How the hell is it possible to look like this woman??

[Tangled59]

OK I qas having that Sunday sadness feeling and now I'm feeling casually pissed off and jealous because I went on FB and an ad popped up featuring this woman (Tammy Hemsomething apparently).

How is it possible to look like this?! What I mean is is this the result of just working out or what? But how can she get her body fat down so low for the waist, but not on her bum or tits?!

@Tangled59 You can have a body like this if you just put the effort in to learn Photoshop...

Could be worse. Freelee the banana girl - that’s some weird shit

No one would dare make such terrible comments if it was a photo of an over weight person that had been posted

Agree. It's terrible that some women think it's ok to post offensive comments about another woman like this.

It's jealousy. Pure and simple.

In some ways maybe this new "super curvy fit and toned" ideal is more dangerous than the super skinny ideal of the 90s/00s.

At least back then people just dieted and got on with other stuff.

Now its clean diets, targeted workouts and surgery?

@Tangled59 I’ve been squatting heavy for years (naturally fairly petite but curvy shape, as in widish hips) and no they will not get you a bum like this, sorry! I still have no idea how you achieve such growth outwards but I believe you have to do specific target exercises rather than big compound lifts, although they are great for all round strength.

it does seem quite odd to be so fixated on your body and to post pictures of it on social media looking for affirmation. That doesn't seem healthy

If i was making the money she is earning, I would quite my day job and do just that! no, I don't remotely look like that, and the cheesecake I am currently pigging is not going to help

not picking on you, it's just a reply about the selfie-attitude, it's different when it's a business.

Does squatting not damage your knees long term?

bluntness Yep without a doubt. And the poster who said she would rather be over weight than look this??

It’s their job, their body is their advertisement and marketing so of course they will look like this along with lighting and angles. Indeed, many fitness women will post the same photo and show the different it can make and it’s amazing the difference the angle will make.

tangled Follow Emily Skye, she is lovely and also looked this despite having just had a baby.

Maybe the tits are real but that ass is so out of proportion. Surgery deffo

How is suggesting and inspiring people to exercise dangerous?

"strong is the new skinny" is a great message - haters are just too lazy to follow it, but have enough energy to bitch about it because they are jealous. Folks who really don't care do just that, don't care and don't bitch.

We do need this to stop the "proud to be fat" attitude also fashionable, that one is very dangerous.

@Grandmaswagsbag
Woohoo! Advice from a workout woman!

I'm too scared to use the weights so I'm using the machines for the time being and there are a few that seem ti really target in on your glutes. One is basically you standing and kicking back a weighted pedal until your leg is fully extended, you can really feel it. But yeah, it's just....her glutes look so BIG, not just round and hard, you know? Thats what Im wondering. Because there cant actually be much fat on her arse. So its all muscle. But as you say, you can get that muscle to round up and become rock hard, but can you get it to actually.....swell???!

Does squatting not damage your knees long term?

simple answer is no.

Unless you use ridiculous weights possibly.

There are exercises you can do to build up your booty like that and I'm sure she spends a lot of time doing them, but a big chunk of it is the angle she's standing at and I honestly wouldn't be at all surprised if there was some surgery.

ikeep you've quoted me more than once...

I do not want my daughter to aspire to anything other than the best she can be of herself.

Your opinions of others are quite rude.

I'm sick of this self absorbed selfie culture with manipulated pictures or false ideals for women being mainstream. I'm all for women to be the best they can be and inspire other women without this posed, pouting media shitstorm that is now perceived as normal.

@ BellaJessica not if you do it correctly and increase weight sensibly As your strength grows. It’s a great exercise and has improved my overall strength greatly. I don’t even do abs/back work any more as squatting covers it all. I’m guessing certain conditions would prevent some people doing them safely though.

BellaJessica no, not when done correctly.

Grandma Bret Contreras has made a living out of promoting glute-specific exercises: mainly variants on heavy and/or banded glute bridges and hip thrusts, but some other stuff too. I've been doing both for a while and my arse is still distinctly underwhelming (though I have put a few kilos on my one rep squat max, which was the main reason I started them)

I'm sick of this self absorbed selfie culture with manipulated pictures or false ideals for women being mainstream. I'm all for women to be the best they can be and inspire other women without this posed, pouting media shitstorm that is now perceived as normal.

This.

Nobody looks like that naturally and quite frankly I can't understand why anybody would want to.

Photoshop, surgery, probably both.

I don't know why there's the fixation on him implants. It is possible to get a bum like that with a lot of weights and the correct genetics that predispose you to gaining muscle.

I know Arnold Schwarzenegger is a man, but look at him, his muscles are impressive and he is genetically predisposed to gain muscle. The Rock also seems to be genetically gifted in that way as another example. Not every man would get those results no matter how hard they worked, definitely good genetics combined with willpower, workouts and good diets.

Op, I'm not sure your motivation here is as innocent as you're making out. I posted an image to show it was camera angle, and there are plenty photos of this woman on line, and you could easily have picked one showing her looking much more natural.

Tangled yes I think it’s possibly worse than the aspiration to look like Kate Moss back in the nineties. Because it takes an all-encompassing level of vanity to achieve this look.

I really don’t care what this woman does, I’ve never heard of her and I have no interest in her. But I do care about the effect this trend is having on teenage girls who are aspiring to a look that is impossible to achieve without surgery. I have two beautiful, slim, healthy daughters who due to genetics are unlikely to ever be particularly curvy. Already they are starting to moan that they hate their bodies for being so —normal— straight up and down. It’s such a shame that they could possibly look at their own bodies with feelings of inferiority and insecurity . And yes I blame this woman, among others, for contorting themselves through an unrealistic level of exercise, surgery, and manipulation, to reach a level that is unachievable for a mostly whole generation of gorgeous young women. How dare they inspire such feelings of inadequacy?

I’m all for keeping fit, eating healthily and being the best you can be but this is an extreme, that is unachievanle and unhealthy for most.

Sorry, got a bit cross there.

some people naturally just have much more muscle in their arse then others. my friend doesnt do a thing and has one v similar to that.. I gym 5-6 days a week heavy squatting, perfect food intake etc and struggle to build anything, my arms and shoulders however go big really easily.

And I'm not jealous either.

I've gained weight due to a mix of thyroid, inflammatory arthritis and the meds I take alongside being immobile at times have caused the weight gain. I'm not particularly fond of myself these days. I'm no longer me...

I miss being a healthy size 8-10 who ran and worked out at the gym. I can't currently do it and my consultant has told me not to beat myself up.

But thanks for making me feel a little bit more shit 👍🏻

grandmas thank you i will have to look into it. I have 2 weeks to slim down a bit for a wedding lol

SluttyButty
sorry, I don't really read the user names, I replied to comments not a specific person, I didn't mean to be personal.

I disagree that a super fit woman is a false ideal - I am surrounded by enough REAL women, mothers and professional, who also take care of themselves and some who look AMAZING. It's a choice and they make the effort, being up 1 hour before everybody and running at 5am, exercising once the kids are in bed and so on.
Anyone can do it.

In the case of the woman from the OP, I have no idea who she is, but her picture is her business. What's wrong with making money that way? She is not the only one. No one is slagging off Shaun T, but hey, he's a man, so it's fine for him