Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last decade, you will have noticed that butts are a thing. And I don’t just mean butts, I mean BUTTS. There’s a lot of things I won’t thank the Kardashians for (cycling shorts as a fashion statement being one), but encouraging people to embrace their curves is one of them. But what if you don’t want to go down the implants route and you don’t have the genes? Can you create a firm and toned butt from nothing? And how long will it realistically take?
My goal
While I think the Kardashian-Jenner clan are fire in their own way, the booty I have always most aspired to is Jennifer Lopez in the music video for ‘I’m Glad’. I mean, just look at it…
It’s natural, toned and attainable butt (kinda).
I have always been very Mark Darcy in Bridget Jones about my bum; I like it, just the way it is. But, looking at it in the mirror a few weeks ago I realised that, surprise surprise, my 30-year-old bum does not look 21 any more. It’s a little flatter than it used to be, a little saggier and just not packing the same peach-shaped punch it used to. In fact, while I’ve always been lucky enough to find exercise keeps my arms and stomach toned, no amount of cardio, yoga or pilates has ever reduced even a tiny bit of the wobble in my thighs and bum.
So, I enlisted the help of Lucie Cowan, a personal trainer at Third Space in London, to help me sculpt a more toned bum.
Lucie is an expert in building lean muscle and seemed like the perfect person to hand my butt over to for six weeks. Lucie, my life arse is in your hands…
My body
I realise just how much the Kardashian look has impacted our beauty ideals when Lucie looks positively beaming to discover my goal isn’t to just grow a bubble butt to rival Kim’s.
Building a firm, toned bum is all about strength, explains Lucie. Squats and lunges might be some of the best moves out there to build muscle in your glutes, but if you want to be doing them properly, in a way that will really shape and change your butt, you need to be adding weight to these moves.
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