Drop it like a SQUAT! One of the most desired, coveted body parts that every woman wants is a nice round, firm, but yet juicy booty. We buy jeans that make our butt look better. Women get surgical but lifts. Some women buy inserts to put in their pants…all to get a nice butt. The fellas do like, and we will go through hell and high water to get it! There is however, a way to get a nice firm butt without surgery or inserts. You can get one the old fashioned way by squatting. Not only can you get a nice firm butt from squatting, squats actually can increase your libido. Let me explain how.
First of all squats require to use the largest muscles in your body. When you squat, you activate your glutes (butt), you hamstrings (back of your thighs) and your quadriceps (front of your thighs). Because you are using these muscles and they are some of the largest muscles in your body, you will produce a higher amount of testosterone. Now ladies, please understand that testosterone is not just for men. You have it in your body as well. Although your testosterone levels are much lower than a man’s, testosterone is key to your sex drive. It fuels your sex drive just as it does for a man. Exercising and utilizing your muscles increases testosterone production and helps to increase your libido.
When you squat you are engaging your hip power and your pelvic power. As you squat, you should drive your body from your hips and pelvis on the way up. Driving from your hips and pelvis will increase your blood flow in your genital area. Having adequate blood flow to your genitals helps to key for sexual arousal and desire.
One other thing…when you go really deep with your squats and use some type of weight, you activate your pelvic floor muscles…essentially performing kegel exercises. For those of you who don’t know, a kegel is what you do when you use your pelvic muscle to stop urination. So when you want to stop your pee flow, you contract this muscle. Well, performing kegels is a way to further increase the blood flow to your genital area helping to increase the power and likelihood of you having an orgasm. Don’t get excited…you can’t have an orgasm doing squats. Sorry! But it will help you to prepare your body to be in a state where, when having sex, you will experience more pleasure.
Because you are in hot pursuit of the Beyoncé/JLo booty, squats are the best exercise to give you that firm curve you are looking for. The treadmill, nor the elliptical will give you the butt you desire. You need resistance training and exercises specifically targeted to these areas. The beautiful thing about squats is that you can do them anywhere…at home, at the gym…in the bathroom at work…ANYWHERE!
You can exercise without any weight and do air squats, or you can do heavy squats. I recommend, if you are not a big time weight lifter, to just do high volume air squats. I recommend starting out with doing about 100 per day, dropping your as low as you can. Below is a quick shot of me performing squats. Use this technique and get LOW!
If you want to add a little weight, you can use a kettlebell and perform 50 goblet squats using the kettlebell as show below.
Now, I am going to be completely transparent here because it’s just us girls. In addition to running sprints, working out with kettlebells, and all of the other stuff I do, I have a day at the gym where I only work my legs. So I do squats, lunges, stiff leg deadlifts, leg extensions, and leg curls. On my leg days, when I lift heavy and specifically focus on my legs, I feel much more sexually aggressive. However, I am sore and my legs do kinda feel like jelly. So ladies, do, go get it and push yourself with the squats, but not to the point where you’re telling your man…”Baby, I can’t put my leg up like that, it hurts.”
Okay girl, so there you have it. If you want the firm booty, and if you want to ingite your libido and get a little sexual aggression and in the bedroom, try squatting. You will be sore at first, I must say. However, if you keep at it, the soreness will leave.
So girl, drop it hot…DROP IT LIKE A SQUAT!
If you want to learn more ways to firm up that booty and get in shape, send me an email at melinda@libifit.com
Melinda