Buttock slimming: Three simple and effective exercises and squat jumps

How to Reduce Hips Size?

Excessively large hips are common in middle-aged men, but are even more prevalent in young and middle-aged women, affecting their slender and beautiful figure and posing a significant challenge to women's fitness. Many methods have been devised to correct this, such as avoiding sofas and mattresses, and instead sitting on hard benches and sleeping on hard beds; minimizing squatting and bending movements. However, a more effective method is to perform hip-shaping exercises. Here are three sets:

Set 1: Lie on your back. Extend both arms to the sides, palms facing up, shoulders flat on the ground. Keep both legs straight. Raise your left leg straight up towards the sky, knee slightly bent. Then, bring your left leg towards your right hand, pressing down firmly. Slowly straighten your left leg and return it to the starting position. Repeat the same movement with your right leg. Do 8 repetitions for each leg, once a day. Every two days, increase the number of repetitions for each leg by 2, until you reach 20 repetitions for each leg.

Set 2: Lie on your back. Bend your knees, keeping them close together, thighs close to your chest, and calves close to your thighs, holding this position. Then turn your right leg to the right, trying to touch the ground with your knee and bringing it as close to your right elbow as possible. Return to the starting position. Repeat the same movement with your left leg to the left. The repetitions and progression are the same as the first set.

The third set: Seated. Extend both legs straight out, placing both hands on the knees on the same side. Lift your right thigh, bend your right knee, and "step" forward with your right leg. "Step" forward with your left leg in the same manner. Essentially, you are using the muscles of both buttocks to alternately "walk" forward. After completing ten steps forward, "walk" backward ten steps, returning to the starting position. Do this twice a day, gradually increasing the number of repetitions until you reach five repetitions per day.

These movements can be performed on a clean floor, carpet, or mat.

The above three sets of movements can be done individually or alternately. At first, your waist, hips, buttocks, and leg muscles will be very sore, but if you persist and gradually increase the intensity, you will definitely see results.

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At the hospital outpatient department

A robust young woman was telling the doctor her troubles.

Her name is Yao Hong, a member of our university's basketball team. She had been busy preparing for her postgraduate entrance exams, so she stopped exercising and increased her nutrition significantly. As a result, her belly grew large, and her buttocks became thick. Therefore, she came to the hospital, asking for a "good remedy" for weight loss.

I said, "As an athlete, exercise is the best way to lose weight. The method is very simple: first squat, then jump up, lifting your hips as high as possible. Do 100 times in the morning and 100 times in the afternoon every day. Stick to it for a month, and you will see results."

A month later, Yao Hong told me that she had successfully lost weight.

Why does the "squat-jump-jump" motion slim the abdomen, especially the buttocks? From a sports physiology perspective, this increases the length of the gluteal and leg muscles, allowing them to generate greater force when contracting, propelling the body into the air. Regarding the relationship between muscles and jumping ability, increased muscle length results in a greater rebound force during contraction. From a biomechanical perspective, longer muscles increase the duration of force application to the buttocks and legs, facilitating the generation of initial velocity just before contraction, thus increasing jumping power. The Cuban women's volleyball team utilizes this principle to select and train athletes. Due to their exceptional jumping ability, Cuban players are nicknamed "Black Rubber." Their star spiker, Luis, is 1.75 meters tall, but can jump to touch 3.30 meters, with her feet leaving the ground reaching a height of 1.50 meters.