“Over the last two decades I have seen treatments and technologies for non-surgical butt lifting come and go. These range from effective to a total waste of time and from safe to very unsafe. I have assessed and even tried hands-on all the major technologies and approaches and I have to say that the only ones that work are deep-acting, high-power radiofrequency to tighten and lift the buttocks from the outside and good old fashion gluteus maximus resistance exercises to lift it from inside. Don’t waste your time in money with HIFU, RF microneedling, HIFEM/EMS and especially on any treatment that promises results with 1-4 sessions. BTW, you cannot possibly increase bum size with any technology in this world, so don’t fall for that hype.”
A brazilian butt with gluteus maximus exercises, HIFEM and radiofrequency treatments?
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Lift your bum naturally with radiofrequency and bum exercises | In summary
Everyone wants a Brazilian butt without surgery
What is needed to achieve that sought after natural butt lift without the surgery
Enter the Gluteus maximus: a muscle you can never have too much of
The two-step natural butt lift plan
High-power, deep-acting radio frequency for natural butt lifting
Lifting yes, adding volume no
How about building my butt muscles with a HIFEM (electromagnetic stimulation) treatment?
Natural butt lift: frequently asked questions (FAQs)
In there a natural brazilian butt lift? How to get a natural BBL?
How to get a bigger booty without surgery
Natural brazilian buttock lift exercises
How can I have my bum lifted? How can I have a non-invasive bum lift?
Do HIFEM treatments increase butt size?
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All our articles on bum lifting
Natural butt lift with gluteus exercises and RF treatments: how to achieve it (this article)
BBL / brazilian bum lift and cellulite: all you need to know
In summary
Achieving a natural butt lift without surgery involves a two-step approach: targeted exercise and high-power radiofrequency (RF) treatments. Factors like ageing, poor diet, and prolonged sitting can lead to sagging, cellulite, and skin laxity in the buttock area.
To counteract this, strengthening the gluteus maximus—the primary muscle responsible for the butt’s lifted, round shape—is key. Effective exercises include hip bridges, donkey kicks, deadlifts, and one-legged squats, all performed with sufficient weight to fatigue the muscle. This routine should be done 2–3 times per week over several weeks.
However, exercise alone cannot tighten the skin, which is where high-power, deep-acting RF treatments come in. These tighten and smooth the skin, reducing cellulite and enhancing the lifting effect. Only RF treatments with at least 250 watts of power are effective; superficial types like bipolar or tripolar RF are inadequate. Claims that non-surgical methods can add volume are false—only surgery or fillers can do that, though fillers have significant drawbacks.
HIFEM (electromagnetic stimulation) can support glute training but requires 10–20 sessions for noticeable results. In conclusion, the most effective, realistic, and safe combination for a lifted, toned butt is consistent glute-focused exercise and powerful RF skin tightening—no gimmicks.
Everyone wants a Brazilian butt without surgery
Everyone would like to have a Brazilian butt, yet few would be prepared to go for surgery to achieve it, hence the popularity of so many “non-surgical bum lift treatments”.
Lack of exercise, excess calorie intake, sugar intake, sitting down for long periods of time and normal ageing, all result in skin looseness, the accumulation of excess fat, cellulite and water retention on the buttock area.
The result is a saggy bottom with puffy, spongy skin.
What is needed to achieve that sought after natural butt lift without the surgery
Natural butt lifting requires you to work both on the inside and the outside, in order to achieve best results. Working only on either will produce limited results. You cannot exercise your skin with weights and you cannot tighten up the muscles with a treatment.
“That’s great, but I don’t want to bulk up my thighs in order to lift my butt”, most women would argue.
Enter the Gluteus maximus: a muscle you can never have too much of
The ‘gluteus maximus’, the main butt muscle and the one that gives it its round, lifted shape. It is the only muscle in the body that everyone, man or woman, would like to have more of - the bigger the better.
The more “bulky” and toned the 'glut max' muscles are, the more lifted, toned and round your bum will look, without looking fat.
The solution then is to isolate just the gluteus maximus and nothing else, so that thighs don’t get bulky and the bum looks lifted and round, right?
Correct, with one small proviso: exercises will only work on the inside, but for best results, some work on the outside, i.e. on the skin, is also needed.
Exercise works on the inside, a strong skin tightening treatment works on the outside, and the two meet in the middle, for a really impressive bum lift without surgery.
The two-step natural butt lift plan
This two-step plan involves strengthening the inside with exercise and tightening the outside with radiofrequency - with the two meeting in the middle.
Practically this means combining high intensity 'glut max' exercises you can do at home or at the gym and a strong, deep acting radiofrequency treatment for skin tightening and lifting, which can be done at a clinic (home RF machines are 100% waste of money and time).
Unfortunately, even at the clinic most radiofrequency treatments are ineffective or inefficient, despite all the tabloid newspaper and instagram hype, because the radiofrequency used in most places is either too superficial or too weak - or both.
The only radiofrequency treatment that does work is high-power, deep-acting radiofrequency, i.e. RF that is strong enough and that acts deep enough inside the skin.
Anything else, just doesn’t really work, especially for the more curvy women, who actually need the treatment the most.
And this is why we only use this kind of radiofrequency at our clinic.
Gluteus maximus exercises for natural butt lifting
Regarding the gluteus maximus exercises, things are pretty straightforward. There is a variety of effective exercises, such as:
Hip bridges / pelvic thrusts with a weight placed on top of your pelvis while lying down
Hip extensions on the hip extension machine
Donkey kicks with weights placed on the ankles
Deadlifts
One legged squats with dumbbells or nor and with the swiss ball between your back and the wall
These are the best exercises to isolate the gluteus maximus, without bulking up the quads, which most women don’t want to.
