Michele answered Friday January 4 2008, 11:09 am: Doing lunges will tighten your butt muscles and raise them so they don't sag. Depending on your age, they may not even be sagging yet, but having tight but muscles is a plus at any age!
If you use weights, while lunging, you will "build" your butt muscles. They can get bigger, but you'll have to use heavy weights. Don't start out heavy, you could hurt yourself. Start out with 5 or 10 lbs weights. Hold them in your hands while you do your lunges. Gradually increase the weights in increments of 3 to 5 lbs. Increase them every three to four weeks, or when it becomes easy to do the lunges with the current weights.
Leg lifts with ankle weights on will also tighten and englarge your but muscles. Wearing ankle weight, start out on your hands and knees. lift each leg up (behind you) and try to reach the ceiling. Toes should be pointed up. Reach up as high as you can. Gradually increase the weights when they become comfortable and easy to do. FOr each excercise do three sets of 10 on each leg.
In order to build muscles you really should do three different exercises for each muscle group. These are two good ones to start out with. Also when you use heavy weights, you also need to rest your muscles a day inbetween. so do these every other day.
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