Why do people always tell you that DLing makes your hips wide?!?

[Patricia]

What is the basis for this assumption?
It is only an assumtion, right?
I mean, I've heard it twice (once from my bf today @ the gym.....I told him getting prego and eating bad widens your hips and he just shrugged)...
What is going on??

[Blondell]

What is the basis for this assumption?ignorance :shrug:


It is only an assumtion, right?yes

What is going on?? read my first answer

[Patricia]

Thanks.
Honestly, before I found this forum I assumed it was correct...well, because I had always heard it from men who were in awesome shape....
Usually I don't listen...but I had never DLd the reg way, so I just assumed they were correct.
Why is this myth out there, though?

[NCfitnessgirl]

I had a girl tell me she aquired wide hips from her desk job...sitting on her ass all day. :funny:

And not from the lack of activity, she meant from the pressure on her ass in the chair.

[Blondell]

Why is this myth out there, though?
I answered this! :taz: :lol:

[Jared]

I love wide hips.

Carry on.

[NCfitnessgirl]

Thanks.
Honestly, before I found this forum I assumed it was correct...well, because I had always heard it from men who were in awesome shape....
Usually I don't listen...but I had never DLd the reg way, so I just assumed they were correct.
Why is this myth out there, though?

I had honestly never heard of it.

[Patricia]

I answered this! :taz: :lol:
I knew you were going to say that!!! :finger: :lol:

[Patricia]

I love wide hips.

Carry on.
I was actually thinking "well, maybe it would make my waist look smaller..so that'd be ok I guess..."
:dry:

[Blondell]

I knew you were going to say that!!! :finger: :lol:
:ban: :p

[absolut_blonde]

I have no idea where this stuff comes from!

Hips are determined by your bone structure, primarily. Mine have always been wide-ish for my frame, even when there isn't much 'meat' on them.

I think they widen during pregnancy? But DLing, no.

[Tearose]

I love wide hips.

Carry on.

You'd love me then :dry:

[magdalynaa]

There is no limit to people's stupidity. This is a classic example.

[thefuture]

I read that doing heavy squats makes your hips wider. (That came from Oxygen magazine.)

[Pandora]

People say that??!

Pwaahahaa!! :lol:

[Blondell]

(That came from Oxygen magazine.)
need you say more? :huh:

[fitnesschick]

i've never heard the dling thing. but i'm not even sure about the childbirth thing. i think they widen while you are pregnant possibly but my hips were smaller than ever after my last baby. course, they've gotten bigger now since i've started squatting :)

[PowerManDL]

Deadlifting makes your hips wider.

[Sarah]

Because they are dumbasses.....I thought your pelvis (for the most part) determined the width of hips. Silly me...

[Jypsie]

Deadlifting makes your hips wider.


:doh:


Don't you deadlift? Let's see those hips!

[GqArtguy]

I deadlift and squat. My waist is 32, my hips are 41 :ninja:

Bring on the curves.