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What's causing the larger butt?
I kickbox twice a week, I'm at the gym doing cardio on the treadmill for 20 and elliptical for 20 plus calisthenics and some light weights and lunges twice a week, I stay active on my weekends seasonally. Why is my butt growing? Is it simply diet...some junk in the trunk or could it also be an exercise I'm doing?. Help sheik the bit for me please!,
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Well, as a nutrition coach and former personal trainer I can say that it is due to one of two reasons:
1. You are building muscle in your butt (as the answer below says)
2. You are gaining fat in your butt due to a calorie surplus. This could be due to bad eating habits or simply an over consumption of healthy calories.
The question I would have for you is, are you gaining weight overall? Normally, in order to gain either fat or muscle, the body needs to be in "weight gain mode". One can get some gains while not gaining weight overall but they are usually fairly minor.
Now, another factor that will affect both 1. and 2. apart from your training and diet is genetics. Some people are simply more prone to gaining weight in certain areas than others. If your "special" area is your behind, then when you gain weight, your body may emphasise weight gain in that region over others. There is absolutely nothing one can do about this since you cannot target fat loss. If, on the other hand, the gain is due to muscle, then a change in workout routine would be the way to go (lunges, for example, are quite glute-intensive; from what I hear, so is kickboxing, though I could be wrong since I have never done it).
All this being said, it sounds like you are very active, which is great. So many people just sit on their butts these days rather than use them :P Just make sure your diet is good and monitor your overall weight. Then you can make changes to your diet or routine accordingly.
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It does sound like you are building muscles in your butt and most likely in your thighs as well. A junk food diet would add to this problem.
To correct this problem, if affordable, a few sessions with a professional trainer to layout a proper exercise routine with you will help. A proper routine will help by concentrating your exercise in the right places. Should you still be in school or college, a physical education teacher can do this for you.
Then a visit to a nutritionist will help you with proper diet. Many health foods stores, such as Whole foods, have nutritionists on staff or ones who visit to draw customers to their store. Their advise is free thy may point you to products of the companies they are being paid to represent. You do not have to buy the products they recommend to get their advice.
What you want is advice on proper meal planning to support your lifestyle and workout routine. And yes you can have a small amount of junk food. As the saying goes man/women does not live by bread alone. You just have to limit the junk food to one a week; say on a date night.
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Don't be too worried about it! I'm almost positive(not FULLY positive only bc idk you!) you're experiencing this because you're building muscle underneath the "junk in your trunk." With time, cardio will fix this. Just give it a couple months(depending on your diet of course)
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