Butt excercises required for "tunneling"

[afewgoodmen]

I really want to be able to obtain a "TUNNEL" when wearing my Marcuse ArrestMe bikini. It's a great suit.

I do have nice butt right now, but just not enough to get at nice tunnel.

Any suggestions on what I can do as far as workout of my buttocks?

DAMMIT, I WANT A TUNNEL!! LOL ;)

[Byron]

Tunnels* as such do not appear to be recognised on the www but exercise advice for the butt is given, such as http://www.menshealth.com/fitness/butt-exercise, which may help (I always thought plenty of squats were essential).

Btw, why yet another new thread for this? The forum already has tunneling posted by Brent, with a great pic., on 08-23-2013

*the word I have only learned from this forum - it was always "butt cleavage"
to my knowledge

[NJHunkguy]

Certainly squats and lunges !

[afewgoodmen]

Many times I have seen that the original topics tend to "tangent" off and turn into discussions not related to the original posting.

I figure it's just better to start fresh ;)

[Torchwatch]

If you stand with your legs straight and your knees locked, your ankles together and your feet pointing outwards, and your hips forward and locked; you will find that you can hold a credit card between your buttocks. This is the wrong posture for tunnelling, you need something more fluid and relaxed.
Move your feet apart and point them inwards, bend your knees, unlock your hips and let them slide back a bit, and arch your back. You are now in a Tai Chi position in which you feel relaxed and can react to any attack, but looking in the mirror you should present a nice tunnel.
Any exercises that slims your waist and muscles your abdomen will improve your appearance, the arched back moving down into the rounded bottom gives a sensous effect (if the waist is slim), especially in low cut speedos.

[Byron]

This is a tricky subject and I agree that posts in threads often wander off into wider territories which go well beyond the original title (as this is a SPEEDO forum something I know which annoys Louis for one).
I do not think this is necessarily a bad thing to be banned however , as the opportunity may be lost to learn something of associated interest (which I have enjoyed on many occasions).

In his short period of membership afewgoodmen has produced 131 posts and 30 new threads - and I would suggest that unnecessary repetition of new threads (even if "start fresh" is considered appropriate) is going to cause considerable confusion, now and in the future.

As an historical note the old speedofantasyboard comprised completely random posting but Mike revamped everything to conform with all other discussion websites on the internet and the various forums are now incorporated as we see - and have (hopefully) become accustomed to by now.
This will be nothing surprising to recent new members but older members will know that there was no previous categorisation and there was some scepticism as to the changes and a lack of freedom to post at the time (and sadly, some loss of regular contributors along with that).

It is now November 2013 so some website statistics after two years of operation:

Membership is now 723
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(of which 526 are from the speedo chat forum alone and taking three pages to list)

[Torchwatch]

This thread is not off topic, it is about how to modify the body to conform to the style of a swim suit designed for an oriental body type.

[afewgoodmen]

If you stand with your legs straight and your knees locked, your ankles together and your feet pointing outwards, and your hips forward and locked; you will find that you can hold a credit card between your buttocks. This is the wrong posture for tunnelling, you need something more fluid and relaxed.
Move your feet apart and point them inwards, bend your knees, unlock your hips and let them slide back a bit, and arch your back. You are now in a Tai Chi position in which you feel relaxed and can react to any attack, but looking in the mirror you should present a nice tunnel.
Any exercises that slims your waist and muscles your abdomen will improve your appearance, the arched back moving down into the rounded bottom gives a sensous effect (if the waist is slim), especially in low cut speedos.

So are you saying that this guy in the pic has a "fluid and relaxed" butt?

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8517/8349696934_c14f7eb5a1_o.jpg

*source -- Byron :)

[Torchwatch]

Yes, both fluid and relaxed, also note the arched back and the sensual lines. He is not some ass clencher that can crack nuts.

[Byron]

The two words apply to the first line of post#4 - no suggestion that the muscle fluidity and relaxation proposal is inappropriate to this thread.

[Torchwatch]

Actor David Suchet had to prepare for the role of Hercule Poirot, by gripping a small coin between his buttocks he was able to perfect the "mincing walk" required for the character. If you intend to practice tunnelling, don't keep your change back there.

[sebbie]

The glutes play a key role in practically any kind of leg movement, and thus are subject to toning from practically any exercise that works the lower body. The size of one's glutes is to a certain degree, genetically determinined, but that is also true of any other muscle in the body. Some people even without a lot of exercise are going to naturally have bigger, more muscular glutes.

The real issue is not size per se but rather the degree of toning. If you are not exercising your lower body, the glutes grow soft and flabby, and you end up with a layer of fat over the top and an unattractive looking rear end.

I always thought my glutes were rather small, and, as a teenager I admired the guys who could fill out the rears of their jeans better than I could. That was a period of time when tight-fitting butt-focused jeans were all the rage among teen boys my age.

But as I have grown older, I am rather happy things worked out the way they did. The guys I went to school with that had the good-looking butts as teenagers now mostly don't look so good. Meanwhile, I have been exercising a lot and still have this undersized but now-toned butt. Each glute fits in the palm of my hand. That allows me to run the sily but really fun experiments I have been doing with the little Seobean and Aqux swimsiuts, If I were bigger back there, I could not pull those stunts

No, I will never have a protruding butt shaped like some of the twenty-somehing swimmers whose pictures we see posted here. I was never genetically programmed for that. But then, those "tunneling" guys dont have the genes necessary to fiti into a little Aqux or Seobean suit like those Asian guys in the photos do. Which looks cooler is not easy to say.

My exercises include not only stationary rowing but leg presses and leg lifts using weights. I am not a runner or a cyclist, but that is fine with me, and that might work as well.

I think the rule here is to simply work with what you have been given genetically, both literally and figuratively. Butts come in many shapes and sizes, and no single shape or size would necessarily somehow be considered ideal.

FWIW, women worry more about this even than med do. Most women would prefer that their butts be smaller not largers, also to look good in really snug jeans which are all the rage among women currently, but then J. Lo has never let her oversized butt slow her career. Indeed, it might be the "base" of her success in the movies and on stage.

A preoccupation with butt size is part of what I am sensing as a rather new (at least for the US) emphasis on maintinging and lowering body weight for both men and women. After 20 years of the US population rapidly growing on average more and more obese, things are finally settling down and people are starting to get interested in getting to and maintaining an ideal weight. Part of this is that we are seeing more and more clothing for men with designs that emphasize the physique of a toned body as opposed to designs that are made to hide body fat.

One other thing I have done is bought a good-quality digital scale. Then I have been daily recording my body weight on a big spreadsheet to 0.2 lb. I now have 2 1/2 years of data. Today's weight? 147.6 lbs. I've discovered that my weight over long periods of time remains pretty stable. THe lowest number I have recorded is 145.4 and the highest is 155.6 over the 2 1/2 year period.

Of course part of this is maintaining healthy eating habits too. Interestingly, my diet is not that strange. I still eat some fast food, for examplebut just order the smaller portions, smaller burgers and 12 ounce not 24 ounce soft drinks! The sugar quickly gets burned on the rowing machine!

Sebbie