So as a bit of an experiment I have decided to see what adding extra butt and leg exercises can do to my butt and upper thighs. Over all, I am happy with my body. I would be way happier if I had boobs, but there is no exercise for that, so I will just have to live with it. I wouldn't mind having thinner upper thighs though, and I have a weird obsession with wanting really strong legs.
The strong legs thing stems from a conversation I had with a boy I was dating many many years ago. This was a guy I dated for a very brief time when I was in my late 20's. Keep in mind when I was in my 20's I was a very thin girl. I was probably 115 lbs at my heaviest and am 5'6". I was thin but I did not exercise at all. I was blessed with good genetics and a racing metabolism. One evening when I was with this boy, we had been "making out" and afterwards he felt compelled to tell me that he forgot that one thing that he really loved about his ex-girlfriend was that she had really strong legs.
Apparently she was a runner and cyclist and had very muscular legs. How nice for her.
I, on the other hand, was apparently a soft squishy twig girl with no muscle definition who was left with a bit of a "leg complex". Needless to say, I never forgot his insensitive comment. And I never contacted him again after that date. I have looked him up on Facebook and am happy to see that he is happily married. They are also both quite soft and squishy looking now themselves, and not so slim and muscular was back in the day. The shallow mean part of me did a little bit of a happy dance at that discovery.
The whole leg obsession has stuck with me though at the gym it has always been my goal to have strong legs. I am proud to report that I do have very strong legs and I work hard for them. I do, however, still have a small issue with the amount of "non-muscle" I have just around the top of my thighs and under my butt. This is my problem area and I am willing to try any exercises to combat this problem. I am not so obsessed though that I would ever resort to surgery. I don't think I need it and I really don't mind my legs right now at all....the extra exercises are just for fun and to see what will happen. If nothing changes, so be it, its just fun to try.
I have started with a beginning measurement of 21.25 inches around the thickest part of my left thigh and 21 inches around the right. Around the meatiest part of my butt its 37.75 inches. My goal is to get the meaty part of my thighs smaller but the meaty part of my butt actually bigger. I wouldn't mind a big around backside so long as its all muscle.
Tonight I did two little videos, found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5nbFRUa79Q&noredirect=1
and then I did this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vSJM8Qo6-0
Overall, they were pretty good. I built up a bit of sweat but my legs were not exhausted after. Since my main workouts are in the morning, and these were not too bad, I may save these exercises for the night before I do legs at the gym the next morning. There are a bunch of videos on youtube and I want to try various ones and see what I like. My goal is to work out 3 - 4 mornings a week at the gym and then supplement it with these legs/butt videos on Mon/Wed/Fri nights. I will measure again each Monday and see if there is progress. Here's hoping!!!.
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