If I go to the gym to build up muscle in my legs will it hurt the chances of getting a BBL in the future?

Dear anekabillizon,
you can exercise prior to BBL surgery. Building your muscles is a great way to enhance your buttock region and I recommend to all of my BBL patients. It not only ads volume to the buttocks but lifts the buttocks in a more anatomic position.
Daniel Barrett, MDCertified, American Board of Plastic SurgeryMember, American Society of Plastic SurgeryMember, American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

Hello @anekabillizon, thank you for your question. It is important to consider the indications of the specialist with whom the surgery will be performed. In my opinion, exercise helps maintain an adequate metabolism to perform surgery. With proper surgical technique, it does not affect the procedure. You can build muscle but ultimately it cannot directly affect the size of your hips. as it does not alter fat distribution or reduce its quantity. Exercise may help with sculpting the area around the hips (such as the glutes), and tights, but it cannot directly alter their overall size. Best wishes! Alan Gonzalez MD. American Society of Plastic Surgery Member (ASPS), International Federation for Adipose Therapeutics and Science” Member (IFATS), Colombian Society of Plastic Surgery member (SCCP).

It's generally safe to continue exercising and building muscle in your legs before a Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL) procedure, as long as you follow your surgeon's pre-operative instructions carefully. However, it's important to avoid exercises that directly target the buttocks, such as squats, lunges, and leg presses, as these can potentially disrupt the fat grafts and compromise the results of the BBL.

Instead, focus on exercises that target the legs without engaging the glutes, such as leg curls, leg extensions, and calf raises. It's also important to avoid high-impact exercises and activities that could potentially cause trauma to the buttocks area, such as running or jumping.

In addition to exercise, it's important to maintain a healthy diet and lifestyle before the procedure to optimize your results and minimize any potential risks or complications. It's recommended to discuss your specific exercise and fitness goals with your surgeon during your consultation to ensure a safe and successful outcome.

Best of luck !

Working out prior to any procedure is very good for the body. Doing leg exercises are fine and will not affect the BBL procedure. If you want to build up the buttock muscles, consider doing squats and even skating type exercises.

Exercise is always a good idea and will not reduce your candidacy for any cosmetic surgical procedure.
Your picture isn’t sufficient to make an assessment for a BBL procedure. Look at our plastic surgeons take before and after pictures and try to take pictures in a similar manner. We generally need pictures taken from 8 feet away, showing your body in revealing undergarments with your arms down by your side, showing your front, side, and backside. Pictures can be cropped, but should include your body from your neck to just below your knees.
Delivering consistent quality, Liposuction and fat transfer results is more difficult than most people believe. The number of plastic surgeons who can deliver quality work on a consistent basis or in a fairly small minority. These procedures are permanent and irreversible. If done, poorly people can be left disfigured. Being bored, certified in plastic surgery with years of experience, and overall good reputation is insufficient to confirm that somebody has mastered anyone single procedure, including Liposuction and fat transfer.
To find the best provider, I suggest patients have multiple in person consultations. During each consultation, ask each provider to open up their portfolio and show you their entire collection of before, and after pictures of previous patients, who had similar body characteristics to your own.
And experience provider should have no difficulty showing you the before and after pictures of at least 50 previous patients.
It’s important to understand your own candidacy and what is causing your body to look the way it does. A BBL may or may not be an appropriate procedure for you. The choice of procedures should be based on having a clear understanding of what the underlying problem is. In regards to the front of the abdomen which is what you are displaying in your picture there are four variables to determine what they have them in looks like. Understanding which of these variables is causing your abdomen to look the way it does is how we choose with the best procedure is. Before variables determine what the abdomen looks like our abdominal scan Laxcity typically due to previous pregnancies or weight loss, excess subcutaneous fat, muscle separation from previous pregnancies, or excess visceral or intra-abdominal fat.
Skin laxity and muscle separation are best treated with a full tummy tuck. Individuals with excess visceral fat need to lose weight. Liposuction only treats, subcutaneous fat.
Based on your single picture, it looks like you have all four of these variables, so Liposuction would only treat one out of four problems.
Since visceral fat can only be reduced through weight loss, that is certainly a good place to start.
Different plastic surgeons will have different opinions. The patient should be focused mostly, and having a clear understanding of their own candidacy, including different treatment options and learn how to vet plastic surgeons through the insistence of seeing sufficient documentation based on quantity and quality of before and after pictures to make the best decisions.
Best,
Mats Hagstrom, MD