Does doing yoga tone or firm your buttocks? And does it build muscle in your arms?
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Yes it can. Look at Madonna. she's all yoga
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Where do you live?  I have been taking a class called "Core Fusion" for almost a year now, and it has been the most effective thing I've done in terms of toning my body up (all over, not just butt).  It is offered at Exhale Spa, which has locations in Boston, New York, Chicago, Venice (CA) and Santa Monica - and I believe they'll be opening up a Dallas location in 2006.  \n\nIf you are not near an Exhale, yoga has a lot of postures that will help you tone your butt muscles (maybe check out a local gym or studio?).  So does Pilates (which I'm not really a fan of - I find it boring).  \n\nThere are also the old "standbys" of squats and lunges (you can get added benefit by integrating props or machines - i.e. do the lunges or squats on the Smith Machine - the one that has the bar with adjustable weights that you square on the back of your shoulders while doing the exercises, or stand with your back to the wall, place a physioball behind you and roll it up and down the wall with your back as you squat).  One important thing to remember about squats and lunges is not to let your knees go forward of your ankles - that puts a lot of strain on your knees and sets you up for unpleasant injuries.  \n\nIf you go to the gym, some of the weight machines they should have can be effective butt toners - like the leg/hamstring curl machines.
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Weight lifting. That will build up the muscles under your breasts, though it will not make them really big. For your butt, you can firm it and round it with exercise like lunges, leg presses, etc.
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Agree with pushups and crunches.  There are hundreds of varieties of each.  A chinup bar lets you do chinups, an exercise ball lets you do more advanced pushups and crunches, and a chair (or chairs) lets you do dips, different pushups and different crunches.  The point is to be creative with what you have.  Yoga's great for flexibility and strength (if advanced enough).
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strech more (yoga less pain afterwards)
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i do yoga,and i can tell you it isn't for Sissy's,also i run up and down the stairs and just keep busy.i do some sort of exercise each day,i never time myself,i just work out until I'm too tired to do anymore.
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There is no exercise that firms boobs because they don't have muscle...\nFor your butt do squats and lunges!
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To get bigger you use heavier weights and less reps.  To just firm and tone your muscle, you use less weight and more reps.  This is what you would want to do.  Light weights but do it A LOT.
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My guess is that your hamstrings (the back of your thighs) and maybe your calf muscles are tight.  If these two muscles are not flexible, then yes, you will feel slight pain, discomfort and soreness when doing yoga.\n\nHowever, if it is a sharp pain that is immediately felt and will not go away, then there is a possibility of a muscle tear.  \n\nIf the pain subsides after a day or two, you are just experiencing soreness.  If this is the case, then yes, will frequent practice you will be able to lengthen these leg muscles and the pain should go away.  It is normal to experience a certain degree of pain when first attempting yoga poses, but in the long term if they do not go away you are either doing the poses wrong or you have injured yourself.  \n\nMake sure you take it easy on some days, to give your legs a chance to rest and recover.\n\nIn any case, always remember to respect your body's limitations and not too push too hard when doing yoga.  \n\nNamaste.
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push ups and crunches or curl ups. pull-ups help too. Lifting weights helps more with your arms than your abs depending on what you do and vice versa. And depending on your fat percentage you may want to do something to burn fat. But don't burn too much fat or you wont have much to turn into muscle. And one more thing, low weight and high rep keeps you from bulking up do the opposite if you want to bulk up.
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not really. you can't really build muscles in your buttocks. to get a bigger butt you have to put on weight. to have a flat stomach you have to lose weight.\ni can't really see how you're gonna do it
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Yoga is a great way to stretch but it is sooo much more. It builds strength, balance, and spiritual connection. Yoga is the fountain of youth. There are different types of yoga depending on your goals. There are yoga styles with a heated studio like Bikram and Ashtanga which allow you to go really deep into the poses because you are already warmed up. The style I practice is called Anusara which is focused on alignment so the chances of injury are very little. Check with your local studio and make sure your instructor knows about your ability level and any injuries. \nJust to add to the other comments, Pilates is about strengthening your core more than about flexibility. Yoga is better for flexibility.\nNamaste!
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Do Yoga & Piliates it will increase your flexibility and it will tone your body and increase endurance.
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clenching and releasing often during the day is supposed to help tone and might add a little muscle mass. \ni know messageing helps because my old lady is packing back there more than when i met her, and my hands are well toned.
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Well my friend to target your abs you should fist target your butt, I learned that yesterday in Biology class, then what I do and works for me is not regular sit-ups because they hurt your back; what I do instead is first do some kind of sport that will make you sweat then just continue to do abdominal routines, standing up, just as if you were doing regular sit-ups, because the more you sweat the more muscle you acquire.
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Yoga is about the only exercise out there that will put your back in the kinds of poses you may have been used to.  Hatha yoga is more gentle (relatively) and Ashitanga Yoga more aggressive.\n\nSome of the "basic" poses include standing forward head-to-knee with hands under the heels, standing deep back bends, bridges, and lying face down toes-to-head (if you can) back bends.
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Pull up and chin ups. More or less same work out, we can consider one is the variation of the other. These both are basically stretch your back muscle, namely latissmus dorsi. Of coure it effects biceps (biceps brachi, brchio radialis) and fore arms too.\n\nSkipping and cyling are comes under cardio work out. It checks the cardiovascular fitness to the entire body. Skipping may be avoided as it gives the continous impact to your knee joint which may cause arthritis.\n\nHave a nice day.