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Grow Your Glutes During Perimenopause and Menopause: Focus on These Two Things
Grow Your Glutes During Perimenopause and Menopause: Focus on These Two Things

Who doesn’t want to build a strong, muscley butt? Strong glutes make for strong backs, hips, and knees. And let’s be honest, feeling amazing in your jeans is a perfectly valid life goal. But once you hit your 40s and 50s, building muscle can feel harder than it used to. That’s because of a phenomenon called sarcopenia, also known as age‑related muscle loss. And yes, hormonal shifts during perimenopause and menopause can speed that process up.

But none of this means it’s too late for you to build your dream butt. It’s not a destiny thing; it’s a statistics thing.

Here’s the truth: the stats about muscle loss after 30 are based on factors you can absolutely influence. Women in perimenopause and menopause can build their strongest glutes ever. Your hormones may be shifting, but your ability to get strong is still very much alive.

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butt stuff, workouts, weight training, supplements, stress management, Posture, nutrition, GlutesGary Berglundglutes, glute exercises, butt exercises, dead butt syndrome, perimenopause, menopause
Build a Strong Butt Fast: 8 Creative Exercises to Grow Great Glutes
Build a Strong Butt Fast: 8 Creative Exercises to Grow Great Glutes

Our culture is in a butt renaissance right now, and for good reason. The mainstreaming of hip-hop and the rise of the Kardashians highlighted a big round butt as a beaty standard for women. The work of Bret Contreras in the 2010s underscored the importance of glute strength in athletic performance, and athletes like the “King of Squats” Nkululeko Zane Dlamini showed us proof in real life.

Since 2020, Google searches for glute exercises have doubled, as everyday people try to cash in on the glute strength goodies. In this blog post, I’ll show some of my favorite exercises, suggest repetition ranges, and give nutrition tips that will help you grow a bigger, stronger butt. Consider this your badass butt blueprint.

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Glutes, weight training, nutrition, workoutsGary Berglundbutt exercises, dead butt syndrome, ozempic butt, mounjaro butt, glutes, gluteal amnesia, glute exercises
Dead Butt Syndrome: What you Need to Know and How to Fix It
Dead Butt Syndrome: What you Need to Know and How to Fix It

The recent New York Times article on “dead butt syndrome” certainly grabbed attention, and for good reason—it sheds light on an important issue affecting many of us. It’s a great introduction to the public health booty emergency many are facing, but here, we’ll take a deeper dive into the practical steps you can take. If you’re searching for answers to your own derriere dilemma, you’ve come to the right place.

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Active lifestyle, butt stuff, health, lifestyle, mobility, nutrition, ozempic, weight loss, supplementsGary Berglunddead butt syndrome, glutes, glute exercises, gluteal amnesia, butt, ozempic butt, mounjaro butt, semaglutide, GLP-1, deadlifts