Do you think these exercise methods are effective?

[CincinnatiRedsfan]

I find them a bit odd but I guess they could work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQXF4-B13NU

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@NotJustAnotherGuy I still don't fully agree with you but you gave such a good effort, I couldn't help but pick you for Most Helpful Answer.

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@BelleGirl21 I forgot how funny this answer was.

[NotJustAnotherGuy]

Circuit training is the least effective type of routine. Your strength or hypertrophy gains are diminished by having no rest period. Your body needs 3-5 minutes of rest to fully recover between sets, although blood flow starts to restore after 2 minute. Which is why 30-90s rest periods is ideal for hypertrophy (as much rest as possible without losing your pump) and 3-5 minutes are ideal for strength.

So when is circuit training useful?

When you don't have enough time, or don't feel like committing much time to exercise. Or, if you just like doing circuit training. Ultimately regular exercise is more important than what exercise you do-- so if you can stick to circuit training but can't others, then by all means do circuits.

But if you have the time and the ambition (and don't kid yourself, lying about how much you're mentally willing to take on is only going to cause you to skip days and abandon your fitness) then a routine devoted to steady state cardio (long distance running, cycling, swimming, etc), pyramids, intervals, or 2 hour lifting sessions are going to do much more for you.

[BelleGirl21]

This^^^

[Levin]

Forgive the inanity of my question, but, what's wrong with her arse?

[CincinnatiRedsfan]

This comment made me laugh lol

Anyway, it's a big "arse" to say the least.

[Izzy2102]

Can you post the link in a comment? the screen doesn't work for me

[CincinnatiRedsfan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQXF4-B13NU

Here it is!

[Izzy2102]

What is odd about it? It's just interval training with cardio in the middle of toning exercises?

It is effective as a workout. But DON'T think it will give anyone a butt like hers. IF hers is real it's all fat

[NotJustAnotherGuy]

This is not remotely interval training. This is circuit training. Circuit training is when you take no rest between sets and go directly into, often, another muscle group.

Interval training is when you take small breaks of rest or low intensity exercise, just to go back to the same high intensity exercise. E. g. Sprinting 100m, walking 100m, sprinting again, etc.. Or 30-60-90s, sprint the hill 30s, walk down, sprint the hill 60s, walk down, etc..

[Izzy2102]

@NotJustAnotherGuy You don't have to take a break you can do anything that will bring your heart rate down a bit. Like she did, running the stairs and then doing push ups. Then run again and do crunches or something

But well whatever you want to call it, it's an old technique, nothing odd about it

[NotJustAnotherGuy]

Except she doesn't run the stairs again. There's no interval (or time in between) because you don't come back to the same exercise. She might run them again in another set of the circuit, but then again that's still not interval training which is specifically high intensity, low intensity, then high again; not legs then arms, legs then arms.

[Izzy2102]

@NotJustAnotherGuy
Well her workout goes kinda like this
Stairs (high)
Jumping Lunge (high)
push ups (low)
Stairs (high)
Jumping Squats (high)
Squats (low (er))
On the Mat (low)
Stairs (high)
Jumping Lunge (high)
push ups (lower)
Stairs (high)
Jumping Squats (high)
Squats (low (er))
On the Mat (low)

There is def a high low pattern.
And as I was saying there no matter what you call it, it's a very common thing

[CincinnatiRedsfan]

@lizzy2102 Thank you! I'm so sick of people saying "if you want a big butt, just exercise." That is the biggest myth I see now! It's quite the opposite really it will reduce fat and make your butt smaller and flatter.

I think her butt is real. She used to be 100lbs heavier and she lost a lot of weight and kept her fat in her butt.

[CincinnatiRedsfan]

@Izzy2102

[Izzy2102]

I don't know her butt in that video looks terribly fake to me. And I also wonder why she is wearing a corset?

[CincinnatiRedsfan]

Izzy1202 The only thing I know is she literally lost over 100 pounds in the past three years. She may have very well had surgery to make her butt big. And I have no idea why she is wearing a corset.

[NotJustAnotherGuy]

Her butt isn't fake. Geeze, do some thinking. She's fat, that's why her butt is big. She looks thin because the corset is slimming her waist. Look up "Wasp Waist". Her curves are a matter of persistently wearing a corset. And for the last time it's not even remotely interval training!

[CincinnatiRedsfan]

@NotJustAnotherGuy You can't be sure her butt isn't fake. For all we know, her butt is plastic. And she's not fat at all actually, she's just curvy.

[NotJustAnotherGuy]

She is fat... you can tell by her arms.. she is only "curvy" because she regularly wears a corset that over time crunches in your midsection. But it does little to help your bodyfat percentage. Again-- look up wasp waists! If she took her pants off she'd have a bunch of cellulite. If she took her shirt off, you'd see no definition whatsoever in her stomach. Curves is a shape, and that can manipulated (and has been in this case) without gaining muscle or losing fat. If you took her to a doctor, she'd be classified as obese. If she stopped working out regularly, she'd have a high risk of heart disease. In her other videos you can see her butt jiggle like crazy because there is no firmness to it whatsoever. By all standards, she is fat.

[CincinnatiRedsfan]

@NotJustAnotherGuy First of all, her waist is small regardless. Second of all, the word "fat" is subjective. Some health nuts will consider this girl very fat while men with a fat fetish would classify her as too skinny. Me, I consider curvy and fat two different things.

