From Sir Mix-a-lot:

"I LIKE - BIG - BUTTS and I cannot lie..."

BuggieMom: I have the same problem as your DD. Mine are unfortunately getting too big for my small frame, though they're still kinda perky and firm. Quads are also getting too HUGE for those jeans that the Gap makes out there too. It's muscular to the point of BULKY, even though I've slimming down a bit. It already makes it quite annoying now for me to shop at the GAP for jeans... and of course this is on top of the problems with them going "ultra low-rise" on practically ALL their jeans at the store. (I may be going Levi's from now on... depending on what their selection looks like.)

BTW: Unless you have very long legs (as in 33" inseams works well with you...) the House Of Dereon (Beyonce's jeans) will probably not well for you either.

As for guys liking it... well, I guess the only person that counts is hubby and he seems happy with it.

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jazzpants

11-04-2006: Shredded "Pre-Bronze FS for Life" Club Membership card!!!
Silver Moves is the next "Mission Impossible"
(Dare I try for Championship Adult Gold someday???)

Thank you for the support, you guys!!!

My butt always was the largest part of my body, and it was already described as great by guys, but now it's grown some more. Also my thighs have, and I've always had thunder thighs.
But it's all a solid block of muscle so hey. I can't care less.

Bill S -

Good to see you here, too!

Do see Jeanne at local rinks, now and again; gotta remember to give her URL for forum. Perhaps she'll show up here also....

Not much going on besides johns yakkin' away! Even Sling Skate isn't coming around.

Please do!!! I want to know how she's doing and see more of her skating too!!!

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jazzpants

11-04-2006: Shredded "Pre-Bronze FS for Life" Club Membership card!!!
Silver Moves is the next "Mission Impossible"
(Dare I try for Championship Adult Gold someday???)

Thank you for the support, you guys!!!

Hey that's a good thing!!! Really!!!

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Revised Official 2010 Goals checklist
Skate __
New boots __
(lowering the bar for 2010 as I haven't skated in a year)

Skating tightens and strengthens the gluteus muscles, which makes your butt rounder and firmer and keeps it from sagging. Not only does it look great, but since your butt is lifted instead of sagging, it even makes your legs look longer! I took 5 years off from skating and I hated how flabby and saggy my butt got, but a few months after I started skating again, I really noticed the difference!

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"You don't have to put an age limit on your dreams." - Dara Torres, 41, after her 2nd medal at the 2008 Olympics

Her quads don't look too bulky on her now, but they are for SURE more noticably developed than most kids I see, even other skaters. I don't know why that is...genetics? Although you wouldn't say that by looking at ME! I have noticed that Emily Hughes seems to have more muscular thighs than other skaters, so she's in good company!
I took her for some phys therapy recently to try to straighten out her swayback (which makes that trunk even MORE prominant!) and the therapist said that her swayback really wasn't that bad, just that her highly developed quads and glutes just made it *look* worse than it was!

True... then again, my trainer is telling me that I need to work on my gluteus minimus muscles b/c it's the beginning of the core muscles. *sigh*

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jazzpants

11-04-2006: Shredded "Pre-Bronze FS for Life" Club Membership card!!!
Silver Moves is the next "Mission Impossible"
(Dare I try for Championship Adult Gold someday???)

Thank you for the support, you guys!!!

I don't know. Maybe, it's not the same with everybody. My but and my thighs were always flaggy and big. I started doing Pilates a couple of years ago. Then I started skating 16 months ago. Now my butt and my thigs are rock hard, but they haven't become any bigger. In fact, I went a size down on my jeans. Of course, I also dieted to lose ten pounds, and now the clothes are loose, and everybody says I look slimmer. I wish I could do something to my arms too, because they look weak.

Yes, those are part of the gluteus muscle group (maximus, minimus, medius, etc.). I think the minimus are the upper butt muscles, and if so, doing lots of spirals will build them. They are the ones that lift your butt and make it look higher, so they are good ones (now you know the REAL reason I'm so into spirals, ROFL!).

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"You don't have to put an age limit on your dreams." - Dara Torres, 41, after her 2nd medal at the 2008 Olympics

You are very correct about the minimus being the upper butt muscles and yes, the trainer wanted to work on that muscle b/c I had specifically told him that I have trouble with spirals!!! ("Surprise, surprise" as to why I don't do spirals that well, huh??? )

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jazzpants

11-04-2006: Shredded "Pre-Bronze FS for Life" Club Membership card!!!
Silver Moves is the next "Mission Impossible"
(Dare I try for Championship Adult Gold someday???)

Thank you for the support, you guys!!!

I love this post!

Before I started skating, my sister used to tease me about the fact that I had no butt. Now she has to admit that I've joined the land of those with butts!

Luckily for me, since I had none to start with, this new butt is actually helping me to properly fill in pants (no saggy bottom-slacks now!)

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When asked what his "secret" to success was, Wayne Gretsky said: "Skate to where the puck is going and not to where it has been."
Is the figure skating version of this: Skate as if you're doing an axel and not just learning how to hop?

