The Fitbit counts our steps, the Oura ring tracks our sleep, now a smart condom will monitor our sexual…

Would you give the i.Con a go? How do you think your stats would measure up to the rest of the world?

Bree Lavender, 22, is one of these women and she says it’s a sign that the ideal female body shape has shifted. She’s a size 6-8 but has a self-confessed “pancake butt”. Having a shapely booty is her main body focus.

“I think you want that thickness to your body, but still toned. I definitely have that flat butt so that’s what attracted me to the booty programs. I remember growing up it being more the thing to have a small booty and frame, so it’s really funny how it’s done a 360,’’ she says.

Instagram has played a huge role in the trend. Lavender is doing Tammy Hembrow’s Build a Booty program. Hembrow is a Gold Coast “Mama and gymshark athlete” with 2.7 million Instagram followers.

Tammy Hembrow

Her fitspiration comes in the form of images of her round, smooth bottom in G-strings and tight dresses, her young son and muscled partner often in the background. Her ‘cheat’ meals (mainly desserts) get almost as many likes as her shapely booty.

There are also plenty of models leading the charge for a shapely backside. Lavender cites Steph Claire Smith and Gigi Hadid as some of her social media follows.

Australian Fitness model Lauren Simpson is another proponent with her Project Booty ebook and 398K Insta audience. “A big booty is currently on-trend. If your pancake butt has you feeling out of the loop, it’s time to put your glutes to work and get results you have never thought possible!’’ she enthuses of her program.

Lauren Simpson

There are several apps for booty workouts including Daily Butt Workout, Booty Buster Cadio Boot-Camp, Runtastic Butt Trainer, 30 Day Butt Challenge, and Ashy Bines Booty Challenge.

Vix Erber, a fitness trainer from Bondi Vixen, which focuses on women’s fitness, says she’s happy about the trend away from a skinny ideal towards fitness and strength but worries about the focus being on one part of the body.

“I don’t have anything against 30 day booty challenges — getting off the couch is good but at the end of the day a holistic approach is the best, including nutrition and total body, not just work on one area of your body.’’

She also blames the Kardashians.

“I believe that when the Kardashians rose to fame their booties went with them. I don’t think the big booty and skinny waist is the ideal. I think Instagram has blown a lot of things out of proportion — literally- and made it unrealistic for the average girl.’’

Lavender says she’s noticed that while her personal trainer boyfriend, also 22, is keen on a muscular, round booty, other men disagree.

“I think it might be a generational thing. The boys in the office were saying ‘We don’t get it, guys don’t want girls with big booties, it’s out of proportion,’ but my boyfriend, he’s like, ‘Oh it’s great you’re doing this program’.’’

source: news.com.au

So, thoughts? Is the fast growing booty craze hot or not?!? Tell us in the comments section below

We also have heard that sex is a good workout in itself and Pornhub has decided to make it their mission to prove how true this is.

They’ve just created a platform to help motivate even the most sedentary into action. It’s called BangFit and it’s exactly what it sounds like. We know that sex is one of the few things that we are all motivated to do and if it’s going to keep us in shape all the better.

Bangfit is a gamified fitness program that allows users to strengthen muscles through sexercise and it’s turning sex into the hottest new exercise trend.The workout consists of players mimicking an avatar on screen performing several actions. The game even provides a calorie breakdown of how much the man and women burn while doing the positions.

To get started all you need is a belt from their website and find a partner.

So now you can get fit while having fun with whomever you want. Seems like it’s a lot more fun than spin class!

The very least this game sounds like a fun way to get fit and mix things up a little in the boudoir…

Watch the video below of the fitness method gyms don’t want you to know about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUFjNiusLEw

Exercise just got interesting. Sexy yoga is here!

In a little yoga studio in the heart of Fitzroy a few weeks ago, I found myself with a curious group of strangers. Looking around coyly from one to the next, we were all here for the same reason — a session of sensual yoga — or as I like to call it, sexy lady time yoga.

But this was no one-off. Yoga came as part of a Pleasure Weekend workshop, the brainchild of Vanessa Muradian — sexologist, yoga teacher and yoni massage raconteur. The idea is for women to explore their sensual side, reconnect with what they need sexually, and feel empowered to ask for what they want — and have fun with it (caveat, without actually getting naked at the workshop, people! Get your filthy minds out of the gutter).

So we whizzed through some anatomy and the pleasure-trove that is the vulva (or the much cooler-sounding “yoni”— the Sanskrit word for it, meaning sacred cave). And then we covered the kinds of things all of us have wondered about, from female ejaculation (“it’s like you’ve wet the bed!” we’re told) to the complex matter of low libidos and our changing sex lives. It was cathartic really to share how we feel with other women — it didn’t matter that they were strangers.

And then after all the talking, there was just one thing left. Sexy lady time yoga.

Cue dimmed lights.

Cue Lycra.

Bow chicka wow wow.

Actually, even though I was half hoping for a burst of Marvin Gaye’s Sexual Healing, the soothing African folk music that was played was just as good — the drums setting the pace for the flow of the class.

We sat up on our shins, letting our hands caress our thighs and wander up over the rest of our bodies — moving faster or slower depending on what felt good to each of us individually. Then on all fours, we got into “cat-cow”, arching our backs and then reversing the pose inward, letting out sighs of release with each breath.

As we repeated the pose, we were encouraged to listen intuitively to our bodies and freestyle, moving in whichever way felt right. Everyone had their own interpretation — rolling their hips forward, back and around, pressing their bodies hard into the floor and sliding up slowly.

The breathing got deeper, the exhales louder. Actually, that’s an understatement. Remember that scene in When Harry Met Sally? Meg Ryan in the cafe, you know the one. It was a little bit like that. Just multiplied by 23 women.

Although it took a bit of getting used to, the vibe in the class had totally changed — from each of us having one eye on the girl next to us to see what she was doing to totally focusing on ourselves. And with every audible exhale, we harnessed what Vanessa called our orgasmic energy.

From there we flowed through a sequence of poses from “eagle”, where Vanessa encouraged us to feel the heat fire up from our pelvis as we pressed our thighs together and balanced — through to “bridge” where on our backs, we arched our torsos up and then on the way back down, pounded the floor with our lower backs which, weirdly, was way sexier-feeling than it sounds.

And then we rested. That energy surging through us, totally focusing on our own pleasure.

Not thinking about that job we’ve got to get done at work tomorrow.

Not thinking about what we need to buy from the shops.

Not thinking about our partners, friends or kids — none of that.

Just focusing on those lovely tingly feelings. And why shouldn’t we be, ladies? I mean, come on — who wouldn’t want a little more pleasure in their lives?

Source: news.com.au

So, would you ever do a sexy time yoga class??? Let us know in the comments section below.