The two things you’re probably forgetting for your summer booty

June 29, 2018 Ashley 0 Comments

It’s not fair.

I mean, you did exactly what you were supposed to do, right? You heard that’s squats were a surefire way to get a fiery fanny in time for summer. So, you faithfully followed the fitness rule. You didn’t wanna just lose weight. You wanted a head turning bottom. Thus, you loyally initiated the timeless tradition of dropping that thang like it was hot on the daily so that it would be, come summer holiday. That was… two months ago. Now, fast forward to late June, and you’re still feeling a li’l lackluster in the back section. So what gives?

What gives is poor, misinformed you. You’ve been giving all’ve your focus to one aspect of your azz – while neglecting equally important bits of your booty. But don’t feel bad. The notion that the popular squat popping move is the do all to end all end-side flatness is a common misconception. Now, don’t get me wrong. Squats are awesome. That is, they’re awesome for your gluteus maximus. And, while that’s great, your max isn’t the only muscle making up your butt. There’s also your gluteus medius and gluteus minimus. Now, some’ve you might be eyerolling cuz it means more work’s in store. That’s fair. It totally blows – but it’ll also blow everyone away when your sweaty efforts land you a next level bubble rump.

“Did she just say she was gonna blow us away with her butt?”

(Now we know why the Vargas girls all made that face…)

So, what do you do to get there?

Well, I like to keep these things simple. Ya know – something my brain can easily recall at 5 A.M. when it’s still in a compliant, suggestible state. (Especially if it’s a thing I hafta do five days a week.) Otherwise, if there’s any complication, I’ll just conveniently “forget” (AKA press snooze repeatedly in lieu) or do that thing where I say I didn’t have time ’cause I was busy doing other high priority action item tasks on my very long list…

(I love how “lazy” stock photos show chicks wistfully pondering. Ya know damn well we hate stalking hotties online.)

That’s why it’s great to add in just two additional types of exercises other than squats.

The second one’s for your gluteus medius – another butt muscle that lays just under your g. max. Then, the third one’s for your gluteus minimus – which lays even deeper. Now, I could just list two exact exercises that’ll target those muscles. But, if you’re anything like me, you see an exercise you low key don’t even wanna be doing in the first place, find something wrong with it (“Oh, that’ll exacerbate the disease I just diagnosed myself with on pubmed”) and abandon any kind’ve new exercises altogether.

So, instead, here are two vids with options that target your glute med and glute mid:

Then, once you find the two new magical moves you’re willing to do, start out with 30 of each (squats, glute med exercise, and glute min exercise) for four to five days a week. After about a week, you can ramp ’em up to 45 apiece. Next week, start multiple sets of 30 or 45. Finally, once that gets easy, you can start adding weights – or even go back to those videos to find fun, new challenging ways to break a sweat – and the cycle of FBS (flat butt syndrome).

In sum, for a muscular bum, don’t quit the squats.

Just start targeting your whole trio of tushy muscles for that summer bubble butt.