Hip Push-Ups Are the Last Nonsense of Body Safety (and You Can’t Fill Them)
In this article, I am not going to show you how to get rid of hip dips. However, if you’re here because you want to get rid of hip dips, this is an essential reading. Because hip dips as a physical handicap are bullshit bullshit.
(If you’ve never heard of hip push-ups, you’re in luck and in luck and you should scroll further. Please continue living your life, you’re doing it right.)
What are hip pushups?
The human thigh is surrounded by muscle and covered in fat. The normal shape of these tissues often forms a depression when viewed directly from the front or rear. (Another term for hip push-ups is “violin thighs,” if that helps you visualize.) So if you stand up straight and face the mirror, you may notice what looks like a concave shape on your thighs, where you might have hoped. see see a bulge like Jessica Rabbit.
(Jessica Rabbit is, of course, a cartoon, and he is not limited by the boundaries of human anatomy. This is your first hint that hip push-ups are not a flaw.)
Fat, if you have enough of it, can take on its own shape: maybe your thighs will become round, or maybe square. The less fat you have, the better you will see the shape of the bones and muscles underneath.
This tweet serves as a perfect example for clarity. And as a bonus, he exposes a lie: the photo of a woman “without” hips is the same woman who has gaps in another photo. She just poses differently.
It is impossible to “fill” hip push-ups with exercises.
Most articles on hip push-ups will confirm that they are normal and common, and then they will say something like, “You can’t get rid of hip push-ups, but here are some exercises that will minimize them.” This is 100% bullshit.
You see, while exercise can increase muscle, it cannot create muscle where it does not exist. The reason hip push-ups exist is because there are no muscles in that area . Let’s take a look at the anatomical diagram:
On the left, you can see where at the top of the femur there is a pointed trochanter that protrudes towards the thigh. (The iliac crest, which you can also think of as the pelvic bone, is a good six to eight inches higher than that.) The alleged “thigh sag” occurs around the trochanter area. Stand up, squeeze your buttocks and stroke a little. You will understand what I mean.
Now look at the muscles on the right. You have the gluteus maximus behind the trochanter, the gluteus medius above it, the fascia lata above and in front, and the quadriceps below it.
Which of these muscles can you work to minimize hip dips? That’s right, none of them.
What Really Happens When You Do Buttock Exercises
If anyone in this world knows how to reshape the buttocks with exercise, it is bodybuilders. And that should tell you something that bodybuilders aren’t fixated on minimizing hip sinking. Here’s a little unscientific overview of how many “thighs” mentions Google can find on a few subreddits:
- femalefashionadvice: 91 results.
- xxfitness: 494 results.
- female bodybuilding: 3 results, all from one post by a person who doesn’t seem to be in bodybuilding.
If you’ve ever seen pictures of bodybuilders’ buttocks, you’ll understand why. These people compete with building muscle and reducing body fat. They can see where their gluteal muscles are. Check out the third photo of Diana Kado in this Instagram post . She has built up all of her hip and glute muscles, and she still has a sharp indentation on the side of her thigh in certain positions, because what could be there?
What about people who don’t have hip pushups?
Okay, now that I’ve made you question all your previous assumptions about how the hips work, you are probably thinking of some person you saw, maybe a particular photo that you could swear in. that this person has no hip dips. I bet you’re looking at one of the following:
Posing
This is the easiest way to “get rid” of hip holes in a photograph. Simply push your thigh out and to the side, relaxing your muscles a little and bending your hip a little to bring your torso a little closer to your thigh.
You can do this most effectively by pointing one hip towards the camera. The other hip will not pop out in the same way, but this is normal because it is angled and hidden from view. Danae Mercer demonstrates here :
Facetune / Photoshop
Never underestimate what you can do with a photo after you have taken it. Photo editing is a tried and true way to make the human body look like human bodies don’t actually look.
Operation
I hate to say it, but there is a way to literally make up for holes in your hips, and that is through surgery. To quote the plastic surgery website :
To fix violin thighs, you will need fat grafting surgery. This surgery actually involves two procedures: liposuction and fat transfer or fat injection. Liposuction collects fat from another area of your body — usually from the belly or the sides (“love arms”), while fat grafting puts the fat where it looks more attractive.
When fat is transferred to the thighs and buttocks, most surgeons refer to the procedure as the Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL) or the Mini-Brazilian Buttock Lift (Mini-BBL).
I don’t like to point to people and say “this person had buttock surgery” no more than I like to point to people and say “this person is on steroids” because judging other people’s bodies is rude and unnecessary, and because if you If you don’t know the person’s medical history (which doesn’t concern you), you will most likely be wrong in your guesses anyway.
So, are there people with round hips who have n’t had surgery? I do not exclude! People come in all shapes and sizes! But it is completely unrealistic to think that something is wrong with you just because you saw or thought that you saw a person with an anatomy different from yours.