Will 20 mina of gluts exercises eveey day get me a better booty?

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Will it make a difference if I do 20 mins of glu exercises moat day for, say, the next 3 months or so?

Depends on exercise. If you go to the gym and do glute-focused exercise with heavy load on a barbell, absolutely. If you do a bit of banded work in your living room, you'll make some improvement but it will be minimal.

It would be a mix of floor gluts with no equipment and squats with a kettlebell (8kg) mainly. At home.

I think it depends largely on your overall muscle tone to begin with. I also think most people underestimate how long it takes to build muscle. So, in three months probably no visible improvement but in a year, yes.

Just do it. Any exercise is better that none, and once you start you can always change it up. Or stop if your booty is unsatisfactory

In order to effectively build muscle, you need to take your sets close to failure. Depending on your fitness level this can be as low as 5 reps all the way to infinity. When I was working out at home during covid, I could easily do over 200 reps on some movements and not be anywhere near failure which was pretty time-consuming and pointless from that perspective.
You can certainly start there but, I estimate, within a month you'd a want a gym membership as you will simply outgrow your weights.

Thank you. I do dance classes and have dropped my gym membership months ago as I wasn’t making the most of it due to work, DC + dance classes. Wanted to do something at home that feels sustainable

Which is perfectly OK and is way better than nothing. But then you need to have very realistic expectations of what you might be able to achieve in three months.

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Maybe not in 3 months but essentially I want to know if it will eventually make a difference as I am lazy and will easily give up if no results!

I think it depends on so many things. I work out all body parts not just glutes. Building muscle takes time and needs progressive overload. My glute exercises in the gym (I do on leg day so 2-3 times a week) are
cable glute kickback on 21kg per leg
hip thrust - it’s 75kg on machine but it’s more like 140kg on a bar because of the ratios of the machine - I do also use a bar just annoying to set up)
standing abductor - 140kg (equip to around 95/100kg on the seater abductor - the machine only goes up to 100kg so it’s maxed out. I also squat (around 90kg) and Bulgarian split squat (around 45kg) both supposed to be good for glutes.

As you can see I’m up to very very heavy weights. And even with that I’m not totally convinced anyone can see a difference (feels firmer to me). I doubt floor glutes and an 8kg kettlebell would make a visible difference. I mean it’s a start but I’d be very surprised if it was heavy enough to make a difference. Why just glutes? So all in all; no it won’t give you a Better booty.

Short answer is no, those weights won’t make a difference. After three months they will seem very light, and it won’t give further improvement.

You won’t get amazing results at home unfortunately.

You need to be doing these types of exercises in a gym, slowly increasing the weight:

Barbel squats

Barbel hip thrusts / Hip thrusting machine
Bulgarian split squats.
Leg press (with high feet placement to target glutes)

You need to be able to do about 8-10 reps, and 3-4 sets of reps. No point doing any quick 20 minute workout.

Agree with you on exercise choices and loading. Technically, 20 minutes is possible of you split your workout across multiple days. Say, 7 days a week you go and do 3-4 sets of one exercise. It gives you on average 25 sets per week which is within target range for hypertrophy. But I'm not sure this is a sustainable schedule for anybody.

there are very good gains to be got from body weight exercises too.

Just start OP - any exercise is better than none and once you’ve established a routine you can try incorporating more weight etc.

If by 'better' you mean the current trend of bigger/firmer, you would need to go to a gym. You would need to build a fair amount of muscle and that isn't possible to do with low weights at home, in the same way that you wouldn't be able to do bodybuilding at home with an 8kg kettle bell.
Exercise has lots of other benefits and is certainly worth doing for your overall health, but if you want to grow your glutes you realistically need to be lifting heavy weights, much heavier than you're going to be able to have in your living room.

Yes this. Can start at home but to muscle takes a long time to built and needs progressive overload. Leg / glute muscles need heavy loads. It would be easier to get nice shoulder muscles with dumbells at home - as a small muscle group can use lighter weights.

I'm no expert compared to others on this thread, but I do bodyweight and light weights (2x 5kg dumbbells) 3x a week at home, and while it's nothing incredible I've definitely got a much better shape than before. So still totally worth it!

