Okay so I am really athletic and I play soccer on a higher type of team and I always have practice and we have to do things like run 5 laps, and sprints.. things like that. So anyways, my hips are so large! my hipbones like stick out so much. I would think that exercise like that would make them thinner but no they are just the same. Please help on how to make them smaller, I RATE 5'S TO ALL!!
[ Answer this question ] Want to answer more questions in the Health & Fitness category? Maybe give some free advice about: Fitness? lulabelle answered Friday June 16 2006, 11:33 pm: It sounds to me like you have lordosis or swayback. When you are involved in a high empact sport like your are this can cause a type of curvature of the spine such as lordosis. This means you would have an antierior tilt of your pelvis. When this happens no matter how hard you work out you will not be able to slim down in your lower extremities because your psoas muscles are contracting. You need to stretch them out and get your posture back in line. I have included two websites below. The first one is some exercises. The ones I want you to work on are the pelvis exercises and the psoas exercise. The psoas exercise is at the bottom of the page. Do at least 10 repetisions of each at least once a day or more if you have time. It's ashame that coaches don't incororate stretching exercises in with their workouts so that perminant damage to the young growing bones does not occur, but they don't. There are hundreds of thousands of adults out there who have lower back pain that can be traced back to the high impact sport they participated in when they were young. Gymnasts are real succeptable to this too all that bending and contorting. If you get yourself into the habit of stretching yourself out after each workout you can keep this from happening to you and correct the damage that may have already occured. Good luck!
xxsima answered Friday June 16 2006, 11:09 pm: Well, if its the hipbones, then you can't really change them. You can try wearing black to kind of 'slim' them, but you can't change your bones. It sounds like you work out a lot when you play soccer, so if you have fat, I don't need to say 'go work out', haha. xDD Just eat healthy so that you don't gain any weight on your hips and other places if you have some fat around your hips.
barreldreamer101 answered Friday June 16 2006, 11:07 pm: My hips are the same way to. No matter how hard you work out and extersise your hip bones cant shrink. It is a genetic gene that you got that isnt to fantastic. If you look at some of your family members they will probally have the same problume. So you really cant make them smaller if it is all bone. Now if it was fat on your hips that would be a different story but scince it is bone it can't be shrunk. Sorry about your luck. Good luck in life. [ barreldreamer101's advice column | Ask barreldreamer101 A Question ]
xomegaroni answered Friday June 16 2006, 10:54 pm: blahh my hips are like that too!! mine is all basically bone though, so i can't really do anything. if you have extra skin there er some fat, try doing sit up twists, which is like a regular sit up but instead of going straight up, take your left/right elbow and touch the opposite knee. i heard that works. you could also keep runnning. if it's bone like i have, obviously you can't do anything about it.
DefinedEyes answered Friday June 16 2006, 9:48 pm: You cant really do anything about your hips, if your really athletic and stuff, and your in shape, thats good, but you cant do anything about your bones, if it were fatty around that, you could lose that weight, but if your bones stick out, theres nothing you can do really.
Just try to find clothes that maybe hide them?
Like people who want to lose weight to be like size zero, sometimes its not possible, because they are just big boned you know?
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