each muscle has a specific action – sometimes even multiple ones. But the butt? The butt’s biggest gig is lifting your leg behind you. (Otherwise known and “hip extension”.) And nothing gets that extension like treading elevated land. The plus? (Pluses, pluraly, really…) First, that added muscle means added strength. While that translates to improved performance, it also translates to added fat loss, as more muscle equals more efficient calorie burning. And, to add onto that, the constant extension ultimately improves posture.

Caveat? You gotta do it right.

Plodding along while scrolling and trolling online isn’t gonna win you twin pinch-able hills on your posterior. The word “mindful” gets thrown around a lot in pop woke culture. But it def applies here. You’ve gotta be mindful about that meat suit you live in. And it’s not all airy fairy B.S. either. See, when we’re not paying attention to our bodies constantly, we tend to go on autopilot. We get lazy. We revert to our bad body habits. You may’ve noticed how that happens with posture. (Do you sit the same way on a hot date as you do while binge watching “Grace and Frankie” and hating yourself for not looking as good as Jane Fonda does at 70-ish when you’re only 30-ish?) The same goes during a workout. If our attention is diverted from what our flesh is doing, we start operating mindlessly. We aren’t getting the most of our workout. And, in this case, we’re probably not getting full hip extension or the good posture. (Especially if we’re hunched over our phones with scrunched shoulders.) In other words, do it and do it right – by keeping your dome focused on your derriere.

So, what’s the bottom line for your bottom?

If getting the booty you want’s been an uphill struggle…

Try traveling uphill literally ’til you finally get the rear results you want.