Getting that hard body/shapely figure
What is truly the ideal shape for a woman? The sexy curves? The hard, lean look?
My goal has always been to just get lean, tight and look incredible in a little tiny bikini. That’s it. It seems once you train a certain bodypart, that change completes a segment. Then its time to move onto the next. It has been so interesting to see the transformation. Muscles developing and getting defined shows really how much work and dedication you have put into your workouts.
I always love using the term intensity. Anyone can lift a dumbell. But can you lift it with intensity? Really feel the work you are doing? Are you enjoying it? The heaviness and the last few reps… possibly a little pain? ha ha… not into pain, but its those last reps that leave you a little fatigued and it’s at that point that you have to push it harder for the next set. And when you’re done??? Accomplishment. Yes! You finished and it’s onto the next exercise. When you awake the next morning and are sore, gosh… that is the best feeling of working out. You can feel how much you pushed yourself. You didn’t wimp out… you made a change to your body and weeks of this…. pure and delicious progress!!
I will never forget when I was in Costa Rica the summer of 2006 at a resort and even though I looked great (ok… I was an average size 8/10) and wearing a tankini… I was working out, felt good. I then saw women older than me in bikinis. That was such an eye opener that kicked me into gear and I never looked back. That is when I found bbcom and it was such a motivator to keep me going… seeing others’ progress helped fuel my determination to continue to reach my goals. I am now a size 2 and in the best shape of my life. Being fit enhances every part and bit of your life. Confidence, endurance, giddiness…shall I go on?? 
At the commencement of my training, I really wasn’t out to acquire ab definition. Funny, I just enjoyed the weighted crunches and voila’! As soon as I began to lean out more, they began to pop out. Is that sexy? hmmm…. guess it depends on a person’s opinion. I asked a personal trainer friend of mine if I should stop working on my abs. She said "absolutely not". You see, I’m afraid of getting too cut, too hard. Is that silly? The thing is I want to be fit, tight and have strong abs but I want to have a sexy, soft curvy waist. I don’t want to look too hard. I want to be lean and sleek.
The present goal to hit my fancy: glutes. I have been working on tightening those glutes and all that hard work is paying off. I wore a fitted black dress today that I had to keep pulling the bottom down because apparently those glutes have lifted and well, they are slightly lifting my dress! lol. A friend at the gym asked several weeks ago if it was time to be in rap video (lol… the gals in the videos I guess have big booties??) ha ha. No thank you… I don’t need a big bootie… just want to have a tight, hard one lol. Also… cannot get over the fact that I have gotten my quads to get rock hard… omg. To stand, and have them look like I’m flexing, but not?! sweet.
So… when you are doing your sets, push that intensity and make it burn. You will feel the progress you’ve made the next day….and in weeks…. you’ll begin to see great changes and hopefully, some sweet definition.
Keep training hard 
