Toning Buttocks – What’s Behind It?

The muscles that give your buttocks their shape are called Gluteus Maximus. Gym junkies simply call them Glutes. They are not the only muscles in your rear end but they are the nice big muscles that serve principally to keep the trunk of your body erect.

Toning buttocks means developing the glutes, or does it?

Are there exercises that target the glutes specifically? Yes of course, and doing such exercises will improve the size and shape of the glutes and give you a shapelier rear end.

Unfortunately for over 95% of us the problem with the look of our butt does not lie in the tone of the gluteus maximus muscles but in the layer of fat that covers the glutes.

It is not our glutes that are not toned; it is that we have too much fat on our butts. That is true and it will sound cruel only to those who are not being honest with themselves.

So is my problem that I have too much fat deposited on my buttocks? If that is so and I want a better looking, shapelier and sexy rear end, what am I to do?

If you have a fat behind and you do the exercises to develop your glutes, guess what will happen? Your glutes will tone up but the fat layer on top will not melt away and you may well end up with an even bigger looking butt.

Its exactly what happens to guys with flabby bellies who develop their abs like crazy and only end up with bigger bellies. The fat layer on top of the muscle is unaffected by the exercise that specifically targets the muscle below.

If you want a really shapely set of toned buttocks or a set of six pack abs that are the envy of all, you can have that easily but not by doing muscle specific exercises. You will be amazed how easy it is to get the toned or ripped look you want.

Understand this: you can and should target specific muscles for development and toning but you cannot target specific areas of your body for fat loss. For overall fat burn, you need a different strategy.

You need to know something else that at first may sound a little harsh and cruel but it will be so only to those who spend their lives kidding themselves. There is no shortcut to looking physically great. It takes work.

If you think that you can take a pill to solve your body fat issues then you are kidding yourself. If you think you buy an ab cruncher that folds up and stores under your bed and that you can develop a ripped body in only 3 minutes a day, you probably still believe in the tooth fairy.
If you are totally opposed to doing some real work to tone your buttocks or build an awesome 6 pack, then there is little that can be done for you and you might as well get used to how you look, because its not going to change anytime soon. Whats behind toning your buttocks? Work!