A little embarrassing question, but as I have lost 40 pounds recently and 60 pounds from my max… I feel like I completely lost my butt. I am having some discomfort when sitting at work and when rowing. Honestly just feels like I have some loose skin with some adipose tissue that moves around when I am rowing, but feels like my bone (pelvis?) is sitting directly on the hard seat.
Would doing some glute hypertrophy work help add some “cushion”? If so, what would you recommend?
one thing I am going to try is just adding an actual cushion when rowing, but thought some hypertrophy work might help also.
5’8" 37yo M
190 lbs, 25% BF, 37" waist
thanks!
Adam
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Congrats on the weight loss. That’s great! I think we’d probably have you continue to lose weight until your waist is < 34" and in the interim, add some hip thrusts to the end of your workouts to see if you can add some mass to your a**. That said, we normally sit on our ischium (bone) anyway so maybe it’s just something you’ll need to get used to.
Thanks. Luckily it’s time to move to phase 3 of Beginner Template and I see hip thrusts as one of the preselected lifts. Gitty-up!
Would it be useful to add in some extra hip thrusts for the trunk GPP work? My guess is to go for it, as I think the template will only have me doing hip thrusts 1x per week.
My plan is to keep going to a 34" waist, then try maintenance for 3 months before starting a very slow surplus to add muscle. I figure that’s the only real thing I can do to deal with some of this extra skin.
You’re right, its discomfort not pain. Very adaptable, I’ll get used to it!