And by the way, there are NO health risks for carrying fat on your bottom. It's upper body fat which carries the weight. So, no, she wouldn't be at risk for anything. If she went to the doctor, she MIGHT be considered "overweight" by the flawed Body Mass Index scales but not "obese."

[NotJustAnotherGuy]

Her waist is small BECAUSE of the corset training. How don't you understand that? Since you're clearly capable of looking it up yourself-- here's a wasp waist:

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It not magic genetics that makes your stomach not get wide while you get fatter.. its corset training. Educate yourself. And no, it's not just her butt that is fat. It's her whole body. Her body fat percentage is likely 35 percent or greater. And what I define as fat, is unhealthy. And that body fat percentage is significantly unhealthy. Just because her waist is small doesn't mean it's not fat. It's lacking lean mass and made up of mostly fat stores, curvy or not. So whether the word fat is subjective or not is here no there. That's semantics and I'm not interested in that game. She is clearly unfit, unhealthy and overweight (and likely clinically obese). That's why her butt is big. It is highly unlikely she has implants, when you look at the rest of her body and see she is fat all around.

[CincinnatiRedsfan]

@NotJustAnotherGuy Your definition of fat is "unhealthy"? So does that mean someone who is 5'11, 100lbs but has health issues is considered "fat" in your opinion?(Since they are unhealthy"? Not to mention we have no idea what her state of health is. There are actually TRUE overweight people with no health problems at all. You REALLY need to evaluate your definition there.

Her whole body isn't fat. Even if her waist is small due to the corset, she has videos with her belly showing and her stomach is pretty much flat. Her back, shoulders arms look thin too. Her thighs and hips are large, meaning she's pear shaped. If you want to bring in body fat percentage, women are supposed to have a higher body fat percentage, mainly because they have less muscle mass. Judging from the way she looks, I doubt it's as high as 35%.

[NotJustAnotherGuy]

Wow the semantics.. once again. Must I really clarify that when I say unhealthy/fat I mean over weight to the point it negatively effects your health? The stretches you go to sound right are unfathomable.

HER STOMACH IS PERMANENTLY FLAT FROM CONSISTENTLY USING A CORSET. How can't you comprehend what corset training is? When she takes off the corset, yes her waist is still thin-- that's the whole purpose of corset training. But it doesn't change the bodyfat %. She's not gonna have a six pack with her shirt off just because she wears corsets regularly to thin her waist out, if you slap her stomach it would ripple to no one's belief.

Considering a healthy normal weight is is 23% body fat for a woman, I highly doubt she is less than 35% body fat percentage.

www.nutristrength.com/.../...centage-men-women.png

This is just one picture that seems to confirm it, but there are plenty of people who record their percentage and post pics all over the internet if you're truly in denial (though I highly doubt you'll ever research anything ever).

[Izzy2102]

I do agree with @NotJustAnotherGuy the waist can def be manipulated, but it's very unhealthy on every level and I thought people stopped doing it 150 years ago.
But I suppose if you value looks over health, which I think most guys do in women, then that IS something you can do.
Just as much as we don't know if her butt is real we don't know if her waist would be the same if she hadn't worn a corset for years.
And i also do agree she's not lean. I find it hard to estimate when people don't store fat normally, but mainly in one place but I think def over 25%

[BelleGirl21]

This is the kind of routine I expect to be doing when I'm 83.

[CincinnatiRedsfan]

LOL I was thinking the same thing.

[BelleGirl21]

Thanks for mh my friend! 😘

[Levin]

what do you mean, why?

[BelleGirl21]

@Levin... because it's ridiculously easy! Maybe for a mental cool down at the end of the day lol.

[Levin]

You American people are very strong.

[CincinnatiRedsfan]

@Levin It's ironic you say that, since people stereotype Americans to be "fat" and "lazy" lol

[Levin]

You know me, I love Americans ;)

[CincinnatiRedsfan]

@Levin That's cool. Yeah, I don't see that many fat Americans to be honest and we're anything but lazy (we work more than any other developed country.)

Most of the overweight people in this country are overweight.

[Levin]

You say those exercises are easy, but interestingly enough, probably 90% of the population would struggle with them, or at least find them a challenge. I very much doubt the UK, as a whole, is in massively better shape than people from the US. However you do seem to have more of the extremes.

[CincinnatiRedsfan]

@Levin I meant to say most overweight people in our country are middle-AGED lol.

Anyway, they're not that easy but they're not that impressive, at least in my opinion.

[Levin]

As I say, Americans like their extremes. Either to be on the verge of a heart attack, or to be able to lift a tank. Nothing in between.

[BelleGirl21]

@Levin I'm ridiculously strong tbh. And it's nice to finally hear your love for us! My day will be so happy now! 💚

[Klaatu51]

sure... judging by the girl in the video... she works really hard :-P

[maiez]

if you want muscle, this will not work. Just like in the video she has no muscle

[blondfrog]

Well she has a muscular bum you can't argue with those results lol.

[CincinnatiRedsfan]

It's actually not muscular at all. It's sexy AND fat!

[blondfrog]

I was being sarcastic lol

[CincinnatiRedsfan]

I was about to say... muscular? Lol.

[SamuelB]

Whether or not something is effective depends entirely on what your goals are.

[James687]

depends what ur goals are