How Having a Shapely Bum Affects Your Overall Body Health

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Having a well-rounded bum has been on women’s wish lists for a long time, with celebrities like Kim Kardashian sporting banging figures. Fitness experts assert that shapely buns have numerous health benefits that include easing knee and back pain to help one burn calories.

Joanna Dase, global fitness expert at Curves, shared with Sun Health.”Toning your glutes isn’t just about aesthetics, it’s also essential for your general health and functional movements,”

The glute muscles in the buttocks are the most powerful muscles in the body and help your body to compete movements like climbing, lifting and jumping. There are three different muscles that compose the gluteus muscle group. Joanna shares,”The gluteus maximus is the real workhorse of the three, and the one we often think of when we talk about exercise,”

This major muscle “makes up the shape of your derrière and works when you thrust your hips forward or move your hips to the side,” Joanna further explained. This is how a shapely bum could benefit your health:

Eases Back Pain

Accoring to the fitness expert, strengthening your glutes helps to stabilize your pelvis and to suport your spine to prevent your lower back from curving and to  help improve posture.

“Weak glute muscles can also contribute to back pain.When the glutes are underdeveloped, the lower back muscles may compensate, leading to strain and discomfort.Toning the glutes can distribute the workload more evenly across the posterior chain [the back of the body], helping to alleviate this strain.”

Reduces The Risk Of Knee Pain and Injuries

Joanna asserts that a well-rounded bottom stabililize your hips an knees thus preventing them from collapsing during movement. She shares , “Strong glutes act as a stabiliser for your hips and knees too, preventing them from collapsing inwards during movements.By improving hip and knee alignment, toned glutes can reduce the risk of common injuries such as IT band syndrome, patellofemoral pain syndrome, and hip impingement.”

You’ll Burns Calories

Personal trainer Matt Roberts shares that strengthening your ass helps you to burn calories.Since the glute muscle is the biggest muscle in your body. You work in and around it doing exercises like set ups, squats, and lunges recruits a huge number of muscles which will enable you to burn energy fast and will make becoming leaner easier.

Roberts shares, “One pound of muscle burns around six to 13 calories extra at rest, more when you are moving, so focus on the big muscles to add to your metabolic rate.”

 It Makes You Look Younger

Strong glute muscles may help yyou look younger since they support your walk and posture.”When they are weak our movement changes, our posture alters, we stoop a little and our walk becomes that of an ‘older’ person,” Matt  explains.

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