A lot of people who like to think that they are in a good health regime and are doing good for their body image rarely even consider their butt as something that they can concentrate on. This probably is the fault of many trainers or even the many magazines that we subscribe too that simply don’t put enough emphasis on the butt to be something worthy of further development.
The big mistake that many people do and still continue to do is to classify the butt as either a part of the leg or the part of the back, so when they exercise their legs they think that they are exercising their butt, or when they are doing their back they think they are also doing their butt. This simply isn’t the way we should approach the development of the butt. Instead of thinking of the butt as a component of other “sets”, we have to think of the butt as a body set that requires its own specific training. Much like how you might set days for “arms”, “legs”, “shoulders” etc, the proper way is to set days to focus on your butt too.
One other factor that makes the training of the butt less efficient is the lack of understanding regarding the types of exercises that will work the butt versus those that will work the back or the legs. The problem is that the exercises that hit the back and the legs are very similar to the ones that work the butt. Most health and fitness instructors or even instructional guides do not go into the subtleties of each exercise and how if set up in a slightly different way will actually put the focus on the butt muscles. For our purposes here, we will not go into the different exercises, you are however welcome to see the different methods available at http://www.butt-up.net.
Although the mainstream fitness people don’t know much about the development of the butt, many expert trainers like the ones which celebrities use know the value of the butt and can develop programs to focus on the butt and consequently obtain the body line that they are looking for. Most of us will get our knowledge of working out through magazines or fitness journals which are simply not updated enough to understand the concept of whole body image. Rather most publications and normal trainers will focus on other areas of the body which can show development more readily. The facts are quite simple, you have to concentrate on the entire package to get a body that is most beautiful.
Most body image people will know that there is no one component in the body that will define it its beauty. Rather it is the all its parts which come together to form the body beauty. More often than not, balance is one of the key attributes that makes a body beautiful. Symmetry is generally perceived as defining factor in keeping the body balance right. For example your shoulders should be a certain width to your hips, your legs should be a certain height to your torso etc. It is because of this importance in balance and symmetry that we feel that the butt plays such an important role. If you have all your other body parts in perfect size but your butt is “off” then the whole package that is your body image is destroyed.
We think that the butt is not given enough attention when looking at body beauty as a package. Some people are gifted in that they are born with butts that are somehow proportional to their body even if they only pay attention to the rest of their body and neglecting their butts in exercise regimes. For the vast majority of us, our butts need an equal amount of attention as the rest of our bodies. There is no sense in building all the different components of your body into perfection but keeping your butt looking the same. It is far better to think of your entire body image and build your butt appropriately so that you are more beautiful because of it.
