butt & hamstrings

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Lynnne

Cathlete
I have a question - Cathe can answer or anyone who can help!!!

I just started using Cathe's video's in late december.... I chose her videos because they looked so good & they are! Before, I was doing Joyce Vedral - who was great for arms and abs but my legs, butt and hamstrings NEVER changed.

I am now doing a rotation of Legs & Glutes and Muscle Endurance - love them both soooooo much. Question - when will I begin to see a difference or am I doomed to have a squishy butt & no hamstring muscle??? I try to increase my weights as much as possible because I have to build ( I know that)

Also - I've upped my protein intake & try to eat 1gr of protein for every pound (that's hard) because I hear it helps build muscle - is that right. If it is - where can I find a protein chart that lists how many grams are in certain foods ( for example - how many grams of protein in a medium chicken breast?)

Has anyone had success in toning up their butt area? Sorry for the long post - just have lots of questions..


Lynne
 
Hey there Lynne!

A bunch of us are doing a smaller lower body rotation. The rotation is posted in the rotation section and we are checking in in the open forum.

Rotation does include L&G, KPC, PLB, PUB (and we all have our own other parts of the rotation... IMAX).
 
Lynne, I can totally relate to what you’re saying. No, you are not doomed to having a squishy butt and no hamstrings. My squishy butt is mostly gone and I'm still working on my flat hamstrings. What helped me was upping the weights with squats and lunges. I also go one riser higher than 90-degree knee angle on the step-ups. I think L&G is a great workout for "maintenance" since the weights used are so light. The workouts that work for me is MIS, PS Legs and PLB ~in combination with other workouts.
I have a hard time getting enough protein too. Protein shakes are good for me. You could try a search on a nutrition web site to find protein values in foods. I'm not a much of a meat eater so the foods I eat are usually not listed in a common book.
Susan C.M.
 
Have to jump in here scm. I would say L&G is much more than maintenance.

I've been working our for a good 12 years Firm before cathe, gyms, and this is the tightest my butt legs have been and I'm NOT getting younger!
 
Thanks - I'm glad to hear that things do indeed firm up. I guess I'm just a little impatient! I'm going to add in PLB and PS - legs!

thanks...
 
I agree. L&G is much, much more than maintenance. Every time I do it I am amazed at how it fries my legs and butt. More than when I was lifting heavy. Especially my hamstrings. I've been using it for about a month on a lower body rotation and for the first time, I can actually see definition in my legs and they seem to be slimming down.

It must be another one of those, "everybody's different" sort of things.
 
For sure robyn, I used Legs & Glutes ALOT in my freestyle training..... its wonderful with the many workouts....... my hips are 35 1/2 now and I am working on getting them smaller :7 .... love this workout........... Rhonda:7
 
You may be eating more protein than necessary. Weight work is what helps build muscle, not protein. Protein helps repair injured tissue (as when muscles rebuild) but eating more protein than necessary won't build more muscle, it will just be stored as fat or put more strain on your kidneys.

Even body builders eat about 1 gm. of protein per pound of LEAN BODY MASS (not total weight) max. Arnold Schwarzenneger (sp!)recommends .5 gram per pound of body weight. I've also read recommendations for 1 gm. per kilogram (2.2 pounds) of body weight.

For good butt and hamstring work, I recommend a workout that you can use heavier weights on and that has multiple sets up step ups and deadlifts, like PLB, where you can also go rather heavy (especially if you lenghten the rests between sets to what you need to recover. Cathe and crew zip through the sets rather quickly, and I can't even keep up to their weight change speed, so I don't even try!)
 
You may be eating more protein than necessary. Weight work is what helps build muscle, not protein. Protein helps repair injured tissue (as when muscles rebuild) but eating more protein than necessary won't build more muscle, it will just be stored as fat or put more strain on your kidneys.

Even body builders eat about 1 gm. of protein per pound of LEAN BODY MASS (not total weight) max. Arnold Schwarzenneger (sp!)recommends .5 gram per pound of body weight. I've also read recommendations for 1 gm. per kilogram (2.2 pounds) of body weight.

For good butt and hamstring work, I recommend a workout that you can use heavier weights on and that has multiple sets up step ups and deadlifts, like PLB, where you can also go rather heavy (especially if you lenghten the rests between sets to what you need to recover. Cathe and crew zip through the sets rather quickly, and I can't even keep up to their weight change speed, so I don't even try!)
 
I won't say that my butt and hamstrings look great but I definitely feel my butt and hamstrings after I do PLB using the heaviest weights possible. I sometimes do Pyramid Up only but feel I get the best workout if I do the whole thing as is. LOVE this workout. It is my favorite lower body workout. Good luck!
Angela
 
I won't say that my butt and hamstrings look great but I definitely feel my butt and hamstrings after I do PLB using the heaviest weights possible. I sometimes do Pyramid Up only but feel I get the best workout if I do the whole thing as is. LOVE this workout. It is my favorite lower body workout. Good luck!
Angela
 
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