How does gluteal muscle growth occur?
Before talking about the time frame in which you can pump up your butt, it’s worth understanding the mechanism of growth of the gluteal muscles.
Many people mistakenly think that muscles grow during exercise. But it is not so. Training only destroys muscle fibers, resulting in micro-tears. It is because of this that the buttocks hurt after a good workout.
Muscle growth occurs during the recovery period after exercise. The human body is designed in such a way that when a stress load occurs, it tries to restore damaged muscle fibers beyond the initial level in order to prepare for possible destruction in the future.
This mechanism is called supercompensation. It is thanks to him that progress in training is possible. But it is worth considering that an important condition for achieving supercompensation is the correct choice of training schedule.
After all, if you do the next workout too early, the gluteal muscles will not have time to recover. If you exercise rarely, the muscle fibers will return to their pre-workout state, since it is “unprofitable” for the body to maintain a high percentage of muscles in the human body.
Many girls would like to pump up their butt, but not increase its size. Therefore, on the Internet you can find many programs designed to strengthen muscles. In fact, there is no such thing. Muscles can only increase or decrease in size.
Therefore, women who want to have firm buttocks without excess fat first need to lose weight and only then build muscle.
Let's start with the basics: gluteal anatomy
Before you understand why your buttocks don’t grow, you should understand the anatomy and understand how they work.
- Gluteus maximus muscle.
This is the muscle that is, in fact, known as the “buttock.” Almost any lower body exercise involves the large muscle. - Gluteus medius muscle.
It is located immediately under the large muscle. Its function is to ensure the vertical position of the human body while walking. - Gluteus minimus muscle.
It is located under the large and medium ones. The primary function of the gluteus minimus muscle is to support body weight, mainly when a person uses one leg for support.
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When drawing up a training program, you should take into account the structure of the muscles of the buttocks and use each of them in training.
What affects the speed of achieving results?
As already mentioned, the speed of achieving results is affected by the frequency of training. If it is optimal, then you will be able to pump up your butt quite quickly.
We must not forget about such an important factor as genetics. Some people are naturally predisposed to faster muscle growth. They are called mesomorphs.
Ectomorphs are not prone to gaining muscle mass. In addition, they have a thin physique, so it is much more difficult for them to get prominent buttocks.
Endomorphs are fat people. Their muscles grow quite quickly, but the large fat layer does not allow the relief to become noticeable.
Body types
Another factor that determines when positive changes become noticeable is the degree of muscle breakdown during training. The more severe the damage, the faster muscle growth will occur.
You can increase the load on your muscles in several ways:
- use weights;
- increase the number of approaches and repetitions;
- adjust execution technique.
That is, if you perform exercises on the buttocks with additional weight, progress will be noticeable much earlier. But it is impossible to constantly increase the weight, so periodically it is necessary to do more repetitions and add approaches.
In this case, you should adhere to this rule: 8–12 repetitions with heavy weights help increase muscle mass, 12–15 repetitions or more allow you to lose weight faster.
In addition, you can improve the technique of performing exercises. Then the buttocks will receive more load. For example, if you squat incorrectly, then all the load will go to your legs. If you learn to perform squats with a wide stance, below parallel with the floor, you can use the gluteal muscles to the maximum.
About two ways to enlarge the buttocks
There are two methods that will help increase the size of your butt:
- By increasing the percentage of subcutaneous fat
- By building muscle mass
By the way, anatomically the buttocks are called the gluteus maximus. Hinting that these muscles can be quite developed and voluminous.
Let's consider each of the methods in more detail.
Volume growth due to fat
Increasing your butt fat percentage with traditional food is not a problem for most people. It is enough for a couple of weeks to a couple of months to uncontrollably eat sweets, flour or fast food.
True, there are nuances in this option:
- Firstly, enlarging various parts of the body through the accumulation of subcutaneous fat is a game of roulette.
Different people store fat in different places. This is due to the number of fat cells that are unevenly distributed throughout the body.
Often, due to the fact that a particular person has more such fat cells on the stomach or sides, extra pounds will be deposited in these places. In this case, the buttocks will remain virtually unchanged.
In this case, the body first accumulates fat in the waist area.
This is how those with a pear-shaped figure will be able to “eat up” their buttocks. Their peculiarity is their naturally wide hips, with fat deposits localized in this area. But girls with a different build shouldn’t count on this.
- Weight gain from fat is a poorly controlled process
Your buttocks won't grow where you want them to. That is, it is impossible to influence whether this will happen in the upper or lower part.
In addition, excess fat on the butt often leads to the formation of cellulite. In this case, the quality of the body suffers.
