Do squats increase your waist and butt?

[rudolph]

I read that if you do squats the wrong way, like a powerlifter, you'll end up with a huge butt, like a horse, and also a huge waist. This is scary. How can you do squats without getting a butt like a horse and a waist like a ton?

[ahab]

Do olympic squats that are ass to grass if you are bodybuilding.

My waist shrunk... my glutes on the other hand...

[DiamondDelts]

Do olympic squats that are ass to grass if you are bodybuilding.

My waist shrunk... my glutes on the other hand...

Don't feed the trolls.

[rudolph]

Wait a minute.
I read that ass to the gras squats increase your waist!

[rockhuddy]

http://www.acc.umu.se/~zqad/cats/116...1356741260.jpg

[stealth_swimmer]

are you being serious this time or is this another troll post? If serious...don't worry about it, just wear a belt on your heavier sets.

[rockhuddy]

are you being serious this time or is this another troll post? If serious...don't worry about it, just wear a belt on your heavier sets.

WTF? How the hell would that make a difference?

[Febs]

WTF? How the hell would that make a difference?

I can remember that ronnie said in an interview after one of his olympia wins that he bought his waist down in size by wearing his belt throughout the entire workout. Granted he also changed his diet. Ill try and find the video.

Found it,about 2.08 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1qYqiaiH8U

[rockhuddy]

I can remember that ronnie said in an interview after one of his olympia wins that he bought his waist down in size by wearing his belt throughout the entire workout.

Hmm, using the belt like a corset. Sounds kind of flimsy.

[execute007]

squats willl tend to increase your glutes. make sure that you go parallel to the floor, no lower than that.

[Defiant1]

I read that if you do squats the wrong way, like a powerlifter, you'll end up with a huge butt, like a horse, and also a huge waist. This is scary. How can you do squats without getting a butt like a horse and a waist like a ton?

You are going to increase the size of your waist and butt by squatting, period, if you maintain the same bodyfat.

HOW MUCH you do depends on a. how you squat b. your proportions and c. your genetic predisposition to add mass to your waist/butt.

[stealth_swimmer]

Hmm, using the belt like a corset. Sounds kind of flimsy.

by increasing pressure, it decreases oblique muscle fiber recruitment. some study showed that while wearing it the abs were still called on, but the obliques had to do significantly less work. Having a wide waist comes from overdeveloping the obliques. So if you use them less, then the hope is that they'll shrink (just like any other muscle) and slim down the waist.

[Dominik]

I can remember that ronnie said in an interview after one of his olympia wins that he bought his waist down in size by wearing his belt throughout the entire workout. Granted he also changed his diet. Ill try and find the video.

It's rubbish. Weider told him to wear a belt in the gym all the time for obvious reasons: it pulls his gut in when he's porked up in the off-season and accentuates his V-taper which looks better for magazine shoots.

You are going to increase the size of your waist and butt by squatting, period, if you maintain the same bodyfat.

HOW MUCH you do depends on a. how you squat b. your proportions and c. your genetic predisposition to add mass to your waist/butt.

^^^ Beats me how anyone could argue that squats won't increase waist size to some degree. Abs, obliques, and erectors are all heavily involved in stabilizing the weight. All of them contribute to waist size. As for the glutes, it's a no-brainer. Squats and deadlifts will increase the size of your ass, period.

[Hola Bola]

Do olympic squats that are ass to grass if you are bodybuilding.

My waist shrunk... my glutes on the other hand...

I have a hard time believing that.

[Hallock]

squats willl tend to increase your glutes. make sure that you go parallel to the floor, no lower than that.

This has been proved wrong time and time again. Get as much depth as you can. It's not going to hurt your knees. If anything, when people go parallel they tend to stop with their knees, causing more stress than if you're just passing through the parallel position, and then coming back up. I'm not saying parallel will ruin your knees either, but you should go for the gusto if you're going to do squats.

[rudolph]

If you get a bigger waist through squats then is this reversible?
Does the waist strink when you stop doing squats?

And what if you dont want a bigger waist? Does leg-pressing also increase the waist? Which exercises can you do instead of squats?

[AHTTG]

I have a hard time believing that.

He prolly lost some flab or somethin

[AHTTG]

If you get a bigger waist through squats then is this reversible?
Does the waist strink when you stop doing squats?

And what if you dont want a bigger waist? Does leg-pressing also increase the waist? Which exercises can you do instead of squats?

There's only one way to reverse the effect. You must stfu as soon as possible.

[rudolph]

There's only one way to reverse the effect. You must stfu as soon as possible.

[I dont work at Ballys]

I can remember that ronnie said in an interview after one of his olympia wins that he bought his waist down in size by wearing his belt throughout the entire workout. Granted he also changed his diet. Ill try and find the video.

Found it,about 2.08 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1qYqiaiH8U

Yeah my friends waist went down from punching himself in the face everyday. Granted he also changed his diet.

[KopyKat]

Yeah my friends waist went down from punching himself in the face everyday. Granted he also changed his diet.

LOL just prooves the point of the useless other info that companys use to show "results" in most cases when the thing that made the biggest difference is either not there at all or in fine print at the bottom.

Also if Ronnie did really believe the belt would help his waist, well, it sure didn't work lol.