ive noticed that people who squat heavy have large behinds... i am starting into heavy squats but dont want a big ass. is there any way i can target more quads and less glute? (ie. placing 1" wood or plate under heels? - if i but a larger block under my heels, will it target more quads?)
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Thread: HEAVY squatters have big butts
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04-14-2007, 10:30 AM #1
HEAVY squatters have big butts
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04-14-2007, 10:33 AM #2
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04-14-2007, 11:31 AM #10
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04-14-2007, 11:33 AM #11
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04-14-2007, 11:33 AM #12
wide stance powerlifter style squats are mainly whats gives the big butt...where you "sit back" a lot with the hips and use a lot of hips/hams/glutes. Also, going deep hits the glutes hard.
if you do a little closer stance and only go down to about parallel you will hit more thighs, less glutes
also of course hack squats and leg extensions hit thighs with little or no glutes"Humility comes before honor"
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04-14-2007, 01:10 PM #13
"I don't want a big butt." one sec here...
here's a tidbit from http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/plmyths.htm
"Powerlifters Have Huge Rear Ends
Now this may be true if said power lifter has a ton of fat on his ass. But as I've said earlier, this is often not the norm. In fact, I think this myth is just an excuse for people not to squat heavy weights which, I'll admit, can be intimidating to some. If lifting heavy weights is scary to you, and this doesn't change within a couple months' time, then you simply don't have what it takes to be a power lifter.
Now, back to addressing the myth. True, a person's rear end (glutes) will grow larger if they squat heavy. But so will their hamstrings, quads, calves, and hip flexors. Everything will grow in proportion. Like I said in the above paragraph, if there is fat over your backside, especially if there is a lot of muscle, you will have a large rear end. If you are a relatively low body fat percentage, you will just have a dense, strong hind end. "
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04-14-2007, 01:40 PM #14
Squatting heavy isn't intimidating to me, I squat heavy quite often. I have a pretty severe case of squatters @$$ as well. My quads and hamstrings have gained a decent amount of size too with squatting. I can't say my calves/adductors/flexors have though... Maybe they've gained strength because I've gradually widened my stance (Except calves... I'm not sure calves play a major role in squatting...), but they have not gained size. Although my legs have gained size, it is NOT in proportion to my butt at all. I definitely don't hold a lot of fat either, so don't say it's because I'm a fat powerlifter who eats blended twinkies for a PWO shake. My bodyfat percentage is "relatively low" and my hind end is not the firm/dense/strong butt that you seem to be explaining. Here is a picture I just took today of my back (Since I look kind of fat in avatar), but I assure you squatters butt is not a myth. It's very real, and it could happen to YOU!
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04-14-2007, 01:50 PM #15
stfu you retard. people who squat big weights do not have big asses. ****ing fat people have alot bigger asses that people who squat but you dont hear them complaining about their ass getting bigger from doing too many squats, unless its to the toilet after taco night. come to think of it, those fat overfed man children on maury have bigger asses than 99% of all powerlifters
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04-14-2007, 01:51 PM #16
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04-14-2007, 02:02 PM #18
Calm down roid rage. Less juice in your cereal please. I'm just saying that I squat heavy, I'm not fat, I always break parallel, I squat a few times a week, and somehow I have a mammoth butt. Maybe it's all of those factors, maybe it's only 1-2 of them that created this monstrosity. But squatting heavy, from what I've seen and experienced, will give you a pretty big behind. No "buts" about it.
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04-14-2007, 02:30 PM #20
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04-14-2007, 02:39 PM #21
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04-14-2007, 02:46 PM #22
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I want a BIG ASS
But the opposite is working for me. I've been doing squats for the past 3 - 4 months and I'm loosing weight from my @$$. This is not a good thing because I like my butt big. I was a 42 and now I'm a 39 which SUCKS!!!!! I wrote about it in my blog today because I'm not a happy camper about this situation.
http://blog.bodybuilding.com/goddess...hurts-so-good/
If heavy squatting gives you a big butt then when should I see those results because I want my big butt back!
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04-14-2007, 03:12 PM #23
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04-14-2007, 04:30 PM #24
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04-14-2007, 05:11 PM #25
High box squats give me bigger quads and help my conventional deadlift a lot, but regular powerlifting stance squats give a bigger butt and help my sumo deadlift while not doing much for quads or conventional deadlift. Take from this what you will.
"There is no room for failure now. The innocent must die."
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04-14-2007, 06:28 PM #26
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04-14-2007, 10:09 PM #28
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04-16-2007, 06:36 AM #29
You posted this on another thread, you said you wanted a "chick magnet body." That chicks dig "nice asses not big asses." You are 5'8" 140 lbs. you should wish you had a "big" ass. Just like you are not going to go to bed tonight and wake up resembling anything a women wants, you are not going to do a few sets of squats and wake up with that 'big ass" that worries you so. I think everybody has pretty much echoed the same things, genetics, lazy fat asses, women love the squat butt....Just get to the gym and do some squats.
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04-16-2007, 06:40 AM #30
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