No. And you won’t sustain 20 mins a day as you’ll get bored. To build muscle, you need to really challenge them. A 8kg weight isn’t going to do that. And they take time to heal and grow so you shouldn’t work the same muscle daily.
but any exercise is better than no exercise, just don’t expect miracles.

As I said - much easier on upper body / smaller muscle groups. Do yon have good glute or quad defintion with 5kg dumbbells?’

I mean 'good' is a subjective term but they look a lot better than before all the squats and lunges for sure. I imagine it's primarily the 10st of body weight rather than the added 10kg of dumbbells!

Yes I understand that I won’t get a dream bootyshape just by doing that but I would have thought that it is better than nothing? Surely if alternative is to sit on a chair a tiny bit of change would be visible with 20 mins at home, or does it equal to zero?

Glutes are very large muscle. Will it be growing from stimulus? Yes. Will it be growing large enough to notice? Very unlikely.
It has to literally grow large enough to be visible underneath natural fat padding women have around. Think of it as being the same as abs. Every single person on planet earth has a six pack, it's just small enough and covered with enough body fat to not be noticeable in 95% of population.

But surely you start at the lower end weights, and move up progressively. So telling someone those weights are no good at the beginning, if those weights ARE challenging them, is counter productive as they are more likely to just not bother at all?

I'd picked up some 2kg dumbells in Aldi after Christmas, and they felt heavy at the time - I'd been doing a 10 minute pilates or aerobic video since last June, and had added in 2x400g tins of beans! So 2kgs were a big jump.

I started a gym programme in mid-January as part of my radiotherapy treatment - 24 sessions in small groups, tailored to people undergoing treatment.

I think I started off with 2 or 3kg weights in the gym, and am now up to 4 or 5kg depending on what I'm doing. That is in about 2.5 months.

In addition the PT recommended a "walking programme" 4 to 6 times a week, doesn't have to be walking but something which gets your heart rate going and working up from 1 x 1 min rep to 4 x 5 min reps over a timescale which works for you - they say 4 weeks on average to get to the 4 x 5 min.
I've been stepping up and down on the bottom step, as the weather has been rubbish so I didn't want to go walking.
I could never have done a 5 min rep at the beginning at the consistent pace. Now I do 4 of them. I'm hot and heavy breathing after 5 mins, but that is the point.

I also started off walking on the treadmill as warm up in the gym, I have always walked a couple of times a week and generally walk at about 5km an hour.
2 weeks ago I jogged for 2 mins, I haven't jogged for 5 years. Last week I did 2 x 2 mins, and went for a 15 mins walk round the block and jogged half of it.

If you'd have told me in January I needed to be using the weights being mentioned here, I don't think I'd have gone back - as I just couldn't have done it.

(And whilst I have been having treatment, I don't think my general strength was affected by that or my breast cancer - it was just rubbish to start with.)

I picked up a set of 2nd hand weights a couple of weeks ago, 4 x 0.5kg, 4 x 1.25kg, 4 x 2.5kg plus bars with are about 1.9kg each. So I can hopefully use them within my current capabilities but increase as needed.
I also got a set of 4 x 5kgs the guy was selling, which I don't anticipate needing for some time.

I've got 8 more gym sessions, but for various reasons have had to drop down to 1 session a week. I have surprised myself that I have 1) stuck to it and 2) actually enjoy it.
I don't anticipate joining a gym afterwards, but I do intend to keep up the strength training at home.

The PT has given me some full body workouts to do at home.
I've just done the 1st this morning, mostly with 4.4kg dumbells, but calf raises with 10kg plates in a rucksack and tricep rows with 6.9kg dumbells.

Anything has surely got to be better than nothing.

Edit: maybe not specifically for your booty (not something I'd ever say, want or focus on), but for general health, fitness & strength.

Yes - you start at lower end and 2kg are heavy at the start for shoulders. But glutes are a very big muscle, so to grow them you’d rapidly “out grow” squatting with a 8kg kettlebell. In reality for goblet squats, the limiter is usually shoulders. So goblet squats aren’t usually terribly helpful for glutes. Even for kettlebells swings 8kg might be ok at the outset but you’d be rapidly buying new kettlebells.

As an example with a rack I can squat with 90kg on my back, but my limit with a kettlebell is around 24kg. I can manage a kettlebell swing with 32kg, would be expensive to have at home .