I think a big butt is a beautiful thing!!!!! Nothing makes me angry like a girl with wide hips but nothing in the back! What a disappointment. But, a big and round booty isn't a bad thing at all. Be proud of it!!! The only place I've seen the "skater's booty" is on T.V. I must say that I love it!! But I have noticed that yeah skating does something to the booty. I skate 5 days a week and my butt has grown 2 inches since I started skating. And I've lost over 30 pounds in the process. Now I'm nervous about putting on those skating pants. LOL I have a small waist and narrow hips so it makes it look bigger than it actually is. My quads and hamstrings have gotten a little larger too. But have you seen Emily Hughes??? Her legs are built like tanks!! She needs to tap into those tanks and do triple-triples. So I guess it affects everyone differently, including us guys. Skaters come in all colors, shapes, and sizes. Let me say that this is the best thread ever!!!!!!!

BlackManSkating

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Goals
Pass my Silver Moves Test
Finish Choreography for Silver Program
Land a Clean Double Toe and Double Lutz
Work on Double Axel and Rockers
Speed up back Camel

It's good to hear the guys' perspectives, even if some of them are just giving us skirts the ol' "Whoot! Whoot!" Whoot on, boys, whoot on.

It's wacky the way we pile on muscle in different ways. I wish I could pile it on more like a Kwan or a Cohen than a Hughes. (And people! We all know which Hughes I'm talking about!)

Crikey.

I can't really say whether its figure skating that does it for me (or if its natural...because I don't really remember anymore...) BUT pants fitting has definetly always been a difficult issue... thankfully slightly stretchy material pants are more common now and those help (so I can buy one closer to my waist size)... I really don't like walking around with a huge gap around my waist.

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Tidesong

Thanks Jazz,... now I have that song stuck in my head!

The question should be "Does this sport make my butt look great?"
I just feel "Fergi-licious" all over! Great post, Falldown. I have gathered that skating has proven beneficial to our eyes and our back sides from both "his" and "hers" perspectives. LOL...what could be greater?

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"Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

All I'll say to that this....

BABY... GOT BACK!!! (Yes, ISk8NYC! I know! I'm at it again!!!)

Of course, I prefer the "visual perspective" the best , but this will do.

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jazzpants

11-04-2006: Shredded "Pre-Bronze FS for Life" Club Membership card!!!
Silver Moves is the next "Mission Impossible"
(Dare I try for Championship Adult Gold someday???)

Thank you for the support, you guys!!!

Since starting skating, I have dropped two dress sizes. My butt has actually reduced in size, my legs are lower body are nicely toned.

Great, some may say, but believe me, it isn't.

I have a minute butt and shapely legs, but still have a huge waist, and small chest. So instead of being nicely rounded like a 'normal' female, I look like a man with two fried eggs on his chest. In a skating dress, I resemble one of those cartoon characters with a huge body and tiny little legs underneath. The fact I have short hair compounds the problem further.

And because I've got no padding on my thighs and rear end, skating splats hurt!!

The moral of this story?

NO female is happy with their body shape lol!

S xxx

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That is so not true! Don't listen to her - she looks very nice in a skating dress!

I've always been steatopygic (i.e. had a sticking-out bum), as was my grandmother before me, and skating has made it no smaller, although it's a lot more muscular. Of course, having the figure of a typical middle-aged woman doesn't help, although I'm no longer obese....

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I love my computer because my friends live in it!
Ice dancers have lovely big curves!

Gotta love your choice of word....

Finally, someone caught on!

or maybe I was being ignored for the puns...

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Bill Schneider

All of the stretch designer jeans come with 33" - 34.5" inseams. You just get them hemmed to the right length. If you look for jeans/pants that are a "trouser cut" then they won't be so tight in the thighs and they will elongate the look of your legs even if you have bigger thighs.

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"You don't have to put an age limit on your dreams." - Dara Torres, 41, after her 2nd medal at the 2008 Olympics

i love this thread! i thought i was going crazy because i swear i've lost weight, but my butt and legs have not gotten smaller. my coach/boyfriend confirmed i do indeed have "skater's butt." the good news is more muscle=less cellulite!
i can relate to everyone who says this is not good news for finding pants, if you have a small waist and a nice booty. i also have the same problem as the original poster of being 5'11". i had to buy an XL skating dress so it would be long enough in the body, and then have it taken in all around...except for the hip/butt area! but hey, as long as it's mostly muscle, i think it looks great!

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The skating may not sparkle, but my dress sure does!

Just passed: Pre-Bronze MIF & Freeskate. Next goal: Bronze tests in July.

I never did have much of a butt, however just lately my belly is getting so big I think it has plans of taking over the world , dreading wearing my lycra dress for Bracknell, I think I am going to have to starve for the next few weeks, or maybe skate in a smock .

Hahaha!!!! Jazzpants you are killing me here. LOL That was too funny!! Now that song is gonna be in my head.

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Goals
Pass my Silver Moves Test
Finish Choreography for Silver Program
Land a Clean Double Toe and Double Lutz
Work on Double Axel and Rockers
Speed up back Camel