Will I gain weight from doing this or can I maintain my shape?

[Anonymous]

So I have lost weight and hit my target but now I'm doing squats. I'm not doing the ones with the barbel. I'm using dumb bells. Do those work the same way as the barbel? Also, bc I am trying to get a bigger butt, I heard eating certain foods help such as corn bread. If I eat these fatty foods but continue to work out, can I still keep my shape? Will eating them help my butt if I am working out or will that cancel out the effect of the fatty foods.

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Will working out cancel the effects of the fatty foods before they have a chance to make my butt bigger?

[kheserthorpe]

Gaining muscle doesn't mean you lose your shape, though the numbers on the scale would go up.

Cornbread is not useful for gaining muscle mass. Protein is useful for gaining muscle mass.

Any squats might help build glutes, but optimal weight would be heavy enough that you could only perform sets of perhaps 10-12. If you can do more, ideally you'd use more weight. whether its barbell or dumbbell doesn't matter so much. Note that if you are holding the weights at your sides, rather than shoulders, its more of a deadlift than a squat.

[Asker]

I don't mean the squats, I meant will eating the fatty foods make me lose my shape even if I continue to work out.

[kheserthorpe]

Depends on net calories. If you're burning off what you eat, no.

[Asker]

I guess the fatty foods would spread all over not just my butt. Plus the exercises purpose is to lose weight so I guess it would cancel out the effects of the foods f I burn more calories then I eat right?

[kheserthorpe]

You know, processed food tends to be 'bad for you', some foods are bad for you to eat regularly. Cornbread, made from scratch, is not an evil food. Yeah, its a pretty fast digesting carbohydrate, etc, it packs a lot of calories vs. vitamins etc. But its not good or bad on its own. Your overall diet & lifestyle is good or bad. If you're doing hard workouts, you need some calories. A good time to eat simpler carbs is in the hour or so post workout, your body is primed to use them then. If you're burning the calories and they're from real food, they're not bad.

[Asker]

what should I eat while working out that will help me build muscle? I know protein but isn't to much protein bad for you? I heard it was a myth that stocking up on protein helps build muscle.

[kheserthorpe]

You need 'enough' protein, and there's lots of disagreement on how much that is.

Your body is also more inclined to build muscle if you're running a calorie surplus - its actually hard for non-beginners to gain muscle without gaining fat at the same time (some people cycle, gaining both, lose the fat, gain both, lose the fat).

Enough sleep is actually important too. Remember, muscles don't grow in the gym, they grow at night, the gym is just the signal to them.

[BertMacklinFBI]

if you build any muscle then you will gain weight unless you sort it out with building muscle and losing more fat. but its muscle so its not bad weight, its good weight. you'll look even better regardless of what the scale reads.

[throwit]

I think protein would be best to get muscle mass in your ass ;P
Fatty foods would