Hello Dear One!

Ok!  If all is great in your physical realm – fabulous!

BUT if you are either confused or frustrated as to why one aspect (or all!) of you is in a less desired state – this could be the guide for you.

FLAT:

What I mean by this in the positive is smaller, slimmer, less muscle development.

In the negative – underdeveloped, no definition, saggy, flabby, soft, weak.

If you’d like to develop this quality to any given area, use it less!

Do isometric exercises like yoga and pilates. 

Don’t lift weights or challenge your body with resistance.

Let cardio (walking, swimming, dancing) be a way to create an element of tone, but not bulk.

And if you would like to move AWAY from the land of FLAT for any particular region – USE IT! 

Incorporate resistance. 

Or MORE if you have been.

OR more resistance moved FASTER if you REALLY want to create some mass!

FAT:

In the positive – CURVES!  Juicy booties!  Boobs, butts and thighs!  Swell in the abdomen.  Meat on your bones.

In the negative – excess flesh.  Feeling heavy.  Too big for the skin you feel you’re meant to be in.  Big bellies.  Not feeling sexy.  Joint pain.  Tiredness.  Looking older, not feeling vibrant or able.

Do we really need instruction on how to GAIN fat??  Probably not.

So if you’d like to lose some EASILY and comfortably, check out Fat Burning Mastery (5 week program designed to help you lose weight, and keep it off!  Forever!).

BUT if you want to focus on exercise in this endeavor (though please know: A) diet is always Queen, and B) there are 3 other variables besides exercise and diet), then WALKING it is!!

Running, high intensity circuits and intervals can be great too!

They can however build bulk depending on how/what you’re doing.

Weight lifting is wonderful, but again, how you do it matters (be in touch with questions or recommendations if in need), but IF you’re doing it make SURE you’re SWEATING!!!

And consistency reigns supreme in this camp!  The more walking/exercise the better.

BUILT:

In the positive, this is developed, and truthfully I view this as a muscle that is developed in a way that looks and feels balanced.

Muscles that create a look of symmetry, grace, ability, and ease.

JACKED:

In the positive – large, powerful, and well developed muscles!

In the negative – overdeveloped for your liking visually, or for your function!

Often when something is SO much bigger than surrounding muscles, it simply means that we use it a LOT. 

Possibly for MOST actions.

When that’s the case and we’d like to create more balance, we need to deliberately STOP using it, and aim to activate and utilize the lesser developed muscle or muscles.

Our butt (glutes) tend to be one area that is WAY underdeveloped, and often our thighs (quads) and even inner thighs (adductors) are doing too much of the lion’s share of the load.

Waking your glutes up before you do any given thing could be VERY useful in order to not continue to develop already “JACKED” muscles, and to begin to help “FLAT”, muscles get more to a state of looking and feeling, “BUILT”.

Here’s a video I made on glute activation that could be of use.

And if you really want less FAT over ANY particular level of development, check out Fat Burning Mastery.  A 5 week education that could last a lifetime.

Hope this was all useful!

Please be in touch with any additional questions or needs.

 

To getting you clearer on how the body works, & how to make it work for you.

xox, M