TOPIC: Incredibly insecure about my hips

i'm the same bro. my legs are big probably due to genetics and bone structure.i played soccer during high school which made them even more developed. Usually i neglect training legs and focus on upper body for the sake of proportionality. However, people keep telling me that as a full body exercise, squats "pump" test and HGH through out the body. Obviously I don't want to miss out on this benefit. Is there anything you do that can tone out the legs and increase strength and defintiion without actually adding mass?

Pics? There's a reason why people are so adamant about squats. How you view your body is skewed and if you're out of shape and have fat, it may take years for it to look right as you lose weight in areas that were disproportionate, stretch skin from new muscles, etc

I used to feel hip heavy. My legs have only gotten slimmer (doing squays, deadlifts) and my upper body larger as I hit the bench. You really think your legs are good? My legs are almost rock solid and I wear skinny jeans. Your legs aren't going to permanently blow up. You probably have excess fat there.

Don't question where a routine will take you aesthetically so early on. I think everyone makes this mistake. You can lose muscle. It's not the end of the world if things did go wrong and they became massive ... but they probably won't and you won't regret doing legs

I used to be extremely insecure about my hips when I was 15%+ bodyfat, it seemed like were much too wide for me to ever have an aesthetic male physique.

The most common advice is to do more shoulder/lat work to appear wider in the upper body but one other piece of advice I found useful is to do core/oblique work. Now you might think that will make your hips wider but what it actually does is fill in the gaps of the hourglass shape caused by having wide hips.

The other thing you can do to make a dramatic difference is just cut body fat, depending on your Test/E2 ratio you might have higher than average estrogen for a male causing you to store a lot of fat on that area. Also some races such as mine genetically tend to have wider hips.

For your reference here is a pic of me now at around 10% bodyfat, still not perfect but it looks much better than it did before.

http://i62.tinypic.com/2vmzzns.jpg

dude you just need to hit the weights harder EVERYWHERE.  Build up your back,  chest,  arms etc.  Those will stand out much more and your hips wont be a big deal.

Dude to be honest it's not your hips, its your WHOLE body. Shoulders, chest, arms, quads. Start off doing squats, pull ups and bench press, soldier press. Hit the gym HARD make sure you're sore as fuck the next day or it wont count.