But all this applies to girls with a normal metabolic rate.
But, for example, a thin body type (ectomorph) is characterized by the fact that it is very problematic to gain body weight. This is especially true for fat accumulation. No matter how much sweet, starchy or fatty foods they eat, it does not affect their weight.
It is for such girls that only the second option is suitable - increasing the volume of the butt by gaining muscle mass in the buttocks.
How long does it take to pump up your butt?
It is also necessary to take into account the conditions in which you have to exercise. You can pump up your butt both at home and in the gym, but the time frame for achieving the goal will be different.
In the gym
If you have the opportunity to go to the gym, getting firm buttocks will be somewhat easier. After all, it’s easy to pick up weights in the gym (barbell, dumbbells, weights, etc.).
In addition, fitness clubs have a wide variety of exercise equipment that help increase the effectiveness of your workouts.
When creating a buttock training program, it is important to use both basic and isolation exercises. Some girls make the mistake of only doing leg swings, etc. This leads to the fact that growth hormone is not released and the muscles do not receive the proper load.
You should not make the opposite mistake by including only basic exercises (squats, lunges, etc.) in the program. After all, isolation helps to engage the buttocks more strongly and finish them off after a heavy base.
You should pump your butt 1-3 times a week. It is not possible to conduct classes more often, as the muscles need to recover. Moreover, if the exercises are performed with heavy weights, training should be done less frequently.
If you follow all the above rules and train with weights in the gym, you can pump up your buttocks in just a month. The first minor changes can sometimes be observed already in the first 7 days. A sustainable result in the form of buttock growth in volume can be achieved within six months of persistent and regular training.
Buttocks before and after training
At home
Finding inventory at home is a little more difficult. If it is not possible to purchase dumbbells or weights, you can use improvised means: water bottles or a backpack with books.
Some girls think that it is impossible to significantly improve the condition of their buttocks at home. In fact, you just need to follow the correct technique and feel the target muscles. Then the result will not be long in coming.
To pump up your butt at home without a variety of equipment, it will take a little more time. The first changes will become noticeable after approximately 14 days. Within a month, the result will already be obvious to others. Further progress will depend on whether the weight of the weight and the number of repetitions increases.
Unpleasant sensations in the butt of a child
Olesya, Almaty
November 20, 2021
Hello, dear specialists! I am writing to you about my son. He is 5.5 years old. A year ago, the following symptoms began: he began to tell me that something was bothering him in his butt, as he said, “a feeling that a poop was stuck” (pardon the expression). He tried to get his fingers in there. Our pediatrician examined his butt. There was very much red around the anus. At the same time, the child had an unclear allergy - he scratched his eyes, nose, and sometimes his body. The pediatrician suggested that due to allergies he might have inflammation in his butt. We took Zyrtec for 10 days and I remember that we smeared Miconaz cream on our butt. Tests were also taken. Giardia was found in the stool. I was treated with Macmiror. The stool samples were not collected again. The child became calm and no longer remembered about his butt. And last night I went to the toilet - the feces were formed, sometimes it happens that the son says that the poop is large in diameter and it is difficult for him to go to the toilet. Yesterday the stool was normal. But after a bowel movement half an hour later, he again began to say that the poop was in the way. I looked and my butt was red (I have attached a photo). And again he has had some kind of allergy for two weeks now. He scratches his face, his eyes, sometimes his dad has single rashes - atopic dermatitis. But after using Advantan ointment, they immediately went away. Two weeks ago we took the OAC and biochemistry (attached). We also have ultrasound obp. Also in December 2022, we underwent a coprogram - everything was normal, the feces were negative for occult blood. And today, tired of this uncertainty, we went to see a pediatric proctologist for the first time. She put on gloves, smeared her butt and finger with Vaseline and palpated everything inside to the length of a finger. She said that there were no nodes or formations. If there was a crack, it's gone. But the color of her butt didn’t bother her. The only thing is that she said that she felt a thick poop right at the exit and that most likely the sensations were associated with it. Now we are back home. The baby pooped. Decorated sausage, long. I asked if this feeling still bothered me. He said no, only after the finger it hurts. In this regard, I have a few questions, please: 1. What, in your opinion, could these sensations be associated with? 2. Can you tell me how to cure this? 3. Is it possible to exclude any tumor? I'm scared about this. 4. Could the proctologist have damaged something in the butt, since the child says that he is in pain now? 5. Do you think it was not in vain that I took you for an examination to a proctologist? Thank you very much in advance!
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Unpleasant sensations in the butt of a child
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