Use What You've Got!

Other personal trainers can totally relate to me. “Can you give me a butt?” or “How can I look like you?”. Really???? Now it’s all good to have goals and aspirations but unless you’re ready to work hard and I mean REALLY HARD, there’s a good chance you are going to keep the butt you have and remain looking like yourself, only better.

Let’s be serious…we’re not miracle workers but we can certainly help you enhance what you’ve got and make you look awesome. BUT! You need to accept what God gave you. Strength training is probably one of the best natural ways to change the way you look but if you are holding up a picture of Pamela Anderson, you have to ask yourself what you are willing to sacrifice to get that. (No cutting please!)

Now with your eyes wide open, take a look at yourself and (try your best) not to concentrate on the less than desirables. Instead, see all the great things that others probably compliment you on. These are the areas you want to try and accentuate even more unless it’s something you would rather hide. Strength training is like a sculpting knife and can carve whatever you want (within reason).

By reason I mean, If you have no butt, only surgery and implants are going to save you but we can focus on other areas to help draw attention away from the lack-there-of. Or if you are “pear shaped”, building the upper body will give the illusion of a smaller bottom. It’s really all in the creativity of the workout and the plan of action. What would you change if you had the chance? Smaller hips? Thinner thighs? A butt that doesn’t jiggle? Whatever your desire, it can be done.

Being a woman can be really tough. Not only are we expected to be supermoms, but super wives, teachers, cooks and cleaners but we also must look hot in the process. And although we would all love to look that way, it’s really difficult when society has a model of what that should look like. Embrace who you are and work with what you’ve got.

At the beginning of the post I said most trainers can relate when a client says, “Sam, how do I look like you?” and I say, “you can’t because you’re you”.