When you're a little disproportionate....

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benelson101

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Im 5' 11", 77kg, 22 year old male.

ive been working out (properly) for around 6 months and do not know whether to try and bulk or to cut. Im eating healthily, certainly nothing so bad as to obviously prevent me from loosing ass weight.

My legs and backside are disproportionately bigger than my top half, not majorly bad, but enough to be a problem to me. my top half is thinish and toned, i have ab muscle and only have a little bit of bady fat to lose across the lower 2 of the 6 pack stomach muscle.

But ive not noticed much improvement on my ass and thighs. Ive certainly added some muscle but this has only made them bigger. id like to add more muscle to my top half but am reluctant to do so whilst i have too big a bottom half.

I do a push/pulls split so do 2-3 leg exercises 4 days a week, splitting squats and lunges from deads, good morning etc. I do 1 long cardio session a week, plus 2-3 shorter sessions (at pace or HIIT, all outdoor running so i feel like im making use of a short UK summer!). i had a month break from all cardio up to 2 weeks ago due to a jogging injury.

I really really want to shift the wobble on my ass - in fact that would be the point at which id feel that all this was worth it. if i keep up the cardio and leg resistance work will it eventually shift? do i perserve or change what i do?

i know that the first place fat is stored is also the last place it leaves, but i feel i should've seen more improvements in the time ive been training. ive always played a lot of sport but have only tightened up my weight program and diet in the past 6 months.

what would you do or suggest? it feels like im doing something drastically wrong - help!

thanks for your time, all help is very much appreciated.

Ben
 
What do you do for upper body? I think you need to build your shoulders, back, chest, etc. up significantly, then your lower body will not look large in proportion. That will probably take a lot longer than 6 months...
 
push/pull still, mainly compounds.

id much rather reduce the bottom than build the top half though!

as i said, im reluctant to bulk up top knowing ill be adding to the bottom half as well.
 
There's no way to spot reduce your lower body. If you cut, you cut everywhere. Perhaps you should lower your lower body training volume/frequency, and work the legs once per week for maintenance, while keeping with your current 2-3 weekly upper body workouts.
 
Steve-O-68 said:
There's no way to spot reduce your lower body. If you cut, you cut everywhere. Perhaps you should lower your lower body training volume/frequency, and work the legs once per week for maintenance, while keeping with your current 2-3 weekly upper body workouts.
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i agree with steve, create a full body workout routine for yourself and begin there, and if i were you, i'd start cutting back a bit, to clean out the **** that you probably have been eating, like the junk food xP

and once u reach around the desired body fat % , bulk up
 
I eat no **** whatsoever, so its not diet.

My eating habits are pretty regimental; im not exactly new to all this now so know what im doing in terms of what i consume, how much and when.

And doing a fullbody would mean hitting all muscles 3 times per week rather than reducing leg work, as steve-o said.
 
benelson101 said:
Im 5' 11", 77kg, 22 year old male.

ive been working out (properly) for around 6 months and do not know whether to try and bulk or to cut. Im eating healthily, certainly nothing so bad as to obviously prevent me from loosing ass weight.

My legs and backside are disproportionately bigger than my top half, not majorly bad, but enough to be a problem to me. my top half is thinish and toned, i have ab muscle and only have a little bit of bady fat to lose across the lower 2 of the 6 pack stomach muscle.

But ive not noticed much improvement on my ass and thighs. Ive certainly added some muscle but this has only made them bigger. id like to add more muscle to my top half but am reluctant to do so whilst i have too big a bottom half.

I do a push/pulls split so do 2-3 leg exercises 4 days a week, splitting squats and lunges from deads, good morning etc. I do 1 long cardio session a week, plus 2-3 shorter sessions (at pace or HIIT, all outdoor running so i feel like im making use of a short UK summer!). i had a month break from all cardio up to 2 weeks ago due to a jogging injury.

I really really want to shift the wobble on my ass - in fact that would be the point at which id feel that all this was worth it. if i keep up the cardio and leg resistance work will it eventually shift? do i perserve or change what i do?

i know that the first place fat is stored is also the last place it leaves, but i feel i should've seen more improvements in the time ive been training. ive always played a lot of sport but have only tightened up my weight program and diet in the past 6 months.

what would you do or suggest? it feels like im doing something drastically wrong - help!

thanks for your time, all help is very much appreciated.

Ben
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If you don't mind, would you email me what your workout & diet consist of. Your training times, how often you eat. I would be more than happy to give you some advise. But without knowing that, it would be hard to post anything helpful.
 
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