Yes, there’s not a whole lot of definition yet, but like I said before, I have a hard time personally retaining muscle. SO, all things considered, how can one ab-hungry gal not fit in this ab series?! I was easily able to introduce it into my already jam-packed schedule, AND as you can see by my “before and after,” I have seen significant improvement on both the sides of my stomach and my lower abdominal region. PLUS, you only do said workouts on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday with Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday as rest days. She gives you a circuit of different ab exercises each day that you complete three times each with one-minute “rest” intervals in between. It was only $10.00 online and honestly doesn’t take much time. Thus, I have just finished Alexa Jean Fitness’s “Sore To The Core” 30-Day Ab Challenge. Henceworth, if she can have those kind of abs, then why shouldn’t I?!
Not only does she brilliantly find ways to workout with no gym, she is a strong woman giving both great ideological inspiration and home workout routines via her Instagram account. BUT, even with all those crunches, nothing seemed to be changing and that’s when I found Alexa Jean and quickly developed a girl crush. Enter: shortly after my thirtieth birthday, I made a personal goal to dedicate 2015 to solidifying my stomach muscles. I say “need” verses “want” as my core has been the main roadblock between me and my yoga fitness goals. With that being said, however, I was still not seeing the results I was needing for my abs.
I’m the strongest I have ever been with extraordinary amounts of energy and an almost-sickening, cheery demeanor. And for that very same reason, I started yoga a little under three years ago and it’s immensely paid off. Now, I’ll be the first one to admit that the latter is definitely the easier task of the two :/ not only because I am a “string bean” but also because I struggle to put on muscle mass. That’s why the past couple of years I have been doing everything in my power to become stronger – both physically and mentally. Hell, I want to be Beyoncé! But it’s important to realize that instead of wishing we were some else, we should instead celebrate our individual uniqueness, our various body types, and try to be the best version of our self possible. What most women need to remember, and for whatever reason soon forget, is that each of us is battling our own insecurities daily AND that no female in this whole-wide world will ever be 100% happy with her body. I think it is so rad how the world has embraced the curvy chick, but somewhere along the way, the message became blurred and the backlash of the slim gal was born. I’m practically all limbs and feel like a frog with pants on most days. In fact, I think it’s called genetics? ) I wore boy’s jeans as a child and couldn’t even bench-press the bar in my high school gym class. I mean I understand people’s concerns about eating disorders, but I’m naturally built this way. I was born this way, folks, and that’s true for a good portion of us. Well, I am here to tell you that enough is enough and it’s honestly not very becoming. To put it another way, it suddenly seems cool to hate on the “skinny” girls. so today, I finally decided to write about something that weighs very heavy on my heart = being a thin woman in today’s society. “Hi, my name is Jenna Pilant and I’ve been thin for pretty much my entire life.”įor the past thirty years, I have quietly stood by while being told that I should eat something, that I look anorexic, that I shouldn’t work out.