OMG! It’s ma-booty! I don’t have a backside “before” pic, but judging from old pictures I’m sure you can imagine what that looked like.
My lower stomachs area continues to put up a fight (story of my life) and my thighs still jiggle, but so what! I actually like my legs more than I ever have in my life. It hasn’t been easy getting to this point and I’m damn proud. Have you considered how far you’ve come? You should be damn proud, too.
Bad-assery is the name of the game. The fitness moves that I so strongly recommend for major body transformation will not only change what you see in the mirror. These workouts require a level of commitment, discipline and mental fortitude that will spill over to make-better other areas of your life. Trust me.
(side note: the booty shorts I’m wearing are from Target. Price: $16.99)
As with anything, find your lane and do what you love, but if you’re still searching for the right workouts, or simply need change to get you to the next level, consider this bad-assery:
1. High Intensity Interval Training: This include speed rope, sprint intervals and other forms HIIT.
2. Plyometrics & Other Bodyweight Exercises: Plyo moves like burpees, mountain climbers, ski hops, jump squats, box jumps, tuck jumps, bounding, split squat jumps, etc, etc… And bodyweight moves like push-ups, dynamic planks, lunges, squats, and Turkish get ups… ya feelin’ me?
3. Strength Training: I went from pure plyo for my weight training, to incorporating free weights (dumbbells), and now on to a completely structured system with Les Mills PUMP. I like to change things up periodically to keep the body guessing. However you choose to train, make sure strength training is part of your formula. You must! Losing weight will get you slim, but training with weights is the thing that will shape and sculpt your body, giving you curves and definition in all the right places (like in your booty area).
4. Yoga: Do not forsake it. You’ll keep your body limber to prevent injury and increase range of motion. Yoga can also aid in faster recovery time to keep your workouts going strong. Rodney Yee continues to reign supreme as my top Yoga DVD pick. He’s the man.
Oh, and I recently just had another vision of bad-assery. There’s just something that’s screams “sexy bad ass” about doing burpees in booty shorts while wearing Ryka Downbeat Sneaks. I accidentally stumbled across these online. I want a pair of these shoes!!
I hear the typical kind of chick who sports Downbeats is the one doing dancy-type fitness, like Zumba and Jazzercise. Yet I’m sure these could easily accommodate my sessions of burpees whoredom, complete with booty shorts attire, of course. Now tell me that wouldn’t be bad-ass…
(say “burpees and booty shorts” real fast for me 10 times)
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