Building a shapely backside involves more than just doing a few squats and jogging each week. An effective glute training routine should include exercises that stimulate each part of the area. The butt or glutes consists of three major muscles:...
If you want to tone your abs and get a gorgeous backside, doing abs and glutes workouts will put you on the track to success. Combined with a regular cardio program, strength training helps burn calories, boost your metabolism and get lean. Free...
Whether you favor strength training, aerobic exercise or yoga, you can emphasize your glutes in a workout to tone your buttocks. You might already be incorporating the most basic glute exercises -- the squat and the lunge -- into your workout, but...
Your glutes consist of three different muscles, the gluteus maximus, gluteus medius and gluteus minimus. Each muscle plays an important role in moving your legs and stabilizing your pelvis and torso. You can work out your glutes in many different...
Your glutes are actually the muscle groups in your buttocks area that include the gluteus maximus, gluteus medius, and gluteus minimus. You may want to strengthen these muscles for athletic reasons. Or you may be interested in toning these muscles...
Your gluteal complex works with your legs to move your hip joints in different directions, such as hip extension, flexion and rotation. It also works with the legs to produce and control force when you move. The best exercises to train your glutes...
Looking good from behind means working your behind. To get a pert and toned lower-half, you need to focus on exercises that will strengthen your glutes and hamstrings, tightening your thighs and banishing cellulite. To get results like this,...
Your gluteal muscles play an essential role in your ability to perform powerful movements, stabilize your spine and look fantastic in a pair of tight jeans, but sometimes they need assurance of their importance. Many exercises supposedly target...
The benefit of well-defined glutes is more than just aesthetic. Glutes are the trio of muscles that connect to form your buttocks. These muscles are essential for strength, speed, balance and posture. Sitting for prolonged periods of time can...
Your glutes -- or buttocks muscles -- are the primary movers in your hip. They work with other muscles in your hip, legs and back to produce force and move your hip joints in various directions, such as hip flexion and extension. Therefore,...
Lunges are a lower body exercise that target the glutes. Lunges where you step forward or backward with your feet, hips and shoulders all pointing forward work only the gluteus maximus -- but side lunges hit the gluteus medius and gluteus minimus...
Increased muscle tone and decreased body fat enhance the appearance of your lower body. Aerobic exercise burns excess body fat, while resistance training exercises tone the muscles. Elevating your heart rate requires sustained, rhythmic large...
Your glutes consist of three muscles that work together to extend and rotate the leg --- the gluteus maximus, gluteus medius and gluteus minimus. Achieving well-shaped upper buttocks requires performing exercises that target the upper portion of...
Your glutes can be a source of pride or focus of concern. Keep your glutes firm and lifted, or enhance the appearance of your backside, by adding ankle weight exercises to your workout. Although ankle weights are lightweight, the additional...
Having flabby glutes can make trying on swimsuits an unnerving experience. There's no need to avoid the beach, however. You can tighten your glutes in the comfort of your own home without expensive gym memberships or complicated equipment....
Exercising regularly can help trim inches off your body, but losing weight can mean sacrificing curves in your backside. You can exercise while maintaining curves in your butt by building your glute muscles. Developing muscle in your glutes...
The butt is composed of — from largest to smallest — the gluteus maximus, medius and minimus. Together, these muscles function to extend the hip. You perform this action when you move your thigh backward. This motion needs to be taken...
Stomach fat in women is an aesthetic concern as well as a health hazard. Deep, visceral fat that builds up in the stomach increases the risk for gallbladder disease and breast cancer, according to Harvard Medical School. Losing this fat requires...
Excess butt fat is a menace to your anatomy, regardless of your gender. If you are a man, you may not encounter this buildup of fat as much as women, but you are not entirely out of the woods. The quickest and easiest way to flatten your derriere...
The gluteus maximus is the largest part of the three-part glute muscles that make up the buttocks. Bulking up this area of the body can boost self-confidence and improve your functional abilities in certain sports. The key to achieving this goal...
Although many women are obsessed with getting tight and toned glutes, men like this part of the anatomy to be round and firm as well. This not only boosts self-confidence, it also improves sports performance and daily functional ability. The...
Flat glutes have the potential to cause frustration just like fat glutes. To make your glutes more round, you have to learn a little about anatomy. The glute muscles, which consist of the gluteus maximus, medius and minimus, function to extend the...
Most women, and many men, desire glutes that are tight, toned and give the butt a lifted and round appearance. Combined with a proper, clean diet and cardiovascular exercise, many machines in the gym can help round the glutes and lift the booty....
Gaining weight involves eating more to increase your calorie intake, but genetics plays a major role in where and how your weight is distributed. However, you can build muscle to gain weight and develop size in specific areas while following a...
While squats and lunges are popular exercises for toning the butt, the best exercises for the posterior focus on working the three muscles that form the buttock -- the gluteal muscles. For a shapely rear, incorporate exercises that target the...
Turning around to see a flat or shapeless backside in the mirror can cause self-consciousness when you wear a swimsuit or form-fitting skirts or pants. You could invest in undergarments that pad and lift your butt, but these only offer short-term...
The American College of Sports Medicine recommends 60 to 90 minutes of cardio exercise, five days a week to promote weight loss. All forms of cardio burn calories and reduce weight throughout the entire body, but you can hone in on your glutes by...
Having a flat butt is not a threat to your overall health, but it can be detrimental to your self-confidence. This is especially evident when wearing a tight-fitting pair of jeans. Developing a more robust, rounded posterior is an advantageous...
Strength machines and free weights are both used to gain muscle and improve the appearance of the body. The advantage of machines is that they ensure correct movements for a lift, which helps prevent cheating when muscle fatigue sets in, according...
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