The Effectiveness Of Booty Bands
Do booty bands work?
Yes, those mini resistance bands you’ve seen fitfluencers with ginormous asses doing soft-core porn workouts with all over social media!
Yes, that piece of exercise equipment those fitfluencers with ginormous asses credit their ginormous asses with and not, perhaps, their surgeon or excessively tight leggings made with the same suspension technology used to hold up bridges!
Now that any possible confusion is cleared up and we know exactly what’s being discussed here, do those rubber band looking thingies work?
Rubber bands are cool for wrapping around a stack of singles with a $100 bill on top so it looks like you’re balling on social media.
Yeah, rubber bands are cool for that!
…but they’re not so cool for wrapping around your legs to perform exercises to build a booty worthy of a creep like me creeping on you!
That’s because the glutes are like any other muscle in the body, meaning that they grow in response to stress that’s greater than what they’re used to.
Moreover, not only are the glutes the largest muscle group in the body but also one of the strongest, as they’re capable of generating the explosive power necessary for us to run, jump, climb steps, and perform other movements that involve the locomotion of our total body weight through space.
Due to the dynamic strength of the glutes, hypertrophy, or muscle growth, for them requires a lot of resistance to overcome the stress that they’re accustomed to. This is resistance that booty bands can’t provide past a certain point, for there’s only but so much resistance that even the heaviest band can offer after a while and but so many reps that one can perform before wanting to blow their brains out at the sheer monotony.
Now, since your ass is still flat enough to get a pancake syrup endorsement deal, everything put together that you’ve just learned must obviously mean that those isolation exercises with a rubber band that you do for infinite reps aren’t producing enough stress for your glutes to grow!
That’s why you should focus more on performing compound exercises with heavy weight for 8-12 reps per set.
NOTE: The three muscles making up the hamstrings all attach near the glutes, so most exercises for the glutes also involve the hams. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t hit them hard separately, though. Stronger hamstrings not only help you lift more weight on booty building exercises so your glutes can grow but making the hamstrings bigger compliments the glutes by creating a more balanced look from the side when creeps like me are creeping on you!
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