However, if you also want to tone up your quads, you can add the usual lunges and squats into this routine.
Just make sure you
Use heavy enough weight so that your gluteus maximus muscle gets exhausted after each set of 10-15 reps
Do about 5 sets per exercise routine
Do this exercise routine 2-3 times a week
Repeat for several weeks and see your bum getting lifted, naturally and functionally
That’s all that’s needed.
High-power, deep-acting radio frequency for a natural ‘booty lift’
The exercises will provide great results without surgery, by lifting the gluteus maximus on the inside.
And if you want even better results, you can also have a course of high power, deep tissue radiofrequency treatments, in order to tighten/lift the skin and reduce cellulite on the outside, for that coveted 'Brazilian bum' look: lifted, smooth and firm.
Just look for deep-acting radiofrequency treatment with at least 250 Watts of power (anything of lower power just doesn’t work), provided by an experienced, well-trained and knowledgable therapist (unfortunately most RF/ultrasound operators only receive one day's training - and zero training in the science of skin tightening or cellulite).
And don’t bother with the superficial RF varieties, such as bipolar, tripolar, tetrapolar or octipolar radiofrequency, will also be a total waste of your time
Lifting yes, adding volume no
One word of warning though. Despite claims made by many unscrupulous practitioners, no machine or treatment on this planet, except actual BBL surgery, can add volume (=fat) to your bum to create the sought after 'bubble butt' look, out of a flat or a small bum.
This requires the addition of fat, which can only happen with a surgical fat transfer. Just don’t believe the lies / give money to fraudsters.
Of course, there are always filler injections, but these are too temporary, too expensive, too unsafe and overall too unsatisfactory.
So it’s either surgery or exercise + radiofrequency. These are the two realistic, safe options we have.
How about building my butt muscles with a HIFEM (electromagnetic stimulation) treatment?
Electromagnetic stimulation treatments (HIFEM) do work but not in the 4 or 6 sessions misleadingly advertised.
This is just marketing hype and one must be really naive to believe that they can do 30,000 proper squats in half an hour just by lying down - with all 30,000 of them equivalent to the 60-75 heavy duty squats or other gluteus maximus exercises I described above. So it is really silly to pay more than £200 per session for such treatments in Central London (less elsewhere).
So it can be said that one HIFEM session is equivalent to one gym session, with the best results being obtained if you combine both gym and HIFEM. Furthermore, HIFEM treatments do not provide the neuromuscular coordination that gym exercises provide.
All in all, HIFEM is not a replacement for the gym - it can just add to it.
This is the real reality, on the ground, away from the reality distortion field of marketing.
However, HIFEM treatments do add to glute training sessions at the gym and 10-20 sessions do offer nice results which cannot completely replicated in the gym (again, not 4-6).
So at a realistic price point, HIFEM treatments do make a difference, ideally in addition to gym work.
So if we were to ever sell this treatment at the clinic we would sell it at a reasonable price that makes sense for a package of 10 or 20 sessions to be sold, and we would tell the truth to our clients: 10-20, not 4-6.
However, as the good machines on the market are too expensive for what they are and make it impossible to offer 10-20 sessions at a realistic price, and as we do not want to buy a cheaper and less effective machine, we currently do not offer HIFEM treatment for passive butt exercising.
As discussed above though, gym is always superior to any machine and if you have gym membership, it also comes free.
So for us it is gym + radiofrequency - no gimmicks.
Natural butt lift: frequently asked questions (FAQs)
I hope everything/it/all is now clear regarding natural bum lifting.
Below are some straight, quick answers to the most common questions related to this subject, to clarify finer points and add more detail.
In there a natural brazilian butt lift? How to get a natural BBL?
There is no such thing as ‘natural brazilian butt lift’ or ‘natural BBL’.
BBL refers to surgically increasing butt volume in a substantial way with either implants or fat. There is no ‘natural BBL surgery’ or ‘natural ANY surgery’ - the whole term is a contradiction.
Neither fillers to increase butt size are natural or safe, of course.
The only natural brazilian butt lift you can have is to put on weight, hoping that most of it will go into your bum. The extra fat will add volume naturally.
At the same time you must do some gluteus maximus exercises (to add some extra volume too - but do not expect to get a natural BBL with just exercises)
And have some deep-acting, high-power radiofrequency treatments in order to lift the buttocks
How to get a bigger booty without surgery
It’s simple, put on weight, hoping that some of the weight will go into your ‘booty’. And do lots of gluteus maximus exercises, which will also add some volume to your ‘booty’. This is the only natural way.
The other option is to have fillers, which, as explained above, are too temporary, too expensive, too unsafe and overall too unsatisfactory.
To lift the booty do some gluteus exercises and some deep tissue RF, as mentioned above.
Natural brazilian buttock lift exercises
The exercises I listed above (hip bridges / pelvic thrusts, hip extensions, donkey kicks, deadlifts, one legged squats etc) are ideal for butt lifting and they will add some volume to the buttocks too.
But in most cases the volume is not enough to be called “brazilian” butt lift exercises. For that you need to put on some weight and hopefully some of that weight will add volume to your butt.
So they are buttock life exercises but not brazilian buttock lift exercises.
How can I have my bum lifted? How can I have a non-invasive bum lift?
As explained above, the best way for a non-invasive bum lift is with gluteus maximums exercises combined with a course of 6-12 strong, deep radiofrequency treatments.
Do HIFEM treatments increase butt size?
Nope. HIFEM treatments are advertised for butt tightening and lifting, with each session roughly equivalent to one good gym session.
They are also supposed to help you lose fat while in other cases they claim you don’t lose fat (go figure…).
But under no circumstances HIFEM treatments will help you to increase butt size. If someone promises you that, they are taking you for a fool.
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